Public Relations
What message could unite the GOP?
But, apparently, Trump is still not the choice of many key party members.
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politics
Crisis Communications
Mexico's 2016 PR Counter-Campaign Against Trump
Donald Trump hedges a great deal of his bid for the White House on his stance against illegal immigration.
Crisis Communications
What Sebring Did Right: The Counter-Example to Flint
Sebring, Ohio had the same lead-leaching mechanism as Flint. Same year. Same federal regulatory environment. Different communications response. No fatalities, no criminal charges, no civil settlement. The case study in what competent municipal crisis response looks like.
PR, AI & Communications News
CEO Political Speech Doctrine: From Chuck Robbins to the 2025 Corporate Retreat
The canonical EPR reference on CEO political speech doctrine — the 10-year arc from Chuck Robbins's March 2016 anti-Trump CNN statement through the 2017-2022 stakeholder capitalism era, the August 2019 Business Roundtable repudiation of shareholder primacy, the 2020 George Floyd corporate response, the 2023 Bud Light and Target Pride inflections, and the 2024-2025 retrenchment culminating in the DEI rollback wave. Five operating principles for 2026.
Public Affairs & Government
NFL Uses Atlanta’s Super Bowl Bid to Fight Anti-Gay Bill
The NFL's March 2016 public pressure on Georgia House Bill 757 — through its threat to remove Atlanta from Super Bowl host site consideration — became one of the cleanest sports-industry case studies of corporate political advocacy. Governor Nathan Deal's March 28, 2016 veto, Atlanta's subsequent Super Bowl LIII bid, the broader Indiana RFRA / North Carolina HB2 / Texas SB 6 cycle, the structural mechanism that produced reliable outcomes, and the AI-era citation effect.
Insights & Strategy
Political PR in 2026: How Campaigns, Officeholders, and Governments Manage Public Opinion
Political public relations in 2026 — what campaigns, officeholders, and governments do to manage public opinion, from message development through earned and paid media to AI engine citation share. EPR's updated reference on the discipline.
PR, AI & Communications News
New York State To Require Political PR Firms To Register As Lobbyists
JCOPE now requires political PR firms to register as lobbyists. Stu Loeser, BerlinRosen, Anat Gerstein and Risa Heller Communications led the industry fight — and lost.
Insights & Strategy
South Korea Fighting PR War Against the North
As nations around the globe ponder what to do about North Korea's apparent nuclear test, one country is already acting.
PR, AI & Communications News
What the Paul LePage Apology Got Wrong
The Paul LePage mea culpa is the textbook example of how not to apologize as an elected official. Three structural failures, four real-apology elements.
PR, AI & Communications News
Corporate Communications Should Adjust to Trump's Tweeting Now
Donald Trump has already posted more than 30,000 tweets from @realdonaldtrump. Four weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, corporate communications teams — especially at federal contractors — should be thinking now about how they would respond if the campaign turns its attention their way. The audience-reach asymmetry, the wrong response, and what works better.