Good day! Check out your Tuesday Daily PR Brief - January 20, 2026
Netflix co-CEO keeps calm but takes risk in NYT Q&A; Never underestimate a comms pro; The agency of the future; and more!
Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
The Scoop: Netflix co-CEO keeps calm but takes risk in NYT Q&A (PR Daily - January 16, 2026)
Black Executives and the Meaning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2026 (PRsay - January 19, 2026)
The Agency of the Future: AI Redefines PR (5W Public Relations - January 18, 2026)
What high-performing PR teams understand about scale, systems, and trust (Agility PR Solutions - January 20, 2026)
Reputation, Risk and Resilience: how organisations can navigate increasing complexity in the new abnormal of volatility and challenge (CIPR Crisis Comms - January 17, 2026)
Edelman Trust Barometer Finds Insularity Reshaping Trust and Leadership (CommPRO - January 19, 2026)
Why you should never underestimate a comms professional (Firefly - January 19, 2026)
What Disney World Taught Me About Public Relations (HMA PR - January 16, 2026)
PR Roundup: Top Risks Revealed, FBI Searches Journalists, Wendy's Starts Beef With Bills (PRNEWS - January 15, 2026)
Headliners: Allison Worldwide Global CEO Wendy Lund (PRovoke Media - January 16, 2026)
Big PR firm puts the global value of business reputation at $7 trillion (Sword and the Script - January 20, 2026)
A practical guide to fatigue-proof internal comms cascades (Ragan Communications - January 20, 2026)
MWW HEALTH POLICY PULSE: Historic NYC Nurse Strike and Communications Imperatives for Health Systems (MikeWorldWide - January 13, 2026)
Summary Section:
The Scoop: Netflix co-CEO keeps calm but takes risk in NYT Q&A
By Courtney Blackann
PR Daily - January 16, 2026
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos recently gave a lengthy interview to the New York Times, shared in a Q&A format. Plus: Verizon offers outage credit; bots and misinformation run wild amid Iran crisis.
Black Executives and the Meaning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2026
PRsay - January 19, 2026
The PRSA Black Voices Affinity Group was created to strengthen community, advance Black leadership and bring cultural truth into professional spaces with excellence and intention. On this day, we honor Dr. King by centering voices from senior Black leaders across the communications industry.
The Agency of the Future: AI Redefines PR
5W Public Relations - January 18, 2026
Discover how AI is transforming PR agencies into data-driven consultancies with premium pricing strategies, client education tactics, and AI-powered services.
What high-performing PR teams understand about scale, systems, and trust
By Lucy-Jayne Love
Agility PR Solutions - January 20, 2026
High-performing PR teams understand that scale is not about producing more output; it is about building predictability, repeatability, and strategic control into how communication works. Without these foundations, growth only amplifies noise.
Reputation, Risk and Resilience: how organisations can navigate increasing complexity in the new abnormal of volatility and challenge
CIPR Crisis Comms - January 17, 2026
Crisis expert and CIPR Crisis Communications Network's Special Adviser, Rod Cartwright, is now synonymous with his ‘Reputation, Risk and Resilience’ report, which is in its third year and fast becoming the professional crisis communicator’s north star. His latest edition uniquely leverages 11 major reports, including from The Page Society, Deloitte, AXA, Edelman and the World Economic Forum, to give a three-dimensional analysis of the extraordinary complexity of the context that organisations now operate in, the forces that drive it and how they might best respond.
Edelman Trust Barometer Finds Insularity Reshaping Trust and Leadership
CommPRO - January 19, 2026
If it feels harder than ever to break through, build common ground, or even agree on basic facts, the 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer puts real data behind that instinct. Seven in 10 people globally now say they are unwilling or hesitant to trust someone who holds different values, perspectives, or sources of information.
Why you should never underestimate a comms professional
By Megan Dennison
Firefly - January 19, 2026
Season 4 of The Traitors is a reminder that comms skills are deeply transferable even in a pressured environment where one wrong sentence can send you packing.
What Disney World Taught Me About Public Relations
By Alison Bailin
HMA PR - January 16, 2026
Disney World offers more than magic, it also has a few solid lessons in public relations, too. Alison Bailin shares the rides that offer timely takeaways.
PR Roundup: Top Risks Revealed, FBI Searches Journalists, Wendy's Starts Beef With Bills
By Nicole Schuman
PRNEWS - January 15, 2026
From AI-fueled reputational landmines to renewed fears over press freedom—and even a fast-food brand poking a very devoted sports fandom—this week's PR Roundup underscores how quickly trust, tone and transparency can collide.
Headliners: Allison Worldwide Global CEO Wendy Lund
By Diana Marszalek
PRovoke Media - January 16, 2026
In this week's conversation with a PR leader who has recently hit the PRovoke Media headlines, we speak to Wendy Lund, who is Allison Worldwide's new global CEO and Stagwell's vice chair of health.
Big PR firm puts the global value of business reputation at $7 trillion
By Frank Strong, MA, MBA
Sword and the Script - January 20, 2026
"Reputation, which was once a soft PR metric, has become a quantifiable asset class," according to a new study, The Global Reputation Economy, by Burson. Burson is a global PR firm owned by WPP.
A practical guide to fatigue-proof internal comms cascades
By Sean Devlin
Ragan Communications - January 20, 2026
Internal comms cascades are designed to make messaging clearer. However, when every piece of communication becomes part of a cascade, or when cascades are composed of inflexible checklists, communicators run the risk of fatiguing their employees.
MWW HEALTH POLICY PULSE: Historic NYC Nurse Strike and Communications Imperatives for Health Systems
By Ryan Lilly
MikeWorldWide - January 13, 2026
The largest nurse strike in NYC history underscores urgent communications imperatives for health systems around care continuity, trust, and leadership.
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