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Bollywood's negative PR surge; How media monitoring can supercharge your career; What PR teams get wrong about GEO; more!

Feb 10, 2026

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The Moltbook Moment: A Turning Point for Communications
By Kiersten Fries, Chief Strategy Officer at Allison Worldwide
PRNEWS - February 9, 2026
The recent emergence of Moltbook, an experimental AI-native platform built and operated by a small group of independent technologists, has sparked many strong emotions among communicators—a combination of deep apprehension and intense intrigue.

The economy of outrage: Maths and psychology behind Bollywood's negative PR surge
By Sana Farzeen
India Today - February 10, 2026
As the line between organic backlash and manufactured outrage blurs, Bollywood faces a new era of negative PR.

The Problem with 'Tough Guys' and Apologies
By Paul Oestreicher
O'Dwyer's - February 9, 2026
For some leaders, refusing to apologize is a sign of strength. Apologies are often seen as a weakness or as proof that a leader has lost control of the narrative. The louder the criticism, the more they resist saying "I'm sorry."

What PR teams get wrong about GEO
By Jennifer Jones-Mitchell, CEO of HumanDrivenAI
PR Daily - February 9, 2026
Most guidance around generative engine optimization is borrowing the wrong playbook. It treats AI like search.

In the Age of AI, Tell More Stories
By Ann Wylie
PRsay - February 9, 2026
The percentage of LinkedIn job postings in the U.S. that include the term "storyteller" doubled last year, according to The Wall Street Journal. Some 50,000 listings under marketing and more than 20,000 job listings under media and communications mentioned the term. "The AI slop of it all creates so much distrust," Steve Hirsch, co-founder of Hirsch Leatherwood, told The Wall Street Journal.

X debuts real-time Super Bowl ad conversation tracking
By Eleanor Hawkins
Axios - February 9, 2026
For the first time, X tracked conversation about this year's Super Bowl ads in real time as it seeks to re-cement itself as the digital town square.

Super Bowl Halftime Showdown: What Social Data Reveals About Modern Polarization
Agility PR Solutions - February 9, 2026
For communicators, the Super Bowl is no longer just a broadcast event. It is one of the few remaining moments when millions of people are focused on the same cultural object at the same time—and social platforms become a real-time mirror of how fragmented that attention has become.

Exclusives vs. advances vs. embargoes | On Top of PR [PODCAST]
Axia Public Relations - February 10, 2026
Learn the ethical and practical differences between exclusives, advances, and embargoes and how to use them correctly in media relations.

A Strategic Conversation on Velocity and Survival with Aditya Nair
By Mike Klein
CommPRO - February 10, 2026
Three forces are colliding—AI’s acceleration, demographic workforce shifts, and mounting pressure on hierarchical decision-making—and their convergence doesn’t modify existing paradigms. It overthrows them.

How Media Monitoring Can Supercharge Your Career
By David H. Lasker
Culpwrit - February 9, 2026
Young PR professionals are working in a brand-new environment compared to before. The world and how information is spread are completely different than at any time in history. News is disseminated not only at nearly the speed of light, but also in so many ways and on so many channels that it’s taken on a life of its own.

Press Release Distribution Terms Explained: A Beginner's Guide to PR, SEO, and GEO
By Issac Morgan
EIN Presswire - February 9, 2026
Terms like syndication, GEO, and distribution reports can sound like a foreign language. For those who find themselves navigating uncharted territory, we’ve broken down some of the common jargon you’ll see on EIN Presswire and other press release distribution platforms.

Omnicom To Merge Golin And Ketchum, Fold Porter Novelli Into FleishmanHillard
By Diana Marszalek
PRovoke Media - February 9, 2026
Omnicom is merging Golin and Ketchum to create a single brand agency, a major consolidation inside Omnicom Public Relations Group as the holding company begins reshaping its communications portfolio in the wake of its acquisition of Interpublic.

A Non-Comprehensive (But Pretty Damn Good) Deep Dive into Pitching WSJ
By Tanya Hayre Gillogley
On Background - January 23, 2026
WSJ Talent Lab to WSJ Free Expression to WSJ Pro VC to WSJ CFO Journal. You'll be sick of the WSJ after reading this.

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