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Exploring the digital drivers behind the BLM movement's unprecedented expansion
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Brandstormers: Featuring Rite Aid’s Jeff Olson
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CommsTech: Unlocking PR’s potential
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Pinterest expands AR makeup try-on feature
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W2O plucks a rival’s digital chief, two other tech vets
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PR and marketing: Snapshot of an evolving relationship
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Nasdaq promotes Jeremy Skule to chief strategy officer
Skule oversees the exchange’s marcomms division as part of the role.

Adjusting the Super Bowl earned media playbook for a virtual radio row
In-person interviews with players, coaches and celebrities will be sparse at Super Bowl LV in Tampa. Here’s what agencies are planning instead.

White House press secretary confronts war on truth
Obama era press veteran Jen Psaki quickly demonstrated that communication with the American people and the rest of the world will be very different under the Biden administration.

DKC launches offering to connect clients with Black culture
Called DKCulture, the group will also advise clients on internal DEI issues.

Is the op-ed dead?
Are guest columns still relevant? Or should media brands follow Axios’ lead and abandon opinion pieces?

Breakfast briefing: 5 things for PR pros to know Friday morning
More Biden executive orders; Kellyanne Conway’s prose on power; Google may cancel Australia; Tokyo Olympics are OK; Iran threatens Trump.

Four Super Bowl trends to watch
It will be different but all eyes will still be on the nation’s “sports and advertising holiday.”

The PR Week: 1.22.2021: Mark Penn, MDC and Stagwell
Mark Penn talks the Biden inauguration, comms lessons for the new administration and his plans for a combined MDC-Stagwell.

Krispy Kreme gave out 30 million free doughnuts during the pandemic
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Omnicom launches omniearnedID analytics platform
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Foursquare hires Michele Morelli to oversee marketing, comms
She joins the location-based app and location technology company from Toluna.

Coronavirus Briefing: Mask mandates, vaccine distribution chaos, information everywhere
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Four questions to ask in building COVID-19 vaccine messaging
Effective communications about the importance of vaccination have never been more important.

Breakfast Briefing: 5 things for PR pros to know on Thursday morning
Psaki pledges to bring ‘truth and transparency’ to press briefings; Biden’s big warning to his staffers.

Lindsay Peterson named MD of Golin Canada
It’s a newly created position in one of Golin’s fastest-growing countries by revenue.

PR pros should heed Biden's call for truth
This is a moment for communicators to reexamine what truth means in our profession, says Jennifer Scott.

New White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asks Americans what they want to know
The Biden administration’s top spokesperson says she will answer questions in a video this week.
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