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.
Florida's Communications State \u2014 23M residents, 142M visitors, $1.6T economy, $130B tourism, 700K migrants. Visit Florida, the regional CVBs, the political communications environment, hurricane response, and the Florida agency landscape that serves the state's institutional clients.
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.
Founded in 2003 by Helene Solomon and later joined by Daniel F. Cence, Solomon McCown & Cence is a Boston-based PR firm at the intersection of business and public policy \u2014 healthcare, real estate, education, and public affairs.
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.
Navy Recruiting Command rebuilt its brand after the 2022 miss and hit its 40,600-sailor target a year early. Inside the Forged by the Sea rebuild, eligibility reforms, recruiter enablement, and the Gen Z playbook the rest of the U.S. military is now copying.
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.
Google has announced new restrictions on political advertising microtargeting that substantially narrow what political campaigns can do. The combined Google restrictions land alongside Twitter's October ban. What the new Google policy actually does, the comparison with Twitter and Facebook, and the 2020 election cycle implications.
OPIC became the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation in October 2019. The BUILD Act doubled U.S. development finance capacity to $60B and added equity authority — the largest mandate expansion in U.S. DFC history.