Your Thursday Daily PR Brief has arrived! - June 25, 2026
What the Air Canada CEO's forced retirement teaches every PR firm; Rules for getting your content cited by AI; AI can't build brand trust, but it can destroy it; and more!
Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Eight Days, Two French Words: What the Air Canada CEO's Forced Retirement Teaches Every PR Firm (Everything-PR - June 24, 2026)
Many brands are celebrating America's 250th birthday with humdrum promotions—here are the key culprits (Agility PR Solutions - June 25, 2026)
Reevemark, TLG, FGS, Trident, Brunswick Top Chambers' Rankings (O'Dwyer's - June 25, 2026)
How Stanley Black & Decker built a 100-day CEO transition comms plan (Ragan Communications - June 24, 2026)
Seven Rules for Getting Your Content Cited by AI (PRNEWS - June 22, 2026)
The First Question Every Integrated Campaign Should Answer (Spin Sucks - June 25, 2026)
AI Can't Build Brand Trust, But It Can Destroy It (Forbes - June 25, 2026)
Nobody's Impressed by Your Comms Report Anymore (CommPRO - June 24, 2026)
The new news reality: Bigger reach, lower trust (PR Daily - June 24, 2026)
Wine's Public Relations Issue Could Halve Consumption in the Next Decade (WineBusiness - June 24, 2026)
Public relations statistics you need to know in 2026 (Sprout Social - June 11, 2026)
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Eight Days, Two French Words: What the Air Canada CEO's Forced Retirement Teaches Every PR Firm
Everything-PR - June 24, 2026
Air Canada Express Flight 8646 collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport on March 22nd, killing pilots Mackenzie Gunther and Antoine Forest. Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau's condolence video, posted the next day, was delivered almost entirely in English with French subtitles. The rest is now the single most teachable PR firm case study of 2026.
Many brands are celebrating America's 250th birthday with humdrum promotions—here are the key culprits
By Arthur Solomon
Agility PR Solutions - June 25, 2026
As I was writing this in early June, many brands had already started their America's birthday celebrations. An internet search revealed, "Major consumer and retail brands have already launched limited-edition products, commemorative merchandise, and national campaigns to celebrate America's 250th birthday."
Reevemark, TLG, FGS, Trident, Brunswick Top Chambers' Rankings
By Steve Barnes
O'Dwyer's - June 25, 2026
Chambers and Partners places Reevemark, Brunswick Group, FGS Global, TLG Communications and Trident GMG as top tier PR firms for both crisis & risk management and litigation support in its just released 2026 rankings.
How Stanley Black & Decker built a 100-day CEO transition comms plan
By Sean Devlin
Ragan Communications - June 24, 2026
When Stanley Black & Decker promoted Christopher Nelson to CEO in October 2025, Alyssa Winterstein, senior communications manager for CEO/CFO and enterprise-wide content strategy & integration, knew employees needed to be guided through the change well before his first day.
Seven Rules for Getting Your Content Cited by AI
By Vlada Lomova, CEO and Co-Founder at PRHub.ae
PRNEWS - June 22, 2026
Getting your brand noticed comes down to whether your expertise stands out when AI citations pull snippets from your pages—and whether it holds up in a world where people consume content fast.
The First Question Every Integrated Campaign Should Answer
By Travis Claytor
Spin Sucks - June 25, 2026
The best integrated campaign doesn't begin with tactics. Travis Claytor explains how owned media creates the foundation for lasting visibility.
AI Can't Build Brand Trust, But It Can Destroy It
By Rory Holland, Founder & CEO of CSTMR Fintech Marketing Agency.
Forbes - June 25, 2026
Sloppy use of AI for marketing creates a barrier to connection, becoming an obstacle to trust.
Nobody's Impressed by Your Comms Report Anymore
By Prince Gregorio
CommPRO - June 24, 2026
As AI floods the information ecosystem with content, communicators face a growing challenge: distinguishing between what is visible and what is truly influential.
The new news reality: Bigger reach, lower trust
By Paul Hiebert
PR Daily - June 24, 2026
In this strange new media environment — low trust; abundant news — PR pros must consider the payoffs between visibility and credibility.
Wine's Public Relations Issue Could Halve Consumption in the Next Decade
By Sarah Brown
WineBusiness - June 24, 2026
Younger consumers are currently caught in a cultural tug-of-war, and it’s directly affecting their spending on alcoholic beverages.
Public relations statistics you need to know in 2026
By Mary Keutelian
Sprout Social - June 11, 2026
Explore 43 public relations statistics on market growth, media relations, AI adoption, crisis communications and more; updated for 2026.
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