Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
The Lost Art of the Drop (O'Dwyer's - September 14, 2026)
Stop misusing these PR terms (PR Daily - September 10, 2026)
PRNEWS Unveils the 2027 Agency Elite Top 120 (PRNEWS - September 10, 2026)
How Consumers are Responding to Sustainability Messages (Institute for Public Relations - September 8, 2026)
Good and Bad PR: Pervy robots, The Grand Tour, more tax & NATS (PRmoment (UK) - September 10, 2026)
The US Open Mixed Doubles: Rethinking Narrative Control (Agility PR Solutions - September 11, 2026)
From Prediction to Recovery: Why the Crisis Lifecycle Matters to Boards (CIPR Crisis Comms Network - September 10, 2026)
Starbucks Korea: A Coffee Tumbler, an Uprising Anniversary, and a Police Raid — What Leaders Can Learn (CommPRO - September 14, 2026)
Headliners: Padilla's Julie Batliner (PRovoke Media - September 11, 2026)
New Lululemon boss sets tone in welcome note; Spellbook CEO mandates human writing in AI policy (Ragan Communications - September 11, 2026)
AI Didn't Kill The Founder Story—It Exposed Who Never Had One (Forbes - September 14, 2026)
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Summary Section:
The Lost Art of the Drop
By Lori Rosen
O'Dwyer's - September 14, 2026
In an industry built on relationships, sometimes it seems we’re making it harder and harder to actually have them.
Stop misusing these PR terms
By Allison Carter
PR Daily - September 10, 2026
Few people in the PR industry can agree on the definitions of even basic terms, including "PR" itself. We asked the community on LinkedIn to chime in with their most mangled, misused and misunderstood terms in PR and comms.
PRNEWS Unveils the 2027 Agency Elite Top 120
PRNEWS - September 10, 2026
PRNEWS has announced the 2027 PRNEWS Agency Elite Top 120, the seventh annual list honoring the PR and communications industry's most innovative agencies.
How Consumers are Responding to Sustainability Messages
Institute for Public Relations - September 8, 2026
GlobeScan examined how consumers' sustainability attitudes and behaviors are shifting, including their trust in brand messaging, generational engagement, purchasing habits, and motivations around health.
Good and Bad PR: Pervy robots, The Grand Tour, more tax & NATS
By Andy Barr, Season One Communications
PRmoment (UK) - September 10, 2026
Heatwave, schmeatwave... the UK has done a factory reset, and returned to normal greying weather. The news agenda refuses to calm down though, and remains hot AF. Let's take a wander through the PR hits and misses of the week.
The US Open Mixed Doubles: Rethinking Narrative Control
By Michelle Neri and Karisse Decena
Agility PR Solutions - September 11, 2026
When organizations launch a new initiative, they often have a clear narrative in mind: the story they want to see reflected in the media and the message they want audiences to take away. But once that initiative enters the public conversation, the narrative is no longer entirely theirs to shape.
From Prediction to Recovery: Why the Crisis Lifecycle Matters to Boards
CIPR Crisis Comms Network - September 10, 2026
In a world of fast-moving risk, heightened scrutiny and narrowing room for error, boards need to understand the full lifecycle of crisis and why strategic communication is central not only to response but to risk management, preparedness and good governance.
Starbucks Korea: A Coffee Tumbler, an Uprising Anniversary, and a Police Raid — What Leaders Can Learn
By Linda Dunbar
CommPRO - September 14, 2026
A Starbucks Korea promotion that sparked outrage and a police investigation offers important lessons about leadership, cultural awareness, AI governance and the human judgment that still matters most.
Headliners: Padilla's Julie Batliner
By Diana Marszalek
PRovoke Media - September 11, 2026
In this week's conversation with a PR leader who has recently hit the PRovoke Media headlines, we speak to Julie Batliner, Padilla's new president.
New Lululemon boss sets tone in welcome note; Spellbook CEO mandates human writing in AI policy
By Sean Devlin
Ragan Communications - September 11, 2026
Greetings, comms pros! Let's take a look at a few news items from the last week and see what we can learn from them.
AI Didn't Kill The Founder Story—It Exposed Who Never Had One
By Rich Bornstein, Founder at Bornstein Media
Forbes - September 14, 2026
AI is extraordinarily good at finding what is already there, but the most valuable story is often hiding somewhere else.
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