Hi! Behold your Thursday Daily PR Brief - June 26, 2025
Zohran Mamdani's mayoral messaging masterclass; McDonald's reassures DEI policies still central; How communicators learn from structured failure; more!
Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
A PR Power Play: Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral Messaging Masterclass (PRNEWS - June 25, 2025)
The Scoop: McDonald's reassures DEI policies still central to organization amid nationwide boycott (PR Daily - June 25, 2025)
What is the Current State of Customer Communications? (Institute for Public Relations - June 24, 2025)
What PR Pros Can Learn From the AI Regulation Debate (PRsay - June 25, 2025)
Influencer PR Strategies for Fintech Brands: A Guide to Micro vs. Macro Partnerships (5W Public Relations - June 26, 2025)
Editing Made Easy: 3 Tips to Improve the Process (Amendola Communications - June 25, 2025)
When brands get canceled: What PR can do—and what it can't (Agility PR Solutions - June 25, 2025)
Inside the 2025 Non-Traditional Media Survey: How B2B Leaders Are Navigating the Next Era of Earned Media (Walker Sands - June 23, 2025)
frankly… Episode 71: Servant Leadership Best Serves Your Team (Franco - June 25, 2025) [PODCAST]
Communications is the Heartbeat of Values-Driven Change (Landis Communications - June 25, 2025)
Cannes 2025: Ranking the Eight Gold PR Lions Winners (PRovoke Media - June 24, 2025)
How communicators learn from structured failure (Ragan Communications - June 24, 2025)
From Talk to Action: The Blueprint Is Changing PR for Good | What's Up In Tech PR (The Hoffman Agency - June 26, 2025)
Summary Section:
A PR Power Play: Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral Messaging Masterclass
By Selina Rashid Khan
PRNEWS - June 25, 2025
Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York City's mayoral Democratic primary really defined what it means to connect and win in the digital age. Grounded in multilingual storytelling, community-first outreach, intersectional identity and multichannel presence, his campaign is a communications blueprint, and here's why.
The Scoop: McDonald's reassures DEI policies still central to organization amid nationwide boycott
By Courtney Blackann
PR Daily - June 25, 2025
After a nationwide boycott launched by The People's Union this week targeted several food chains for changing or eliminating DEI, McDonald's responded by reiterating the importance of inclusion in its organization.
What is the Current State of Customer Communications?
Institute for Public Relations - June 24, 2025
Sinch wanted to explore how consumers prefer to engage with brands today and their expectations for the future.
What PR Pros Can Learn From the AI Regulation Debate
By Joshua J. Smith
PRsay - June 25, 2025
At first, this might sound like a legal or legislative debate. For communication professionals, it represents something potentially bigger: a dangerous precedent that limits accountability and clears the path for an accelerated expansion of generative AI tools already reshaping communications.
Influencer PR Strategies for Fintech Brands: A Guide to Micro vs. Macro Partnerships
5W Public Relations - June 26, 2025
The right influencer collaboration can help explain complex financial products, demonstrate real-world applications, and create authentic connections with potential customers. Yet choosing between micro and macro influencers – and executing campaigns effectively – remains a significant challenge for many fintech marketers.
Editing Made Easy: 3 Tips to Improve the Process
By Brandon Glenn
Amendola Communications - June 25, 2025
You've planned, outlined, and drafted some content that clearly communicates the points and messages you set out to convey. Time to sit back, relax, and think about what's next, right? Not exactly. Before the content appears publicly, it must go through the editing process.
When brands get canceled: What PR can do—and what it can't
By Catherine Schwartz
Agility PR Solutions - June 25, 2025
The words 'cancel culture' aren't just another phrase tossed around social media when people want to take down a content creator or influencer. It's a term recently coined that every brand should avoid being subject to at all costs.
Inside the 2025 Non-Traditional Media Survey: How B2B Leaders Are Navigating the Next Era of Earned Media
By Annie Gudorf
Walker Sands - June 23, 2025
Data shows 94% of marketing and communications leaders are using or exploring non-traditional media — but are they prepared to drive results? Explore key takeaways from our latest research on how B2B marketers are navigating the rise of non-traditional media.
frankly… Episode 71: Servant Leadership Best Serves Your Team [PODCAST]
By Nina Scarpelli
Franco - June 25, 2025
Rachel and Dan chat with Rachel's dad, Mike Burnard. Together, they unpack what it really means to lead with impact, whether (and when) an MBA might be the right move and what to consider when deciding on a company or role.
Communications is the Heartbeat of Values-Driven Change
By Makenzi Jordan Rodriguez
Landis Communications - June 25, 2025
At Landis Communications, we wake up each morning energized by the opportunity to create communications that are meaningful, strategic and help build a better world. This Pride Month, we celebrate how our values-aligned approach to communications creates lasting impact and genuine connections across all the communities we serve.
Cannes 2025: Ranking the Eight Gold PR Lions Winners
By Paul Holmes
PRovoke Media - June 24, 2025
Paul Holmes ranks the eight Gold Lu\ions winners, and identifies the most critical trends in this year's PR competition.
How communicators learn from structured failure
By Justin Joffe
Ragan Communications - June 24, 2025
As the communications function continues to grow increasingly obsessed with fast results and definitive solutions, Kerry O’Grady, Ed.D, a senior lecturer of communications at University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management and a Ragan Training Instructor, makes a compelling case for failing with intention, reflection, and iteration.
From Talk to Action: The Blueprint Is Changing PR for Good | What's Up In Tech PR
By Richard Fogg
The Hoffman Agency - June 26, 2025
Learn how The Blueprint, aka the gold standard of DEI in PR, is helping our agency move from talking about diversity to acting on it.
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