Insights & Strategy
PR Should Be the Last Cut from Your Corporate Budget
Your efforts can be targeted to a variety of audiences, covering more generic exposure to almost one-on-one efforts.
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strategy
Public Affairs & Government
VTB-Manatos at 10: The Russian-State FARA Retrospective
In May 2016, Manatos & Manatos filed FARA paperwork for Russian VTB Group at $17,500/month to lobby against Russia banking sanctions. Ten years later, VTB is on the OFAC SDN list, the Russian-state FARA category has collapsed, and the contemporary foreign-influence landscape runs through different geographies entirely.
PR, Marketing, Communications & AI RFPs
Indian Government PR: Inside the Communications Discipline Behind the World's Largest Democracy
Indian government PR is a $1B+ discipline across central ministries, state governments, PSU communications, and PFRDA-class regulator outreach. The operating model behind the world's largest democracy's communications work.
Editorial
Donor Recognition or Naming Rights in National Parks?
New guidelines are being established currently regarding donor recognition.
Insights & Strategy
Drake University's Manning, Iowa Partnership: A Student-Run PR Firm Case
Drake University's 2016 Manning, Iowa partnership — full destination marketing for a 1,400-person Carroll County town. The student-run PR firm template.
Multicultural Marketing & DEI
Gays in Texas: The LGBTQ+ Economy Inside the Lone Star State
Texas has the second-largest LGBTQ+ population in the United States — roughly 940,000 adults — concentrated in Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. The state-vs-city communications gap, the metro economies, and the business case.
Higher Education Communications
University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication — established 1924. Research foundation, strategic communication track, Midwest market concentration, and the AI-era curriculum question every research-grounded journalism school now faces.
Insights & Strategy
The Expanding Role of PR Representing Government Agencies
PR representing government agencies has expanded from one-off contract communications into permanent infrastructure. Federal, state, and municipal agencies now run dedicated comms teams plus outside firms on specialty mandates.
Crisis Communications
Inside the Flint Lobbying Ecosystem: Who Spent What in Washington
By spring 2016, Flint was a Washington story. Two dozen lobbying entities, $220M in WRDA, Dan Kildee's $800M package, and the $15B lead-pipe replacement provision that ultimately followed.
Public Relations
What message could unite the GOP?
But, apparently, Trump is still not the choice of many key party members.