Read some of today’s best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Martha Stewart Promoted Her QVC Line With a Homelessness Costume. Critics Called It 'Ridiculously Offensive' (Inc. Magazine - November 2, 2026)
Announcing the finalists for the 2026 Video & Visual Awards (Ragan Communications - November 3, 2026)
AI Influence, Not Control: Five Takeaways From Muck Rack's 2026 Generative Pulse Summit (PRNEWS - November 2, 2026)
Are We Creating for Audiences or for Algorithms? (MediaVillage - October 29, 2026)
Why SEO teams need earned media | On Top of PR (Axia Public Relations - November 3, 2026) [PODCAST]
Analysis Paralysis Has a Cure (CommPRO - November 3, 2026)
Make AI Tell You What AI Says About a Brand, Which Facts It Has Wrong, and the Knowledge Base That Could Change Your Entire AI Reputation Strategy (PR@ctical - November 2, 2026)
PRovoke Global 26: What's Changed in Healthcare Comms and What Remains the Same (PRovoke - October 31, 2026)
PR Fumbled SEO. Don't Fumble AI Visibility. (Spin Sucks - November 3, 2026)
Why reputation is the new ROI (Influence (UK) - October 30, 2026)
What The Growing Personal Agent Craze Means For CMOs (Forbes - November 3, 2026)
AI: Cause for Adaptation, Not Extinction (O'Dwyer's - November 3, 2026)
5 lessons from Jim Macnamara's new measurement handbook you can use today (PR Daily - November 2, 2026)
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Summary Section:
Martha Stewart Promoted Her QVC Line With a Homelessness Costume. Critics Called It 'Ridiculously Offensive'
By Annabel Burba
Inc. Magazine - November 2, 2026
Martha Stewart faced fierce backlash after wearing a homelessness Halloween costume to promote her QVC line. Here's what happened.
Announcing the finalists for the 2026 Video & Visual Awards
Ragan Communications - November 3, 2026
This year's finalists gave audiences a reason to stop scrolling and stay until the final frame.
AI Influence, Not Control: Five Takeaways From Muck Rack's 2026 Generative Pulse Summit
By Nicole Schuman
PRNEWS - November 2, 2026
The overall theme of the Generative AI Summit revealed that communicators can't control what AI says about their brands, but they can influence what those citations are built from.
Are We Creating for Audiences or for Algorithms?
By Kevin Abreu
MediaVillage - October 29, 2026
Are algorithms shaping the stories we tell? Kevin Abreu explores how creators can use audience data while preserving creative judgment and meaningful connection.
Why SEO teams need earned media | On Top of PR [PODCAST]
Axia Public Relations - November 3, 2026
In this solocast, On Top of PR host Jason Mudd discusses how public relations drives awareness, credibility, trust, and demand to create measurable business outcomes beyond media coverage.
Analysis Paralysis Has a Cure
By Johna Burke
CommPRO - November 3, 2026
Jim Macnamara's Handbook for Planning and Evaluating Communication offers communication professionals valuable insights into measuring impact, demonstrating results and strengthening strategic communication.
Make AI Tell You What AI Says About a Brand, Which Facts It Has Wrong, and the Knowledge Base That Could Change Your Entire AI Reputation Strategy
By Sarah Evans
PR@ctical - November 2, 2026
One prompt, eight questions, two runs, one page you can share with clients and brands.
PRovoke Global 26: What's Changed in Healthcare Comms and What Remains the Same
By Paul Holmes
PRovoke - October 31, 2026
Shant Salakian, head of oncology public affairs at AbbVie, discussed the need to separate the signal from the noise, the benefits and limitations of AI, and why patients remain central.
PR Fumbled SEO. Don't Fumble AI Visibility.
By Gini Dietrich, Founder and CEO, Spin Sucks
Spin Sucks - November 3, 2026
AI visibility is PR's third chance to own work that's ours. Gini Dietrich describes how communicators can claim it through 2027 planning.
Why reputation is the new ROI
By Hannah Craig
Influence (UK) - October 30, 2026
It's no longer just: Are we visible? It is also: what are we known for, and do people and platforms trust us enough to recommend us?
What The Growing Personal Agent Craze Means For CMOs
By Satya Krishnaswamy, Field CTO at Typeface
Forbes - November 3, 2026
Winning over personal AI agents is more about structured information, consistent brand signals and a clear value proposition.
AI: Cause for Adaptation, Not Extinction
By Ian Chaffee
O'Dwyer's - November 3, 2026
We’ll see what the numbers look like, or how essential it feels, when agencies or pros have to start paying real subscription fees to continue to support the ever-ballooning, ever-bubbling AI industry as data center costs become more real and compute costs come due. Will AI become as essential a paid service as old-fashioned media lists, media monitoring or email marketing? Can it really be an in toto replacement?
5 lessons from Jim Macnamara's new measurement handbook you can use today
By Johna Burke
PR Daily - November 2, 2026
Drawing on decades of research and experience, Macnamara challenges persistent myths and provides practical guidance grounded in evidence, not another fashionable formula.
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