Entertainment & Media
Real Housewives Arrests: Bravo's Crisis-PR Pattern
Teresa Giudice in 2014. Jen Shah in 2022. Plus a long roster. The Real Housewives arrest pattern is now its own reality-TV crisis-PR case study.
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Corporate Communications
NASCAR Safety Communications: From Earnhardt to the Modern Sanctioning Era
NASCAR rebuilt its safety communications architecture from the 2001 Earnhardt response onward. Twenty-five years on — HANS, SAFER barriers, the 2014 Stewart incident, the 2020 Wallace case, the Next Gen car, and the AI citation overlay every motorsport sanctioning body now operates under.
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.
PR, AI & Communications News
Boston Public Relations: Market Briefing, Leading Firms, and Sector Dynamics
Here are a few current PR news stories you might find interesting:.
Insights & Strategy
Uber's Customer Relations Rebuild — From Kalanick Crisis to Khosrowshahi Trust
In 2017 Uber's customer relations collapsed. #DeleteUber, a viral video of CEO Travis Kalanick berating a driver, sexual-harassment allegations across the company. By 2024, Uber's brand health had recovered. The rebuild — leadership change, transparency reports, and the disciplines that worked.
Entertainment & Media
How Maria Sharapova Owned the Doping Crisis
Sharapova self-announced the meldonium positive in March 2016. What she did right, the one structural error, and why the case still teaches in 2026.
Insights & Strategy
Marketing of Nootropics: Onnit Alpha Brain and More
Nootropics are also referred to as memory enhancers, cognitive enhancers, smart drugs, neuro enhancers, and intelligence enhancers.
Insights & Strategy
When Buried Abuse Catches Up With An Institution: The Penn State Lesson
The Penn State institutional cover-up pattern — what happens when boards prioritize brand protection over external reporting. The operational lesson that every board, university, and major employer has had to absorb.
Insights & Strategy
London PR's Two-Decade Climb Toward Livery Company Status
London's Livery Companies are the oldest continuously operating trade-recognition system in the Western world. Public relations spent two decades trying to get in. The Guild of Public Relations Practitioners — motto, Influence, Integrity, Trust — was promoted to Company without Livery in 2013 and continues the slow institutional climb.
Crisis Communications
The Erin Andrews Case: How Victim-Side Reputation Won The Story
A sportscaster is filmed nude through an altered hotel peephole. The video goes viral. Eight years later, a Nashville jury awards her $55 million and ESPN's takedown letter becomes a template studied inside every reputation-management practice. The Erin Andrews case, as celebrity and media case study.