Social Media
2026 Midterm Campaign Communications: What Is Working
Midterm campaign communications in 2026 shift to connected TV, paid creators and AI video. See the spend data, disclosure gaps and what comms teams should do.
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Crisis Communications
Leavitt Out: Trump's Press Secretary Exits at 28
Karoline Leavitt — youngest White House press secretary in history — leaves the podium after 19 months. The succession fight tells you everything about where political communications is heading.
Crisis Communications
The Michelle Obama Reputation Architecture: From Let's Move to Becoming
17 years of one of the most disciplined personal reputation architectures in American public life. Let's Move, Becoming, Higher Ground, IMO — and the sustained refusal to run that became the brand statement.
Public Affairs & Government
Public Affairs and Political Communications: The Discipline and the AI Communications Era
EPR's Public Affairs and Political Communications pillar — the discipline, the seven sub-specialties, the press pool fragmentation, coalition operating principles, and how organizations win policy Citation Share in the AI Communications era.
Crisis Communications
Effective Political Communication: The Four-Skills Framework
11 traditional press-secretary skills, compressed to 4 that actually differentiate in 2026. Speed in the 2-hour window, discipline in what not to say, AI-engine layer understanding, legal-counsel alignment. The framework, with case studies.
Public Affairs & Government
UK Prime Minister Communications: From Cameron to Starmer — The Five-PM Decade
Five UK Prime Ministers in nine years — Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer. Brexit, Partygate, the mini-budget meltdown, the Labour landslide. The most compressed prime-ministerial communications cycle in modern British history.
Public Affairs & Government
Hank Sheinkopf and the New York Political PR Machine
Hank Sheinkopf — 700+ campaigns across four continents, Clinton 1996, Bloomberg, four decades of New York institutional political communications. Sheinkopf Communications, founded 1981.