Federal lobbying spending hit $4.4B in 2024. The discipline is integrating — registered lobbying, earned media, coalition validators, and AI-visibility research inside a single operation. EPR's intelligence layer for government relations and lobbying.
The AI policy landscape is rapidly evolving across multiple jurisdictions, including Brussels, Sacramento, and Washington. This playbook details the challenges and strategies for public affairs in this complex environment, emphasizing the need for adaptable approaches beyond traditional federal-focused strategies.
Lobbying without communications increasingly underperforms. A 2008-era K Street firm could move a bill with 14 meetings and a check. The 2026 firm typically needs all of that plus earned media, coalition validators, hearing preparation, parallel state pressure, and measurable pre
Public affairs has gone global.Climate policy, digital regulation, public health, trade, migration—these issues cross borders. They demand coordination, alignment, and shared narratives.But the campaigns that shape them?They are still deeply local.Over the past year, some of the…
Discover how effective government relations differs from lobbying through transparent, evidence-based statecraft that strengthens democracy and policy outcomes.
How BP broke public affairs PR — the $65 billion Deepwater Horizon response that turned an industrial catastrophe into the canonical case study in opacity, tone-deaf leadership, and weak stakeholder engagement. Inside EPR's Public Affairs pillar.
Originally published February 2023 on the post-FTX-collapse crypto regulatory environment. Rebuilt June 2026 as EPR's reference on the 2026 crypto regulatory landscape — the SEC enforcement cycle, the spot Bitcoin ETF approvals, the 2024 election reset, the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and the EU MiCA implementation.
Political PR and public-affairs playbook — what SKDK, Bully Pulpit, Precision Strategies, GMMB, and Mercury actually do to build campaign credibility, plus where political PR breaks in the AI-information era.
23M residents, 142M visitors, $1.6T economy, 700K net migration, sustained political intensity, the Disney conflict, hurricane response architecture, and the insurance market reset. The Florida Communications State at full specification.
The Global Situation Room (GSR) is a Los Angeles-based public affairs consulting firm founded circa 2016 by Johanna Maska, former Director of Press Advance for President Obama (2008-2015, traveled to 40+ countries). Currently 10th anniversary. Specialty: crisis and reputation management, public affairs, global strategy. Operates Situation Room Studios podcast division. Publishes annual public affairs and reputation indexes. Maska is a NewsNation contributor.