Editorial
Who Actually Whispers To The Founders
The named communications operators behind Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Cook, Ellison, and Anthropic — and the founders who choose to run comms themselves.
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OpenAI
AI Communications
Shutterstock From Marketplace to Model — The Fourteen-Year Arc From Lippincott Logo to AI Licensing Engine
The 2012 Lippincott Viewfinder is still the mark. Shutterstock is now an AI training-data licensor combining with Getty at $3.7 billion. A strategic identity case study.
Education & EdTech
The Khan Academy Archive: From YouTube Cousin Tutoring to the Canonical AI-Native Education Platform
EPR's canonical Khan Academy Archive — Salman Khan's 22-year arc from YouTube cousin tutoring to Khanmigo, the OpenAI partnership, the Microsoft partnership, and the canonical reference case for what AI in education actually looks like when content infrastructure is already in place.
AI Communications
Google and the Future of Journalism
Google's relationship with the broader news industry remains one of the more substantial unresolved questions in modern media. The Google News referral economy, the Eric Schmidt public statements, the Rupert Murdoch criticism, the paywall experimentation, and the broader future of journalism conversation that continues to develop.
Technology
The Top Technology Communicators of 2010
Katie Cotton at Apple, Frank Shaw at Microsoft, Rachel Whetstone at Google, Jon Iwata at IBM, Elliot Schrage at Facebook — the technology communicators doing the most consequential work in 2010.
Toys, Kids and Family
Mattel Public Relations: Inside the Comms Operation Behind Barbie, Hot Wheels, and Fisher-Price
How Mattel runs PR in 2026: the four pillars of its communications operation, the 1997–2007 crisis history, the OpenAI partnership, and the Barbie flywheel.
Social Media
The Rise of the Online Community Manager
The online community manager is one of the more interesting new roles in corporate communications. What the role actually does, the platforms that matter, what separates good community management from bad, and where the role should report.