Please enjoy your Monday Daily PR Brief - March 17, 2025
Managing information overload; Shareholder activism Is changing fast; How comms can help execs begin their thought leadership journeys; more!
Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
From Breaking News Burnout to Balance: Managing Information Overload (PRNEWS - March 14, 2025)
Cancel culture fades as controversial celebrities and politicians bounce back (Axios - March 13, 2025)
Cognitive dissonance: How LLMs might change PR and communications (Sword and the Script - March 14, 2025) [PODCAST]
Noodles & Co. uses menu relaunch to change brand conversation (PR Daily - March 13, 2025)
How To Protect Agency Clients' Brand Reputations In Ad Placements (Forbes - March 14, 2025)
Q&A: How US-based The Postcard Agency is pushing the envelope on DEI (PRmoment (UK) - March 12, 2025)
Emerging Issue: Welcome to the metaverse - Legal issues for marketers (Axia Public Relations - February 27, 2025)
Shareholder Activism Is Changing Fast and Companies Need to Keep Up (CommPRO - March 17, 2025)
Show Up to Lead . . . And Other Lessons Learned During Two+ Decades at a Global Agency (Culpwrit - March 16, 2025)
Bringing remote teams together: How Muck Rack plans meaningful off-sites (Muck Rack - March 13, 2025)
Reporters Want Companies to Talk About Tariffs…But Companies Don't Want to (Franco - March 14, 2025)
Mind the gap: why are women missing from senior PR roles? (Influence (UK) - March 14, 2025)
How comms can help execs begin their thought leadership journeys (Ragan Communications - March 17, 2025)
Summary Section:
From Breaking News Burnout to Balance: Managing Information Overload
PRNEWS - March 14, 2025
How can communicators navigate the overwhelming nature of breaking news without experiencing burnout and maintain a healthy work-life balance?
Cancel culture fades as controversial celebrities and politicians bounce back
By Eleanor Hawkins
Axios - March 13, 2025
"Cancel culture has been canceled." That's what DOGE leader Elon Musk posted on X in December. The resurgence of once-exiled celebrities and public figures signals that large-scale cancellations could be over.
Cognitive dissonance: How LLMs might change PR and communications [PODCAST]
By Frank Strong, MA, MBA
Sword and the Script - March 14, 2025
Peter Woolfolk recently had me back on his Public Relations Review podcast: LLMs vs GOOGLE: The Impact on the Future of Public Relations Searches! If generative AI gets your story wrong, who do you contact to lobby for a correction?
Noodles & Co. uses menu relaunch to change brand conversation
By Casey Weldon
PR Daily - March 13, 2025
With more than 30 years in business, Noodles & Company has built a loyal following around its globally inspired dishes. But with shifting consumer expectations and rising demand for bold flavors, the restaurant chain feels it may have lost some of its ground as an "authority in the noodle category," according to Stephen Kennedy, EVP of marketing.
How To Protect Agency Clients' Brand Reputations In Ad Placements
By Forbes Agency Council
Forbes - March 14, 2025
In today's fragmented digital marketing landscape, protecting a brand's reputation when executing a digital advertising campaign is more critical than ever for agencies. Because brands can lose credibility among target audiences if their ads are shown in locations or contexts that could harm brand perception, it is the duty of their agency partners to put measures in place that will safeguard clients' brand reputations in the ad placement process.
Q&A: How US-based The Postcard Agency is pushing the envelope on DEI
By Elizabeth Howlett
PRmoment (UK) - March 12, 2025
Launched in 2018 by founder and CEO Jonathan Ochart, Beverly Hills-based The Postcard Agency has historically delivered inclusive PR, marketing and communications for a range of B2B, B2C and non-profit clients.
Emerging Issue: Welcome to the metaverse - Legal issues for marketers
Axia Public Relations - February 27, 2025
Explore important legal issues marketers face in the metaverse. Learn key considerations and strategies to navigate this new digital landscape.
Shareholder Activism Is Changing Fast and Companies Need to Keep Up
By Fay Shapiro
CommPRO - March 17, 2025
As the 2025 proxy season approaches, shifting regulations, market volatility, and evolving shareholder engagement strategies are forcing companies to rethink how they defend their governance and communicate their value.
Show Up to Lead . . . And Other Lessons Learned During Two+ Decades at a Global Agency
By Kevin Oates
Culpwrit - March 16, 2025
If agency years are like dog years, I’m celebrating my 182nd at Ketchum this month. It will be my last. Twenty-six years ago, I graduated from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communications with a degree in Public Relations.
Bringing remote teams together: How Muck Rack plans meaningful off-sites
Muck Rack - March 13, 2025
At Muck Rack, we're committed to being a fully remote company (forever), but that doesn't mean we don't value in-person connection. In fact, bringing our teams together IRL is a big part of our company culture. Each year, Muck Rack teams plan off-sites where they gather to collaborate, exchange ideas and bond through fun activities.
Reporters Want Companies to Talk About Tariffs…But Companies Don't Want to
By Brent Snavely, VP of Media Relations at Franco
Franco - March 14, 2025
Franco Vice President of Media Relations Brent Snavely weighs in on companies willingness to comment on tariffs and the media impact.
Mind the gap: why are women missing from senior PR roles?
By Rana Audah
Influence (UK) - March 14, 2025
Women outnumber men in PR – but not at the top. What's driving the mid-career female talent drain, asks the founder and director of Just Legal Marketing?
How comms can help execs begin their thought leadership journeys
By Sean Devlin
Ragan Communications - March 17, 2025
Thought leaders don't just magically appear from nowhere. They're forged through dedication to craft and time spent carefully working on how to communicate a message to a given audience.
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