Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast includes LeFou, played by Josh Gad, as a peripheral gay character — one of the most-discussed press cycles of the film. Director Bill Condon described what he called an "exclusively gay moment." The Russia 16+ rating, the Alabama drive-in skip, and what Disney's measured communications discipline actually does.
Native Americans have been in court with fossil fuel companies quite a bit lately.
Just by scanning the headlines in recent days, you would think an entire gender was on the warpath against Donald Trump.
Immigration reform has been a hot-button issue in American politics for more than 30 years.
Every administration change in DC produces a hiring cycle. PR firms scout government offices for the operators leaving agencies — communications directors, press secretaries, policy aides — and the corp comm seats they fill.
Now that the 2016 campaign is over and the transition is underway, the trade press is writing the retrospective on Trump's press operation. Four operating principles that ran through the campaign, two case studies (the veterans-charity fundraiser, the Megyn Kelly cycle), what will transfer into the presidency, and what may not.
The New York Times reported recently that Facebook has built a tool capable of suppressing posts in specific geographic regions — designed, according to internal sources, as a possible entry path into China. What the tool means, and the broader pattern of U.S. platforms attempting to enter the Chinese market.
Their papers should have been filed (one in 2014 and one in 2015), but they just amended the filing status during November 2016.
The U.S. federal government spends $4.5B a year on PR — three thousand press officers across agencies, six- and seven-figure outside contracts, and an in-house communications corps that outpaces every private firm except Edelman.