Diversity + Sustainability
PR Roundup: Marissa Mayer’s Demo Misfire, How AI Is Shaping the Midterms and Lime’s Civics Playbook
PR roundup covers Marissa Mayer’s viral AI parenting anecdote, new research showing how AI platforms are nudging Senate candidates toward the center and why Lime’s free rides to the polls is a textbook example of purpose-driven brand activation done right.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: The NHL Misreads a Cultural Moment, Starbucks Faces a Labeling Lawsuit and AI’s Reputation Problem Gets a Formal Warning
PR Roundup covers what the NHL’s short-lived “Hot for Hockey” campaign reveals about the difference between spotting a cultural trend and earning a place in it, why Starbucks’ “Sugar-Free” protein drinks are now the subject of a class-action lawsuit and why AI has prompted an unprecedented formal warning for business leaders.
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Crisis Management
PRNEWS Celebrates 2026 Platinum Awards Winners, People of the Year and Agency Elite 120
The winners of the 2026 PRNEWS Platinum Awards were announced during the program’s annual gala celebration, which took place Tuesday, October 6, at The Lighthouse venue in New York City. Nearly 400 PR and comms professionals, including the People of the Year and Agency Elite 120, gathered to honor the people, teams and campaigns that exemplify industry excellence.
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Cause Marketing
The Brief: Airport Narrators and Community Baby Showers
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover community baby showers, UV laundry and the Voice of Logan.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Climate Comms is Broken. Here is What Actually Resonates.
Fear. Guilt. Pressure. These are emotions most climate communicators are familiar with. Many have believed them to be the key to get individuals and organizations to pay attention, to act and to care. Yet despite the emphasis on these emotive messages in recent years, it seems that things are not going as planned. Earlier this […]
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Arch Manning’s Vanishing Apology, the Sheeran-Macklemore-Kraft Fallout and Why Reputation Is Worth $1.2 Billion
PR roundup covers Arch Manning’s AI video moment and subsequent apology, why the Macklemore-Sheeran-Kraft dispute shows that neutrality is hard to claim and new research that finally puts a dollar figure on what a strong reputation is actually worth.
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Branding/Marketing
The Smartest Decision in Sports: How the Buffalo Bills Kept Canada in the Fold
In a break from tradition, the Buffalo Bills have asked the Toronto-based band Barenaked Ladies to perform “O Canada,” prior to the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Anthropic Researcher Sounds an Apocalyptic Alarm, Communicators Are Burned Out, and TEMPTATIONS Nails the Bodega Cat Moment
PR roundup covers what happens when Anthropic employees publicly confirm its risks, new research showing that communicators are increasingly burned out and eyeing the door, and how TEMPTATIONS turned the beloved “bodega cat” into a textbook experiential PR campaign.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
AI Data Centers Must Go Beyond Sustainability Claims to Win Back Their License to Operate
The media narrative around artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers has shifted dramatically. The next phase of data center communications begins with asking people to trust that these facilities are more efficient or sustainable.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
The Power of Causing a Crisis: What Meta’s Payout Can Teach About Advocacy Communications
Advocacy campaigns can often take on companies many times their size, like Meta, throwing them into crisis. Sustained-pressure communications runs on a different logic than defense.
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Branding/Marketing
What Amgen’s MrBeast Partnership Shows About Communicating Complex Issues
In this Q&A, Susie Tappouni, head of Corporate Affairs at Amgen and Sue Schwartz, co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, discuss how their organizations worked with Beast Philanthropy and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to bring the patient perspective to a creator-led campaign.
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