Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Five Forces Transforming Professional Services PR Right Now, and How to Stay Ahead (O'Dwyer's - September 23, 2026)
The Scoop: DoorDash bluntly admits 'we screwed up' in $131.5 million settlement (PR Daily - September 23, 2026)
Climate Comms is Broken. Here is What Actually Resonates. (PRNEWS - September 23, 2026)
When Should Businesses Take a Stand? - Institute for Public Relations (Institute for Public Relations - September 22, 2026)
AI Citations and the Second Golden Age of Content Marketing (Spin Sucks - September 24, 2026)
What I'd do differently if I were building a PR agency today (PRmoment (UK) - September 24, 2026)
The evolution of health PR: three key learnings on AI, earned media and business influence (FINN Partners - September 23, 2026)
How comms can spot a silo before it becomes a problem (Ragan Communications - September 24, 2026)
'A narcissist': UCLA employees alleged top administrator misused funds, bullied staff (Daily Bruin - September 19, 2026)
Podcast booking vs. paid ads: Which builds lasting authority? (Axia Public Relations - September 24, 2026)
Beyond the Deal: The Communications Imperative for Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (CommPRO - September 24, 2026)
What I learned from working both sides of the press release process (EIN Presswire - September 24, 2026)
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Summary Section:
Five Forces Transforming Professional Services PR Right Now, and How to Stay Ahead
By Gina Rubel
O'Dwyer's - September 23, 2026
A wave of structural changes are remaking the industry. The secret to piloting a course through those changes lies in seeing them as mandate -- not as a threat.
The Scoop: DoorDash bluntly admits 'we screwed up' in $131.5 million settlement
By Courtney Blackann
PR Daily - September 23, 2026
DoorDash bluntly admits 'we screwed up' in $131.5 million settlement. Plus: MrBeast explains power of video; Meta's Muse spurs backlash from Amazon.
Climate Comms is Broken. Here is What Actually Resonates.
By Whitney Dailey, Managing Director, Purpose, at Allison Worldwide
PRNEWS - September 23, 2026
Fear. Guilt. Pressure. These are emotions most climate communicators are familiar with. Many have believed them to be the key to get individuals and
When Should Businesses Take a Stand? - Institute for Public Relations
Institute for Public Relations - September 22, 2026
Brunswick & Echelon InsightsBrunswick and Echelon Insights examined voters' views of businesses and corporate leaders amid concerns about affordability, political involvement, and declining institutional trust.
AI Citations and the Second Golden Age of Content Marketing
By Melissa Wickes
Spin Sucks - September 24, 2026
Melissa Wickes outlines how to use old-school content marketing skills to earn AI citations, or the second golden age of content marketing, as she calls it.
What I'd do differently if I were building a PR agency today
By Andy Last, Co-founder at Salt Communications
PRmoment (UK) - September 24, 2026
We started Salt in 2000 with two desks, two computers, one phone and a conviction that PR could be done differently. Seventeen years later, we sold to IPG (now Omnicom), ran the business inside a global network, and I eventually left two years ago. I've had time to think about what I'd do differently.
The evolution of health PR: three key learnings on AI, earned media and business influence
By Laura O’Neill
FINN Partners - September 23, 2026
Here are the three primary takeaways every healthcare communicator and brand leader must understand to stay ahead.
How comms can spot a silo before it becomes a problem
By Sean Devlin
Ragan Communications - September 24, 2026
No one is complaining yet, nothing has escalated and nobody has walked out of a meeting in a huff. But one department just referred to another one as "those guys" instead of "we."
'A narcissist': UCLA employees alleged top administrator misused funds, bullied staff
By Natalia Mochernak and Amanda Velasco
Daily Bruin - September 19, 2026
Seven current and former UCLA employees alleged in at least 22 separate whistleblower and retaliatory reports that the university's head of strategic communications fostered a toxic work environment and mismanaged department funds, according to court documents.
Podcast booking vs. paid ads: Which builds lasting authority?
By Dana Whitfield
Axia Public Relations - September 24, 2026
How to get booked on podcasts to build credible authority, reach engaged audiences, and create PR value that compounds beyond paid ads over time.
Beyond the Deal: The Communications Imperative for Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery
By Ryan Barr
CommPRO - September 24, 2026
IR leaders need to distinguish clearly between what is known, what remains uncertain and what management can control, while continuing to provide visibility into the performance of the underlying businesses.
What I learned from working both sides of the press release process
By Issac Morgan
EIN Presswire - September 24, 2026
I used to produce about two news stories a day under strict deadlines set by the newsroom. Overwhelmed is fair to say, but the pace was invigorating because of my daily reporting tasks for larger enterprise stories and finding a daily news story to publish. One tool that made life a little easier for journalists like myself covering daily news stories is arguably one of the most overlooked: the press release.
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