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In our ever-faster news cycle, hot-button topics dominate our media feeds, demanding our attention. The dilemma is knowing what to say and when—or whether silence is indeed golden.

Because of reduced news staffs and the increasing number of pubic relations people, it’s difficult enough to get your pitch read even in slow news times. But sending a pitch during a major breaking news story is certain to have it ignored.

Our fourth annual Agency Elite Top 100, highlighting the industry’s most innovative PR, marketing and communications firms in the business.

Protecting a company’s reputation requires its leaders to be judicious about where and how they engage and understand the threats that can draw them into contentious and politically harmful situations if they miscalculate public sentiment.

In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, PRNEWS reached out to industry professionals this year, asking what about PR they were thankful for. We received several dozen responses, each showing pride in the profession, from dedicated communicators.

PRSA released an AI guide that follows PRSA’s Code of Ethics to provide best practices on preventing and managing potential ethical challenges that may arise from the improper use of AI tools.

Both in public relations and on a game show like Jeopardy, things don’t always work out the way you want.   

This week PR Roundup looks at Thanksgiving content trends, a new AI and PR report from the University of Southern California, and how The Washington Post’s delivered a grisly story on gun violence without holding anything back. 

The process of precision pitching includes developing custom pitches that truly cater to the reporter or publication you’re reaching out to.

This overwhelming success can perhaps be attributed by the fact that director Greta Gerwig and the entire cast understood their main target audience—women and girls.