As AI platforms begin introducing advertising into conversational search environments, communicators and brands must rethink how visibility, credibility, and influence will compete in a space where paid promotion and AI-generated answers appear side by side.

As generative AI reshapes how people research companies and make decisions, brands must rethink their narrative strategy so AI platforms accurately represent their story, leadership, and expertise.

As Women’s History Month unfolds, brands are spotlighting women leaders and entrepreneurs while CommPRO convenes a candid town hall to explore how trust and reputation are actually managed inside organizations.

As AI becomes embedded in everyday digital experiences, new data from Shift Browser’s 2026 AI Consumer Insights Survey shows that while adoption is rising quickly, trust increasingly depends on transparency, user control, and clear accountability.

AI is increasingly shaping how stories are formed, filtered, and surfaced, raising new questions for communicators about whether the narratives investors and stakeholders receive truly reflect the message intended.

As M&A activity gains momentum in 2026, communications and investor relations leaders are navigating deals under heightened scrutiny, faster stakeholder reactions, and increasingly complex expectations.

As AI becomes embedded in everyday communications work, Capitol Communicator editor Phil Rabin argues that proficiency with the technology and the ability to prove ROI are quickly becoming essential expectations for PR professionals who want to stay relevant and credible in a changing industry.

As artificial intelligence reshapes how work is done and valued, the communications industry is being forced to confront a long-standing question about what it truly delivers and where its real value lives.

As trust pressures intensify across financial services, communicators are reexamining how content authentication, credibility, and transparency shape confidence among investors, regulators, and the public.

As AI-powered search and large language models reshape how information is discovered and trusted, Wikipedia has quietly become one of the most influential and underexamined assets in the modern communications playbook.

Black History Month invites communicators to move beyond reflection toward recalibration, recognizing that culture is not a risk to neutralize but strategic intelligence that shapes trust, credibility, and competitive advantage.

As press releases evolve to serve journalists, search engines, and now large language models, communicators must rethink how they write to ensure clarity, attribution, and authority survive even when their words are stripped of context and reshaped by AI, in part one of a two-part series.

As algorithms increasingly shape what is seen, shared, and remembered, communicators are confronting a critical question about whose stories are being surfaced and whose are quietly erased.

As efforts to rewrite or remove parts of America’s past intensify, communicators are being challenged to defend historical truth, preserve context, and ensure the full story of Black history continues to be told.

As trust in digital content erodes under the weight of fraud, misinformation and AI-driven deception, this piece argues that communicators must rethink brand safety through a practical Protect, Detect and Correct framework that turns an overwhelming problem into one leaders can actually address.

As the PRCA reopens the debate over how public relations should be defined, the industry is left asking whether this is a timely evolution of the profession or an unnecessary reinvention of something that already works.

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s life and leadership offer a powerful reminder to today’s business communication leaders that words matter most when they are rooted in fairness, used with purpose, and tied to real action.

As Applied Artificial Intelligence moves from hype to enterprise reality, corporate communications leaders are at a pivotal moment to either define how AI strengthens relevance, governance, and employee trust or risk having those decisions made for them elsewhere.

As leaders across law, civil rights, and communications reflect on the passing of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins honors a legacy that reshaped American civic life and set an enduring standard for leadership rooted in courage, credibility, and action.

As shareholder activism grows more sophisticated and costly, investor intelligence has become a critical early-warning system, giving IR teams the visibility they need to detect emerging threats sooner, prepare leadership more effectively, and protect long-term corporate value.