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Our weekly roundup of news, trends and personnel announcements in the PR and communications field. This week’s stories include one about fakenews, culture changes at Uber and Wells Fargo, new features for Instagram and a promotion for Coca-Cola sustainability officer Bea Perez.

In both of the Arthur W. Page Society “New CCO” Podcasts she has hosted, Home Depot CCO Stacey Tank asks her guest a version of this unlimited resources question: “If you had an unlimited budget, what would you do differently?” In an interview after we had exclusive access to the second podcast, we decided to turn the tables on Tank, asking her the same question. In addition, we queried Tank and Aflac CCO Catherine Hernandez-Blades, Tank’s guest on the second podcast that will be available in mid-April, about a theme that runs throughout their session: how brands integrate digital and traditional communications.

Influencer marketing is undoubtably one of the hottest trends of 2017. But since this avenue is typically available only to brands with huge budgets to spend on big-name celebrities and well-connected media publishers, smaller firms often assume they can’t afford it. Not true: Here are five ways to make influencer marketing work for those with limited resources.

Our regular feature that looks at trends in communications and PR. This week we hear from Gordon Lambourne, VP, communications, National Restaurant Association Educational Fund.

It’s not that your content sucks…in fact, it might even be pretty darn good. It’s just that every minute of every day, there are 1,300 more blog posts, 360,000 more tweets, 1.7 million more Facebook posts and 2 million more videos uploaded to YouTube. And that only accounts for a few channels. Which means your content is simply being drowned out in an ever-quickening deluge of words and images. So what’s a content marketer to do? We suggest the following seven ways to stand out from the crowd.

The media’s fascination with Donald Trump’s candidacy began in 2015. It continued in 2016, when during the 24 weeks of presidential primaries (Jan. 1-June 7) “there was not a single week when Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or John Kasich topped Trump’s level of coverage,” a July 2016 study from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy says. Even after Cruz and Kasich quit the race in early May, essentially ceding the race to Trump, the businessman received more coverage than either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, the Shorenstein report says. Jump to the past two-and-a-half months and communicators can legitimately be forgiven if they feel like social media platforms and the media have adopted a philosophy of “all Trump all the time.” How can PR pros break through this clutter?

Content is one of the best tools in your toolkit to tell your brand story the way you’d want the press to write it, but the better you immerse yourself in the world and jargon of your or your client’s industry, the harder it is to draft content that is accessible and approachable for the general public. Abbott was facing just such a problem. It wanted to re-engage young adults with the prospect of getting LASIK surgery, a highly technical and FDA-regulated procedure. It turned to Weber Shandwick. Together, the companies navigated the challenges of un-complicating a nuanced and intimidating product and learned a lot along the way.

As you seek entry-level talent for your organization do you wonder what college students are learning and how it is priming them for PR careers? To inform you, the senior executive, about this we asked newly minted PR pros Farley Fitzgerald, communications manager, National Geographic Society, and Ariel Miller, account manager, INK PR, to share their thoughts. Their former professor, Dr. Julie Lellis, also provides insight on how good academic programs should shape our generation’s best communicators.

How does one become a next-generation CCO? Answering that question is the idea behind The New CCO Podcast, a series of conversations between CCOs from the Arthur W. Page Society. An advance copy of the series’ first podcast was made available to PRNews Pro. Below are some of its highlights.

How has a Trump presidency changed the way millennials think about helping to do good works for society? That issue was in the forefront of millennial panelists’ minds as they discussed the importance of brands doing social good. The millennials were given a platform when W2O Group hosted Firing Up Emerging Leaders (FUEL), Feb. 28 in New York City during Social Media Week.