Hi! Please enjoy your Monday Daily PR Brief - March 9, 2026
Applying for comms jobs in the age of AI; Media pitching FAQs; Why CMOs are leaning into experiential; more!
Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Pitch length, follow ups and exclusives: 10 media pitching FAQs with PR coach Michael Smart (Muck Rack - March 4, 2026)
Applying for comms jobs in the age of AI (PR Daily - March 7, 2026)
A 4-part process for building an executive voice framework (Ragan Communications - March 9, 2026)
Anthropic Walked the Walk (PRNEWS - March 5, 2026)
Why Reputation Is The ROI Multiplier For Earned Media (Forbes - March 6, 2026)
A Good and Bad PR Special: Brewdog (PRmoment (UK) - March 5, 2026)
International Women's Day: Building the infrastructure for women to lead revenue (Agility PR Solutions Agility PR Solutions - Leading Platform for PR & Comms - March 7, 2026)
Proxy Season Signals a New Communications Challenge for Corporate Leaders (CommPRO - March 9, 2026)
Study: CCOs Are Expected To Be Business Leaders, But Few Are Trained To Get There (PRovoke Media - March 4, 2026)
Why have we got beef with this viral CEO video? (Media First (UK) - March 9, 2026)
The Death Of Rented Attention: Why CMOs Are Leaning Into Experiential (Forbes - March 9, 2026)
The LLM Revolution: Redefining Thought Leadership with PR (Meltwater - March 5, 2026)
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Pitch length, follow ups and exclusives: 10 media pitching FAQs with PR coach Michael Smart
By Kristen Dunleavy
Muck Rack - March 4, 2026
Michael used to recommend a pitch length of 250 words or less, but after looking at Muck Rack data, he noted that the most opened and most clicked PR pitches didn't actually correlate to pitch length.
Applying for comms jobs in the age of AI
By Caitlin Vander Weele, CEO of Stellate
PR Daily - March 7, 2026
Last month, I led a round of hiring at Stellate. What surprised me most wasn't the 350-plus highly competitive folks who applied, it was the disappointing quality of the written responses — for a communications job!
A 4-part process for building an executive voice framework
By Sean Devlin
Ragan Communications - March 9, 2026
When the CEO steps in front of employees and delivers a confident, human town hall update about the company's strategy, that's a win for communicators. The problem often appears later, when a LinkedIn post from the same leader reads like it was written by someone else entirely.
Anthropic Walked the Walk
By Gregg Feistman, Professor of Practice, Public Relations, at the Klein College of Media and Communica
PRNEWS - March 5, 2026
The refusal of Anthropic to waiver under political pressure and compromise its AI safeguards can lead to improved employee morale, increased productivity, attracting and retaining talent, gaining news business and engendering trust.
Why Reputation Is The ROI Multiplier For Earned Media
By Shannon Reedy, Chief Brand Officer at Terakeet
Forbes - March 6, 2026
Without a supporting ecosystem and online brand strategy, I've found that PR fails to convert earned buzz into sustained attention, leaving significant value on the table.
A Good and Bad PR Special: Brewdog
By Andy Barr, Season One Communications
PRmoment (UK) - March 5, 2026
As someone who delivers the odd academic guest lecture, I can say with a certain amount of confidence that Brewdog will be used as the perfect example of a brand that was killed by a thousand negative comms moments.
International Women's Day: Building the infrastructure for women to lead revenue
By Laurie Ehrbar, CMO of Clari + Salesloft
Agility PR Solutions Agility PR Solutions - Leading Platform for PR & Comms - March 7, 2026
Empowering the future of women in revenue leadership. International Women’s Day is a moment to celebrate progress. It is also a moment to confront reality and take stock of where more work remains.
Proxy Season Signals a New Communications Challenge for Corporate Leaders
CommPRO - March 9, 2026
The 2026 proxy season is beginning in a different environment from just a few years ago. Fewer shareholder proposals are expected overall, but that does not necessarily mean an easier season for companies. A new report from The Conference Board suggests the landscape is shifting in ways that may create greater uncertainty for boards, corporate leaders, and the communications professionals who support them.
Study: CCOs Are Expected To Be Business Leaders, But Few Are Trained To Get There
By Diana Marszalek
PRovoke Media - March 4, 2026
A Medill survey of 125 senior communications executives highlights a growing gap between the business expectations of the role and how communicators are developed.
Why have we got beef with this viral CEO video?
By Adam Fisher
Media First (UK) - March 9, 2026
It's a promotional video that has been widely ridiculed. What went wrong? And what media training lessons can you learn from it?
The Death Of Rented Attention: Why CMOs Are Leaning Into Experiential
By Adam Salacuse, Founder and CEO of ALT TERRAIN
Forbes - March 9, 2026
The best marketing channel in 2026 is the real world, and it's wide open.
The LLM Revolution: Redefining Thought Leadership with PR
By Lance Concannon
Meltwater - March 5, 2026
Learn how the LLM revolution is reshaping thought leadership and what PR teams must do to build authority in AI-driven search.
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Thanks for the very kind and very generous mention of my waffle over on PRMoment. The Brewdog community reaction has been savage.