PR/Comms
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Media RelationsWhen Making Your Pitch, Here’s What Journalists Value MostThere are a host of reasons why journalists reject pitches, but the most common cause is that far too often, the content being pitched is irrelevant to the specific topic or area that the journalist covers. Here’s how to ensure yours is relevant. 
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Branding/MarketingBranding a Viral Moment: The Complexities of Trademarks for Famous PhrasesViral social moments can make phrases powerful cultural assets, leading individuals and businesses to try to protect them as trademarks and cement their reputation in culture. Registering a phrase as a trademark however can be challenging. 
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Digital & TechnologyPRNEWS Live: AI Is Making Women Leaders MORE Burned Out, Not LessWe talked about how AI adoption is impacting women at work, particularly those in PR and communications positions. 
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Crisis ManagementHow to Leverage LLMs for Brand Reputation and Crisis ManagementLarge Language Models (LLMs) offer functionality that’s helping marketers and PR pros raise the bar for modern brand reputation management. Here are ways brands can use them to monitor brand reputation with speed and at scale. 
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Branding/MarketingBurger King’s Left-handed Whopper and Other April Fools Fails to Learn FromThink deeply about the potential impact to an audience. Not all April Fools brand jokes are good ones. 
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Branding/MarketingPR Roundup: PR Lessons from the Signal Crisis, PR Employee Engagement and Job Satisfaction, UPS Launches Tariff ToolThis week’s PR Roundup looks at the crisis issues surrounding the fallout from sending of government Signal messages to a journalist, a new study about PR employee engagement not reflecting job satisfaction, and how a new online tool created by UPS is helping to alleviate tariff stress for customers. 
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Crisis ManagementNavigating Layoff Communication—With or Without a PlanDownsizing staff is never easy, but how it’s communicated can define a company’s reputation both internally and externally. 
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Digital & TechnologyPRNEWS Announces Winners of 2025 Digital AwardsPRNEWS today announced the winners of its 2025 Digital Awards, which celebrates the most the most innovative and industry-altering digital campaigns and initiatives. 
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Branding/MarketingThe Benefits of Building a Velvet Rope Around Your BrandWhether a product or service is priced for the one percent or the everyday American, there are strategies to put in place to create a velvet rope around a brand to make your clientele feel like VIPs. 
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Digital & Technology5 Key Takeaways from Muck Rack’s State of AI in PR ReportAs AI becomes more embedded in PR workflows, having a clear use case policy and providing proper training are essential. PR pros must also balance leveraging these tools and preserving the core skills that make great communicators—critical thinking, creativity, and relationship-building—so the next generation of PR talent isn’t left behind. 
 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	