The Canadian news industry faces a stack of shifts: ad-revenue collapse, newsroom consolidation, and policy debates around the Online News Act, CBC funding, and the Local Journalism Initiative.
Walmart moved its starting U.S. hourly wage from $9 to $10 last month — the second major McMillon-era wage event in 13 months. More than 1.2 million employees received a raise. Full-time associates saw approximately 3 percent average increases. The disclosure was paired with a scheduling reform that may matter more than the headline wage number.
As the number of wars and other armed conflicts around the globe increases, the number of journalists in harm's way also increases.
In August, Thai army chief General Prayuth Chan-Ocha was named Prime Minister of Thailand.
Goya and NBTY took Long Island tax breaks and cut jobs anyway. The communications playbook when public-money incentives fail — and reputations pay the bill.
Feb 2016: Western Global 747-400 cargo plane found carrying a dead stowaway in Harare. 36-hour delay. J. Austin & Associates — Walter Palmer's Cecil the Lion firm.
The January 2016 #OscarsSoWhite cycle produced two diverging press-response models: George Clooney's direct engagement and the Coen Brothers' dismissal-and-walk-back. The bookends now used in modern filmmaker press-tour preparation, and what the Academy's subsequent structural reforms confirmed.
The U.S. PR industry is shifting toward agencies that bundle earned media, GEO, AI-visibility measurement, and owned content. M&A activity is concentrated in capability acquisitions.
The PRWeek Awards reveal what the industry is rewarding, ignoring, and missing in 2026. The categories that matter, the patterns that win, the gaps.
From Stephen Fry's 2016 Twitter departure through the Bluesky migration, the Substack era, and the AI engine layer that now reduces the cost of leaving traditional social platforms — the public-intellectual-and-platform case file.