75% of #PRprofs say the letter from 60+ Minnesota-based biz was necessary/ good idea via @PRNews. The letter, organized by the local Chamber of Commerce, called for "immediate de-escalation" but did not mention ICE or Alex Pretti as companies tread lightly.
2026 Public Relations Predictions @prnewsonline.com #PRprofs
🔮 Human storytelling will become the differentiator in an AI-saturated world
🔮 Deepfakes and bots will dominate crisis scenarios
🔮 Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) will improve AI search algorithms
Lessons from 2025 for #PRprofs via @prnewsonline.com
‣ Jimmy Kimmel free speech fallout
‣ Brands embrace the opposite of cancel culture—and how to respond
‣ Substack leads evolution of digital newsletters
‣ Executives get human touch on LinkedIn posts
“X updates its terms to lay claim to the ‘Twitter’ trademark after newcomer’s challenge” (TechCrunch). #smle2026 #smc2027 #smprofs #prprofs
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“Critics from both political parties — as well as civil liberties and consumer rights groups — worry that banning state regulation would amount to a favor for big #AI companies, who enjoy little to no oversight …” (AP). #tech #law #smle2026 #smc2027 #smprofs #prprofs
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Public Relations 2026:
⦾ Look Beyond Performance Metrics and Focus on End Goals
⦾ Prioritize AI Discernment and Ethical Use
⦾ Leverage the Content Creator Economy
⦾ Bring Back the Human Voice
and more via @prnewsonline.com #PRprofs
“OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues” (AP). #AI #tech #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
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“As teachers, accountants and marketing professionals begin engaging with #AI chatbots and assistants to generate ideas and improve productivity, they’re also discovering the programs can make mistakes” (AP). #tech #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
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“But letting the chatbot become a friend or romantic partner could be another way for the world’s most valuable startup, which is losing more money than it makes, to turn a profit that could justify its $500 billion valuation” ( @AP ). #smprofs #prprofs #smle2026
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“The powerful A.I. model that #Sora is built on makes it simpler to produce clips, giving people an almost unlimited ability to generate as many A.I. videos as they want”(NYT). #AI #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/t...
AI can help #PRprofs upgrade daily media briefing reports on brand visibility, industry trends, competitive positioning with tailored insights for different audiences, article-level metrics & context, reader-friendly visual formats via @prnewsonline.com
“The company is taking action after #AI chatbot safety for young users has hit the headlines. The technology’s dangers have been recently highlighted by a number of cases in which teenagers took their lives after interacting with ChatGPT” (AP) #smprofs #prprofs #smle2026
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“Libs of Tik Tok, a social media account dedicated to mocking liberals, shared her comments with its 4.4 million followers on X. A week after the post, the university fired her” (Nebraska Examiner). #smprofs #prprofs #smle2026
nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/26/r...
“A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots” (AP). #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
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#AI voice clone: “It sounded robotic, lifeless even — shorn of the warmth, grace and believability that French voice actor Françoise Cadol has given to Croft since she started playing the character in 1996” ( @AP ). #tech #smle2026 #prprofs #smprofs
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“After the assassination of the young conservative activist, some are receiving blowback for expressing sadness or sympathy online” (NYT). #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/s...
“The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into several social media and artificial intelligence companies about the potential harms to children and teenagers who use their #AI chatbots as companions” (AP). #tech #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
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By the way, this also a good time to remind #PRProfs that we need to add accessibility to the curriculum. It never should have been, but it is officially not optional/extra work now. #PublicRelations
“Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who was married to Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin for 13 years, announced Friday on X that she has been hired by Astronomer as a spokesperson”!(AP). #smprofs #prprofs #aejmc25 #coldplayed
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“President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch Friday, a day after the newspaper published a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein” (AP). #media #smprofs #prprofs #smle2026
apnews.com/article/trum...
For more on the CLA Collective and its summer salons, see the following. #PRProfs (and others), let me know if you’d be interested in a subgroup focused on PR or professional/workplace writing. As someone who tried, I’d love talk balance w/ being hired by a client. cla.middcreate.net/news-and-eve...
Social Media Law and Ethics, second edition, is coming in August. #smprofs #prprofs #smle2026
www.routledge.com/Social-Media...
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James Montgomery Flagg, creator of the famous Uncle Sam poster, is undoubtedly rolling in his grave rn
Screenshot stating: “Practitioners spend long hours framing ideas, composing messages, writing content, checking phrases and words, all to ensure the discourses that end up circulating across audiences are the ‘right’ kinds of discourse, communicating messages that align with their objectives. Yet the importance of language formulation as a form of public relations practice is underplayed in empirical research, which has tended to focus on practitioner experiences and power rather than technical practices such as writing. As a result, there are still many unanswered questions about how practitioners understand and use discourse as a tool of their trade. We know little about how they work with language, how they make choices about the ways they craft texts, the roles of text and visual language, particularly in multimedia environments, and the degree to which their use of language is instinctive rather than conscious, a form of practice that has been absorbed through the rules of the occupational ‘game’ they have bought into” (p. 46).
Dr. Lee Edwards wrote about the same questions I’ve encountered in exploring language. How can we challenge students and practitioners to think more deeply about the words, language, rhetoric, and stories they put into the world? #PRProfs #CritPR
I’d also love to connect with any other scholars interested in PR’s language use and writing practices. I have been confused by the lack of scholarship so am looking sociolinguistics and Tech & Pro Comm to import ideas. We use words but do we question them? #PRProfs #CriticalPR
“The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office” (AP). #smprofs #prprofs #smle2026
“It has disrupted traditional television and given rise to a world of video creators who make content catering to every imaginable niche interest” (NYTimes). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t... #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smc2027 #smprofs #prprofs
