Why journalists ignore perfectly good pitches—and what PR can learn from it
Many communications professionals assume that if a pitch is clear, personalized, and professionally written, it has a strong chance of earning a response. In reality, some of the most carefully prepared emails never receive a reply. While writing quality certainly...
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The Epstein files situation provides a tutorial on how to prolong a PR crisis
The Republican Party’s actions since President Trump’s reelection had already provided Democrats with strong talking points to emphasize in the 2026 mid-term Congressional election – for example, the failure of President Trump to reduce prices and the failure to enact...
From reactive to proactive: Preparing for crises before they hit in 2026
In 2026, brands can no longer afford to treat crises as isolated events that require reactive responses. The integration of PR into broader marketing strategy has elevated its role in shaping perception, managing narratives, and protecting long-term business...
The next era of PR: Navigating crises in a hyper-connected world
In an age where information travels instantly, brands are under constant scrutiny. The stakes for PR teams have never been higher, as a single misstep can amplify across multiple channels and impact both reputation and revenue. The next era of PR will require...
PR Tech & AI
5 practical AI agent examples your PR team should run in 2026
Are your PR workflows slowing down your team? Whether this is manually sending every outreach email or dedicating time and resources to media monitoring, each stage of brand promotion can drag without the right tools in place. Team-led workflows slow down business...
The PR team’s playbook for pitching a tech upgrade to leadership
Your pitch decks look great. Your media lists are solid. Your team knows how to land coverage. But behind the scenes, half your week disappears into copy-pasting between tools, manually updating spreadsheets, and rebuilding the same campaign reports from scratch every...
Top AI detector tools for teams that need results
When AI Detection Starts Slowing Teams Down Instead Of Supporting Them Not long ago, I worked with a content lead at a fast-growing SaaS company managing a distributed team of freelance writers. Output was strong (well-edited, consistent, on-brand), but they'd...
Content & Media Relations
The AI-to-AI funnel: How to succeed when your pitch is read by an algorithm, not a journalist
Every morning, thousands of public relations professionals click "send" on their carefully crafted media pitches, visualizing a reporter sitting at their desk, sipping coffee, and reading their clever subject line. That visualization is rapidly becoming a relic of the...
The new crisis isn’t a WSJ hit—it’s a ChatGPT answer
A reporter calls. You respond. You negotiate the quote. You hold the line. You survive the cycle. That playbook is forty years old. It is not the crisis we now manage. The new crisis is a wrong, defamatory, or hallucinated answer about your CEO that appears inside...
Your CMO can’t define AEO, LLMO, or AI visibility. That’s a board-level problem.
The marketing vocabulary has reset three times in 25 years. Digital. Social. Now AI. The first two resets gave CMOs a decade to get fluent. This one is giving them eighteen months. I run a communications firm. We brief a lot of CMOs. In the last six months, here is...









