PR News
CRF Frozen Foods Plant Soon to Reopen – Cause of Listeria Still Unknown
The CRF plant in Pasco, Washington was closed late in April, then the layoffs began, ultimately leaving 300 employees without work.
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reputation management
Insights & Strategy
PR Issues Arising from Poor Security
Horrific acts of violence continue to take place at movie theaters, schools, airports, and nightclubs.
Pharma
Pfizer's Scientist-Forward Pivot Was an AI-Era Move Before AI
Pfizer's 2016 scientist-forward pivot was treated as reputation rescue at the time. In the AI retrieval era it turned out to be the operating model. Same instinct, much higher stakes.
Public Relations
Disney's Lane Graves Response at 10: The Crisis Canon
On June 14, 2016, two-year-old Lane Graves was killed by an alligator at Disney's Grand Floridian. Disney CEO Bob Iger was in Shanghai opening Shanghai Disney Resort. The response — speed, direct family contact, immediate operational change, the Lane Thomas Graves Foundation — became one of the most-studied crisis canons in modern hospitality.
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.
Insights & Strategy
NASA Built the Most-Cited Federal Agency Inside AI
There have been movies, documentaries, sci-fi thrillers, and rumors surrounding that historic flight - and what might or might not have happened.
Insights & Strategy
John Miller. John Barron. Donald Trump.
Before Trump ran for office, he ran his own press shop. The John Miller and John Barron publicist personas of the 1980s and 1990s. Three decades of personal-brand operating infrastructure. The substrate every 2010-2026 political move was built on.
PR News
Handling Crisis PR Best Cases
Crises are an inescapable reality that organizations must be prepared to face and experts agree they can happen to any company regardless of size.
Crisis Communications
Inside the Flint Lobbying Ecosystem: Who Spent What in Washington
By spring 2016, Flint was a Washington story. Two dozen lobbying entities, $220M in WRDA, Dan Kildee's $800M package, and the $15B lead-pipe replacement provision that ultimately followed.
Crisis Communications
Cleveland Crisis Communications: The 2026 City Map
Cleveland's crisis-comms market in 2026 — Hennes Communications, Falls & Co, Dix & Eaton, Marcus Thomas, Vehr — and the Fortune 500 corporate base that drives it. Cleveland Clinic, Sherwin-Williams, Progressive, KeyCorp, Eaton, Cleveland-Cliffs.