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The winners of the 2026 PRNEWS Platinum Awards were announced during the program’s annual gala celebration, which took place Tuesday, October 6, at The Lighthouse venue in New York City. Nearly 400 PR and comms professionals, including the People of the Year and Agency Elite 120, gathered to honor the people, teams and campaigns that exemplify industry excellence.

The PRSA Code of Ethics offers a foundation for communicators for addressing ethical dilemmas long before they become a major problem.

Jack O’Brien, the Executive Editor at Medical Marketing and Media, details the traits and attributes a publicist should have to earn journalists’ trust and much more.

When a client appears on a podcast and does nothing to promote it, the deepest cost is not a missed marketing opportunity. It is a relationship cost, and it is charged to the practitioner who made the booking, not to the client.

Twenty-five years ago, on Sept. 11, 2001, the world changed in an instant. For communicators, that moment carried a particular weight. They are, by profession, the people tasked with finding words when words feel impossible.

PR roundup covers what happens when Anthropic employees publicly confirm its risks, new research showing that communicators are increasingly burned out and eyeing the door, and how TEMPTATIONS turned the beloved “bodega cat” into a textbook experiential PR campaign.

In this episode of “Five Questions With…,” Dini von Mueffling discusses her PR work with the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the most prominent Epstein survivor and her family.

PRNEWS announced its 2026 People of the Year honorees—an accomplished group of leaders, innovators and rising talent redefining the future of PR and communications.

As the beloved and flawed characters from “The Bear” came together in the final season, many PR professionals perhaps felt a tug at the heartstrings: a sense of familiarity between their working lives and those of the restaurant industry.

The most reliable way to draw more attention to bad media coverage is to complain about it publicly.