Stories by Nicole Schuman

This week PR Roundup looks at the re-brand (or re-re-brand?) of HBO Max, Grok’s penchant for white genocide discussion and a new study revealing declining trust for CEOs.

This week’s PR Roundup looks at the annual Cision State of the Media Report, what we learned about higher education and crisis at the Meltwater Summit and new digital data from GIPHY on the papal internet frenzy.

This week’s PR Roundup looks at Eli Lilly’s CEO and other pharmaceutical leaders dismissing tariff talk, Thayers encouraging moms of all types to apply to be Chief Mom Officer, and new data showing the overwhelming success of allowing employees to be company influencers.

This week’s PR Roundup looks at the growing tariff conversation on social media, rethinking SEO in regards to AI search, and would you buy the Fyre Festival brand?

In this round of Top Tips, we asked the experts for best practices regarding sustainability communications—what’s working, what’s not and how brands can avoid greenwashing while staying true to their values. 

This week’s PR Roundup features a look at the conversation surrounding the Blue Origin celebrity flight—positive AND negative, what Omnicom coming up short on first quarter revenue means for the PR industry, and a new lollipop brand’s campaign to encourage people to “suck at something.”

Kwittken believes that any PR tech should be “human-led and AI-fed, where tools enhance the ability to not only craft effective pitches, but also track media, identify relevant journalists, and predict what’s around the corner for key news topics.

This week’s PR Roundup looks at social advocacy lessons from the Institute for Public Relations Bridge Conference, the results of a new small business public relations study, and a new tool to recycle and elevate forgotten brainstorm ideas.

We talked about how AI adoption is impacting women at work, particularly those in PR and communications positions. 

This 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.