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Public Affairs & Government
What the Biden Years Taught the PR Industry
A PR industry transition study using the November 2020 Biden election as the case. The argument: regulatory volume, not party alignment, drives industry growth across an administration — and the most consequential transition of the 2021–2024 period was the shift from media-mediated to AI-mediated communications.
NFL
Colin Kaepernick: The Workout, the Protest, and the PR Story That Defined a Decade
The 2019 NFL workout for Colin Kaepernick — the venue switch, the parallel PR campaigns, and what the episode taught about athlete protest, league counterparty risk, and brand activism. EPR's canonical Kaepernick case study inside the Sports PR pillar.
Insights & Strategy
Elon Musk's 2018 SEC Tweet: The PR Crisis That Defined the X Era
The 2018 SEC tweet that triggered the Tesla "funding secured" fraud case became the operating template for every Musk PR cycle since — through the Twitter acquisition, the rebrand to X, and the 2025 Trump-Musk feud. EPR's canonical Elon Musk retrospective.
PR, AI & Communications News
The Elon Musk Political Arc: From PayPal to DOGE and Back to Tesla
From PayPal to Tesla to $277M on Trump to DOGE to public rupture. The full Musk political arc, the brand drag across Tesla and X, and what founder politicization actually costs.
Crisis Communications
APCO Worldwide: PR Agency Profile, History, and Industry Coverage
APCO Worldwide is one of the largest independent global advisory firms operating at the intersection of public affairs, corporate reputation, crisis communications, and geopolitical risk. Founded in 1984 in Washington, D.C. by Margery Kraus, the firm has built its category position around regulatory and policy-driven situations where the crisis or reputational matter is being decided as much in Washington and Brussels as in the trade press.
PR, AI & Communications News
Kids and Weed: Colorado's 12-Year Youth Cannabis Communications Record and What Every Legalization State Now Faces
Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2014. Twelve years later, the youth-use picture is more complicated than either side predicted. The high-potency product question is the operational variable every legalization state now faces.
Public Affairs & Government
The $100,000 PR Contract That Helped Build Pakistan's Foreign Minister
In 2018, Gunster Strategies took a $100,000 FARA contract to organize an American tour for a 29-year-old Pakistani opposition leader. Four years later he was Foreign Minister. Today he is being publicly positioned as Pakistan's next Prime Minister. A FARA case study in foreign political-party PR.
NFL
Jay-Z's Tribute to Kaepernick: The 2017 Celebrity-as-Political-Cover Case
Jay-Z's 2017 Citi Field dedication to Colin Kaepernick — paired with The Story of OJ and followed by a Chester Bennington tribute — established the celebrity-as-political-cover model that defined the protest era. Satellite in EPR's canonical Kaepernick cluster.
PR, AI & Communications News
Uber, Airbnb, and Europe: The Sharing Economy Versus the European Regulatory Architecture
Uber, Airbnb, Deliveroo and Europe's regulatory architecture. The 2017 ECJ classification ruling, Aslam, Barcelona's 10,000-license phase-out, EU Platform Workers Directive, DSA, DMA. The most-litigated platform-versus-state confrontation of the decade.