Best Practices
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Media Relations
Ask a Journalist: Jason Spells of ESPN on Why Networking Is So Important
Jason Spells, an ESPN on-air personality who’s been in the game for years, offers first-hand insights into what has changed in media and what still moves the needle.
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Media Relations
Five Questions With Michelle Ciciyasvili: Keeping Betches Relevant With Media Relations Patience
Ciciyasvili spent three years cultivating a relationship with a contact at Variety before it resulted in a feature story and podcast appearance for Betches’ CEO.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: When AI Fakes the Experts, Livestreamers Beat the Algorithm, and Swatch Breaks the Internet
This week’s PR Roundup features fake AI-generated academic journals impersonating real professors, Twitch outpacing TikTok and Instagram in producing top-ranked creators and the viral Swatch x Audemars Piguet collaboration that sent shoppers into a frenzy.
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Marketers
5 Tips for Addressing the Pivotal Changes in B2B Buying Models
Too many B2B vendors have yet to modify their sales models in response to gen AI search habits, marketplace turbulence and economic volatility. For those sellers unsure of how to address GTM changes, Forrester offers some suggestions.
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Crisis Management
Private Credit Has a Communications Problem
Firms need comms partners who understand the structural complexity of private credit markets and can translate that into clear, credible narratives that build investor confidence over time.
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Branding/Marketing
What Gwyneth Paltrow Taught a Room Full of PR Pros
Bjertnæs shared that Paltrow’s key message resonated well beyond celebrity: all PR is good PR, as long as integrity leads the way.
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Crisis Management
The Crisis Threat Hiding in Plain Sight: Your AI Chat History
Now senior leaders’ own conversations with an LLM could be used to argue guilt or innocence. Now not only have lawyers been put on alert, but so should communication professionals.
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Crisis Management
What ‘Survivor’ Reveals About Executive Communication Under Pressure
Strip away the torches, Buffs and meager rations, and “Survivor” reveals itself as a case study in high-stakes communication.
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Mobile
Finch’s First Brand Campaign Celebrates the Weirder Side of Self-Care
On the self-care app Finch, users care for a digital bird by completing small acts of self-care like drinking water, tidying up and performing breathing exercises. But one of the most popular pre-set goals on the app is something more basic: survive the day.
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Branding/Marketing
LinkedIn Data Reveals the 5 Skills Redefining Communications in the AI Age
On LinkedIn, job postings that mention “storyteller” have doubled over the last year.