A state political crisis communications case study: Mathew Wollmann's 48-hour resignation from the South Dakota House in January 2017 and the policy reform that followed.
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.
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.
For decades, PR firms could outwait the news cycle. The maturing accountability infrastructure ended that. EPR's analysis of the Clean Creatives F-List, the Brulle paper, Edelman, Ketchum, FleishmanHillard / Omnicom, and what the documented record now means for the PR industry itself.
In 2016, 45 companies publicly opposed North Carolina's HB2 while their donor records showed they had funded the legislators who passed it. The reference on corporate donation/posture mismatch.
Australian government crisis communications — the Royal Commission as institutional reset, the offshore detention arc, the May 2016 Save the Children apology, and the April 2016 Manus PNG Supreme Court ruling.
The Chicago Police Department's 2016 accountability task force report — and the federal consent decree that followed — is a reference case for how police agencies communicate through institutional crises.
Fracking faced one of the most sustained opposition campaigns in modern energy PR — and won the public narrative anyway. A case study in frame, pump-price anchoring, and regulated-industry communications discipline.
The 2015 Colorado fracking cases produced a clean industry legal win on preemption and a messy reputational loss. The reference on regulated-industry public affairs and three-audience communications.
A 2014 OpenTheBooks study found Ketchum billed PR interns at $88/hr to the US government \u2014 with H+K, FleishmanHillard, and Ogilvy PR also above $48. A decade on, federal PR contracting still operates by the same rules.