Florida's Communications State — 23M residents, 142M visitors, $1.6T economy, $130B tourism. Visit Florida, the regional CVBs, the political communications environment, hurricane response, and the agency landscape serving the state's institutional clients.
Founded in 2014 by Alex Slater, Clyde Group (now CLYDE) is a Washington, DC-based communications and public affairs firm. Named America's Best Boutique Agency by PRovoke in 2021 and 2022. ~58 employees, ~$6M revenue.
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 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.
They're often connected with issue advocacy campaigns, crisis communications, and government relations, as well as public land use management too.
EPR's mid-era profile of APCO Worldwide — the post-2004 independent rebuild under Margery Kraus, the 2013 Champion Brand Index from APCO Insight, the 2014/2015 CEO transition to Brad Staples, and the practice buildout that defined the firm through 2018.
The EU's executive runs one of the largest government social media operations in the world — and outsources most of it through framework contracts worth tens of millions of euros.
