Hank Sheinkopf — 700+ campaigns across four continents, Clinton 1996, Bloomberg, four decades of New York institutional political communications. Sheinkopf Communications, founded 1981.
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.
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.
How the major PR holding companies engage politically — Edelman, Omnicom (Mercury), Stagwell (SKDK), WPP (Burson), FleishmanHillard, and the bipartisan vs partisan firm landscape. Campaign contributions, federal lobbying, public affairs subsidiaries.
ScoutComms is the veteran-owned, B Corp-certified public relations firm serving military, veterans, and defense clients from Washington, D.C. — founded by former U.S. Army officer Fred Wellman.
A turnover year for US state lottery marketing — the Illinois Northstar unwind, the Powerball matrix change, and an active AOR cycle across multiple states.
State-level digital and radio campaigns to promote citizen preparedness have become a meaningful operational layer in how DHS and state homeland security offices actually reach citizens. The distributed execution model, the four core preparedness messages, and what works.
FARA was written in 1938 to expose Nazi propagandists. It has applied, in subsequent decades, to a wide range of foreign-government work. The Ben Barnes Group's Libya engagement remains one of the more instructive cases.
ICANN's 2012 gTLD round: $350M in fees, 2,091 applications, ~1,200 new gTLDs added. The next round opens April 2026. Web3 domains and AI answer engines now compete with the DNS.
EPR's 2011 interview with Margery Kraus, founder of APCO Worldwide, in her capacity as Founder and CEO. Kraus on building APCO from a single Washington office, business diplomacy, ethics, controversial clients, digital transparency, and leadership.
