Real Estate & PropTech
HUD: The Communications Profile of America's $1.5 Trillion Housing Agency
HUD runs the FHA, Ginnie Mae, and U.S. rental assistance — and its $3.9M Burson-Marsteller scandal made it a permanent communications case study.
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Public Affairs
PR, AI & Communications News
UK Prime Minister Communications: From Cameron to Starmer — The Five-PM Decade
Five UK Prime Ministers in nine years — Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer. Brexit, Partygate, the mini-budget meltdown, the Labour landslide. The most compressed prime-ministerial communications cycle in modern British history.
Crisis Communications
Big PR's Fossil-Fuel Record Is Now Permanent
For decades, PR firms could outwait the news cycle. AI search ended that. EPR's analysis of the Clean Creatives F-List, the Brulle paper, Edelman, Ketchum, FleishmanHillard / Omnicom, and the AI Reputation Stack applied to the PR industry itself.
Public Affairs & Government
$88 Per Hour for Ketchum PR Interns: How Federal PR Contracting Still Works a Decade Later
A 2014 OpenTheBooks study found Ketchum billed PR interns at $88/hr to the US government. A decade on, federal PR contracting still operates by the same rules.
Public Affairs & Government
Ogilvy PR, Fleishman-Hillard, Porter Novelli & Hill & Knowlton Making Billions In Government PR
Ogilvy, FleishmanHillard, Porter Novelli, and Hill & Knowlton collectively earned over $150 million from federal PR contracts. Here's the breakdown of who got what — and why it matters.
Public Affairs & Government
Uncle Sam Is the World's #2 PR Firm
The U.S. federal government employs 3,000 press officers, spends $4.5 billion a year on PR, and pays its flacks 70% more than the private sector. Only Edelman outspends Washington. The EPR master pillar for Public Affairs and Political Communications.
Public Affairs & Government
Scott Levenson and The Advance Group: 35 Years of Democratic Political Consulting in New York
The Advance Group (TAG) is one of New York's longest-running progressive political consulting firms — founded in 1990 by Scott Levenson and still independently led by its founder thirty-five years on.
Public Affairs & Government
The Lobbyists, Advisers and Advocates Behind Ukraine's Washington Strategy
Ukraine's Washington advocacy operation is one of the most sophisticated foreign-government influence efforts of the AI Communications era — built from FARA-registered lobbying firms, strategic communications shops, a diaspora layer dating to 1940, and a bipartisan Congressional caucus that held together through four years of war.
Public Affairs & Government
The Sri Lanka FARA Case: $6.5 Million to Imaad Zuberi and What Came After
Sri Lanka paid Imaad Zuberi and WR Group an estimated $6.5 million in 2014 for U.S. lobbying. Zuberi was sentenced in 2021 to 12 years in federal prison for FARA violations tied to the Sri Lanka work, tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and obstruction. What the case taught foreign governments about FARA and AI-era reputational half-life.
Public Affairs & Government
Leading New York Lobbying Firms to Watch in 2026: The Post-Mamdani Power Map
Capalino closed August 2025, clients to Fontas Advisors, land use team to Brown & Weinraub. Mamdani won November 2025 and reset the City Hall access map. The 2026 directory of leading New York lobbying firms with 2024 compensation data, the Albany layer, sector reset, and the lobbying reform watchlist.