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The Wikipedia Paradox: Why LLMs Made Your Worst PR Channel Your Most Important Asset
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.
Keeping a Client’s Olympic Connection in the News After the Closing Ceremonies
As brands assess the real return on Olympic sponsorships, this piece explores how smart PR can extend those high-profile associations long after the closing ceremonies.
Study Highlights Structural Pay Gaps in Professional Compensation
New research is bringing fresh scrutiny to how structural pay gaps persist across professional sectors, raising important questions about equity, transparency, and long-term economic mobility in an AI-driven workplace.
Neutrality Does Not Build Trust
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.
How AI Is Reshaping IPO Investor Relations
As IPO narratives form earlier and scrutiny intensifies, investor relations experts say AI is fundamentally changing how companies pressure-test their story, benchmark against peers, and build credibility with the public markets.
Writing for Humans, Algorithms, and LLMs at the Same Time
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.
Epstein Files Force a New Reckoning for Reputation Management
As the Epstein file releases reignite scrutiny of power, access, and accountability, they underscore for communicators that reputation is built or broken not by spin, but by ethical choices made long before a crisis becomes public.
Algorithms That Erase Our Stories
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.
Fighting Efforts to Erase Black History and Telling the Whole Story
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.
Framing Brand Safety for the AI Age Around Protect, Detect & Correct
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.
Is PRCA’s PR Redefine a Necessary Update or a Solution in Search of a Problem?
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.
Black History Month at 100, Time to Pause
As February moves quickly, Black History Month at 100 offers a timely moment to pause and reflect on how history, storytelling, and representation continue to shape leadership, culture, and communications today.
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Legacy and Three Lessons for Business Communication Leaders
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.
AI and the New Mandate for Corporate Communications Leaders in 2026
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.
National Bar Association President Ashley Upkins reflects on the Legacy of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
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.
Closing the Gap on Activism Risk Through Investor Intelligence
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.
Jim Clyburn on the First Eight and a Defining Chapter in American Leadership
In this episode of That Said, Congressman Jim Clyburn reflects on his new book The First Eight, tracing the overlooked Black lawmakers of Reconstruction and why their legacy, and the century-long silence that followed, still matters today.
Greg Kihlström— A Capitol Communicator Profile
A Capitol Communicator profile spotlights Greg Kihlström, creator of The Agile Brand Guide and award-winning Agile Brand podcast, whose prolific work and entrepreneurial drive continue to shape the future of marketing technology and customer experience across the Mid-Atlantic and beyond.
Why Valentine’s Candy Storytelling Still Works
For Valentine’s Day, chocolate steals the spotlight, with artisan and luxury brands using mood, craft and storytelling to turn a simple indulgence into something that feels personal, playful and a little irresistible.
IPR Research Shows Communicators Are Driving Generative AI Adoption
New research from IPR, sponsored by New York Life, shows communicators are playing a central role in driving generative AI adoption by helping organizations align leadership, technology and culture.

