Read some of today’s best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Influencers Waited In Massive Lines for Khloe Kardashian's Good American Pop-Up—Only to Be Turned Away (Inc. Magazine - October 19, 2026)
What Happens After the Deal? Why Integration Can Make or Break a PR Acquisition (O'Dwyer's - October 26, 2026)
'Serve everyone's needle': why proving comms' value keeps getting harder (PR Daily - October 26, 2026)
LinkedIn Lets Companies Remove Impostor Accounts. Comms Should Own It. (PRNEWS - October 26, 2026)
What's Now, What's Next and What's Over: Comms Leaders Take Stock at PRSA ICON 2026 (PRsay - October 26, 2026)
What E-E-A-T Means in the AI Slop Era (Spin Sucks - October 27, 2026)
Corporate diplomacy is the new comms mandate, says Edelman (PRmoment (UK) - October 21, 2026)
What PR Pioneers Say About PR Today | On Top of PR (Axia Public Relations - October 27, 2026) [PODCAST]
PRovoke Global Summit: CCOs Face Growing Demands, Limited Resources and Pressure to Prove Their Value (PRovoke - October 26, 2026)
What your comms channels and tech tell employees about company culture (Ragan Communications - October 26, 2026)
11 Changes Companies Are Making In Their 2026 Holiday Comms (Forbes - October 26, 2026)
Investor Relations vs Public Relations: Who Owns What (Everything-PR - October 27, 2026)
What Messages Will Resonate in the Midterms? (CommPRO - October 26, 2026)
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Influencers Waited In Massive Lines for Khloe Kardashian’s Good American Pop-Up—Only to Be Turned Away
By Annabel Burba
Inc. Magazine - October 19, 2026
Content creators are calling the event ‘a hot mess.’ Inside the VIP pop-up disaster that turned an exclusive brand preview into a PR nightmare.
What Happens After the Deal? Why Integration Can Make or Break a PR Acquisition
By Rick Gould , Managing Partner of Gould+Partners
O’Dwyer’s - October 26, 2026
When buyers and sellers negotiate a PR agency transaction, most of the attention naturally goes to valuation, the amount paid at closing, employment terms and the legal documents. Those issues are critical. But signing the deal is not the finish line. The real test begins after closing.
‘Serve everyone’s needle’: why proving comms’ value keeps getting harder
By Mike Prokopeak
PR Daily - October 26, 2026
Communicators need to be more ambitious about demonstrating their business value.
LinkedIn Lets Companies Remove Impostor Accounts. Comms Should Own It.
By Mike Hakob
PRNEWS - October 26, 2026
LinkedIn introduced three tools to improve trust on its platform. Verified Page admins can remove known impostors, while a pilot with selected companies requires workplace verification to link a profile to a Company Page.
What’s Now, What’s Next and What’s Over: Comms Leaders Take Stock at PRSA ICON 2026
PRsay - October 26, 2026
At PRSA ICON 2026 in Orlando, Fla., Thomas Bennett III, SVP at FleishmanHillard and Co-chair of the PRSA Black Voices Affinity Group, brought together three senior communications executives for a candid examination of the forces reshaping the profession during “2026 Communications Trends: What’s Now, What’s Next, What’s Over?”
What E-E-A-T Means in the AI Slop Era
By Gini Dietrich, Founder and CEO of Spin Sucks
Spin Sucks - October 27, 2026
Gini Dietrich on what E-E-A-T means in the AI slop era: 92% of marketers use AI, but those who are winning add their people, process, and culture.
Corporate diplomacy is the new comms mandate, says Edelman
PRmoment (UK) - October 21, 2026
Corporate Affairs has spent decades fighting for a seat at the top table. Now that comms leaders finally have it, the nature of the job has fundamentally shifted: the challenge is no longer just explaining decisions after the fact, but actively shaping what an enterprise is permitted to do in the first place.
What PR Pioneers Say About PR Today | On Top of PR [PODCAST]
By Jason Mudd
Axia Public Relations - October 27, 2026
Shelley Spector of the Museum of Public Relations shares what PR pioneers can teach today’s communicators.
PRovoke Global Summit: CCOs Face Growing Demands, Limited Resources and Pressure to Prove Their Value
By Diana Marszalek
PRovoke - October 26, 2026
Communications leaders at PRovoke Media’s Global Summit discuss expanding responsibilities, changing talent needs and the challenge of demonstrating the value of crises that never happened.
What your comms channels and tech tell employees about company culture
By Sean Devlin
Ragan Communications - October 26, 2026
Internal comms can say all the right things about an organization’s culture. But if the channels and tools carrying those messages feel outdated, employees will notice. As AI raises expectations for workplace technology, the gap gets harder to hide.
11 Changes Companies Are Making In Their 2026 Holiday Comms
By Forbes Communications Council
Forbes - October 26, 2026
Top comms leaders and their teams are instead prioritizing personal connection, forward momentum and genuine value that will last long after December ends. Eleven members of Forbes Communications Council share the changes they’re making in their 2026 holiday communications to better connect with their audiences.
Investor Relations vs Public Relations: Who Owns What
Everything-PR - October 27, 2026
Investor relations vs public relations: audiences, rules and ownership of earnings, M&A and crises. See where the two overlap and what DraftKings got wrong.
What Messages Will Resonate in the Midterms?
By Dominic Calabrese
CommPRO - October 26, 2026
As the midterms approach, CommPRO turns to communication professionals and political observers for their perspectives on the messages and strategies shaping the election.
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