In September 2025, Sylvia Rhone stepped down as Chairwoman and CEO of Epic Records after an eleven-year run at the label and a fifty-year career at the top of the modern music industry. Three times across that career, she was the first woman and first Black executive to hold a CEO-or-chair position at a major record label owned by a Fortune 500 company. No other executive has done it three times.
Defense communications is the discipline of strategic messaging, public affairs, media engagement, and influence operations across military, intelligence, and defense-industrial actors. The reference hub on NATO, Pentagon, defense contractors, Israeli defense, information warfare, StratCom doctrine, military PAOs, and Five Eyes intelligence communications.
Some of the more telling quotes: "Mother Teresa doesn't need our services.
Steve Simon, who founded SSPR in 1978 and built one of America's longest-running independent PR agencies, died January 4, 2015 in Chicago at age 67.
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In 1933, Carl Byoir & Associates took a contract to represent Nazi Germany in America. Inside the deal, the congressional hearings, and the legacy.
Richard Edelman in year 29 as CEO. Matthew Harrington as Executive Vice Chairman. Mainardo de Nardis as Global President and COO. Brian Buchwald running AI transformation. Inside the leadership bench at the world's largest independent PR firm.
An Omnibus study shares the costs of sampling and screening between agencies and clients to provide quick results at relatively lower cost without sacrificing quality.
GMC, the award-winning leader in customer communications management (CCM) and output management, announced today that The Forrester WaveTM: Document Output For Customer Communications Management, Q1 2014, has positioned GMC Software Technology (GMC) in the leader segment for its solution GMC Inspire.
Axia Public Relations CEO Jason Mudd expects 2014 to be a big year for public relations (and public relations firms). He shared his 2014 public relations trends in a recent blog post on thepublicrelationsblog.com.