Read some of today’s best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Hello Kitty firm apologizes, scraps Japan TV tie-up after China anger (BNN Bloomberg - October 29, 2026)
How Colgate-Palmolive's comms team builds a stronger budget request (Ragan Communications - October 28, 2026)
Inconsistent Answers Plague AI (O'Dwyer's - October 28, 2026)
Five PR lessons from 'You Can See Everything' (PRNEWS - October 28, 2026)
When Workplace Change Becomes a Trust Test (Institute for Public Relations - October 27, 2026)
How Much Kylian Mbappe's Mao Zedong Blunder Could Cost Him (Sports Illustrated - October 28, 2026)
The Power of Presence: Sabrina Browne and Fatou Barry on Women Defining the Future of Public Relations (PRsay - October 28, 2026)
How News Releases Strengthen Brand Authority Today (Axia Public Relations - October 29, 2026)
The Big Apple Conversation: Aaron Kwittken on Mentorship, AI and What's Next for Communications (CommPRO - October 28, 2026)
PRovoke Global Summit: What it Takes for PR to Earn C-Suite Influence (PRovoke - October 27, 2026)
Talk business, not just comms: Lessons from FanDuel's internal comms leader (PR Daily - October 28, 2026)
The Rise Of Flagxiety: Are We Losing Our Voices To AI? (Forbes - October 29, 2026)
How you incentivize marketing and comms drives results (Sword and the Script - October 27, 2026)
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Hello Kitty firm apologizes, scraps Japan TV tie-up after China anger
BNN Bloomberg - October 29, 2026
Sanrio, the Japanese company behind the popular character Hello Kitty, apologized on Thursday over its tie-up with a TV spy drama criticized as anti-China, cancelling a merchandise collaboration with the show.
How Colgate-Palmolive's comms team builds a stronger budget request
By Sean Devlin
Ragan Communications - October 28, 2026
For many communicators, budget requests follow a familiar process. The comms team shows up to a meeting with a stack of metrics and tries to show their organization's top brass how the communications department is making a difference. Robert Goodfellow, senior director of global corporate communications and CSR at Colgate-Palmolive, told Ragan that too often, communicators lose ground in these kinds of conversations before anyone reviews any of the numbers and figures.
Inconsistent Answers Plague AI
By Steve Barnes
O'Dwyer's - October 28, 2026
While AI may be the source that everyone is turning to in their online searches, the answers it provides don't necessarily stay consistent from one week to the next.
Five PR lessons from 'You Can See Everything'
By Nick DeSarno and Sandeep Kumar
PRNEWS - October 28, 2026
The Elizabeth Holmes doc, "You Can See Everything" is also a case study in how every word and intervention can carry reputational risk.
When Workplace Change Becomes a Trust Test
Institute for Public Relations - October 27, 2026
The Edelman Trust Institute examined how workplace transformation is shaping employee trust in organizations and leadership.
How Much Kylian Mbappe's Mao Zedong Blunder Could Cost Him
By Grey Whitebloom
Sports Illustrated - October 28, 2026
Real Madrid soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé could stand to lose millions in yearly sponsorship revenue after getting cut by multiple Chinese sponsors amid a social media storm of his own unwitting creation.
The Power of Presence: Sabrina Browne and Fatou Barry on Women Defining the Future of Public Relations
PRsay - October 28, 2026
What happens when women stop waiting for the communications industry to define leadership for them and begin shaping it on their own terms? That question sat at the center of a dynamic conversation between Sabrina Browne, co-chair of the PRSA Black Voices Affinity Group, and Fatou Barry, founder and CEO of The PR Girl Manifesto, during PRSA ICON 2026 in Orlando, Fla.
How News Releases Strengthen Brand Authority Today
By Dana Whitfield
Axia Public Relations - October 29, 2026
Learn how news releases support earned media and AI citations, helping established companies build authority, improve visibility, and support marketing goals.
The Big Apple Conversation: Aaron Kwittken on Mentorship, AI and What's Next for Communications
By Fay Shapiro
CommPRO - October 28, 2026
An industry innovator and the 2026 PRSA-NY Big Apple Awards Mentoring Honoree shares his perspective on the future of communications, the changing agency business and the importance of developing the next generation.
PRovoke Global Summit: What it Takes for PR to Earn C-Suite Influence
By Diana Marszalek
PRovoke - October 27, 2026
Communications leaders at PRovoke's Global Summit discussed how business acumen, stronger internal relationships and measurable results can turn PR professionals into trusted advisors.
Talk business, not just comms: Lessons from FanDuel's internal comms leader
By Isis Simpson-Mersha
PR Daily - October 28, 2026
Modupeh Jahamaliah leads internal communications at FanDuel, where she has helped build the company's LinkedIn presence and executive profiles in pursuit of one big goal: the most educated employee base in the industry.
The Rise Of Flagxiety: Are We Losing Our Voices To AI?
By Jennifer Schenberg, CEO and Chief Storyteller at PenVine
Forbes - October 29, 2026
AI slop is breeding what I call human slop: high volumes of careless, generic writing.
How you incentivize marketing and comms drives results
By Frank Strong, MA, MBA
Sword and the Script - October 27, 2026
If you incentivize one marketing team with conversions and another for awareness, you wind up with two teams pulling in slightly different directions.
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