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By Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz

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Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz analyze the month’s news in digital and social media for communications professionals.

Episode Date
FIR #510: Should Companies Embrace Shadow AI?
Apr 21, 2026
FIR #509: Does Corporate Content Need Copyright Protection?
Apr 14, 2026
FIR #508: Inside AI’s Human Raw Material Supply Chain
Apr 08, 2026
FIR #507: Should Nobody Really Ever Write with AI?
Mar 30, 2026
FIR #506: Battle of the Bots!
Mar 23, 2026
FIR #505: Social Media’s Big Shift
Mar 17, 2026
FIR #504: When Companies Blame Layoffs on AI — and Leave Communicators Holding the Bag
Mar 10, 2026
FIR #503: When Your Boss Throws You Under the Bus
Mar 02, 2026
FIR #502: Attack of the AI Agent!
Feb 23, 2026
FIR #501: AI and the Rise of the $400K Storyteller
Feb 16, 2026
FIR #500: When Harassment Policies Meet Deepfakes
Feb 09, 2026
FIR #499: When Saying Nothing Sends the Wrong Message
Feb 02, 2026
AI risk, trust, and preparedness in a polycrisis era
Jan 29, 2026
FIR #498: Can Business Be a Trust Broker in Today’s Insulated Society?
Jan 26, 2026
FIR #497: CEOs Wrest Control of AI
Jan 19, 2026
FIR #496: A Proposed New Definition of Public Relations Sparks Debate
Jan 14, 2026
FIR 21st Anniversary Celebration
Jan 05, 2026
FIR #495: Reddit, AI, and the New Rules of Communication
Jan 05, 2026
FIR #494: Is News’s Future Error-Riddled AI-Generated Podcasts, or “Information Stewards”?
Dec 29, 2025
FIR #493: How to (Unethically) Manufacture Significance and Influence
Dec 22, 2025
FIR #492: The Authenticity Divide in Omnicom Layoff Communication
Dec 15, 2025
AI and the Writing Profession with Josh Bernoff
Dec 10, 2025
FIR #491: Deloitte’s AI Verification Failures
Dec 09, 2025
FIR #490: What Does AI Read?
Dec 01, 2025
FIR #489: An Explosion of Thought Leadership Slop
Nov 17, 2025
FIR #488: Did a Soda Pop Make AI Slop?
Nov 10, 2025
FIR #487: Beyond the Churn — Slower Publishing, Deeper Thinking, Better Outcomes
Nov 05, 2025
FIR #486: Measuring Sentiment Won’t Help You Maintain Trust
Oct 27, 2025
FIR #485: Is It Time to Stop Trying to “Go Viral”?
Oct 21, 2025
FIR #484: Is Olivia Brown the Tilly Norwood of PR?
Oct 13, 2025
FIR #483: How Tylenol Handled a High-Profile Falsehood
Oct 09, 2025
FIR #482: What Will It Take to Stop the Slop?
Sep 29, 2025
FIR #481: The Em Dash Panic — AI, Writing, and Misguided Assumptions
Sep 24, 2025
FIR Interview: Generative Engine Optimisation with Stephanie Grober
Sep 16, 2025
FIR #480: Reflections on AI, Ethics, and the Role of Communicators
Sep 09, 2025
FIR #479: Hacking AI Optimization vs. Doing the Hard Work
Sep 01, 2025
FIR #478: When Silence Isn’t Golden
Aug 25, 2025
FIR #477: Deslopifying Wikipedia
Aug 18, 2025
FIR #476: Rewiring the Consulting Business for AI
Aug 12, 2025
FIR #475: Algorithms Got You Down? Get Retro with RSS!
Aug 04, 2025
FIR Interview: Monsignor Paul Tighe on AI, Ethics, and the Role of Humanity
Jul 29, 2025
FIR #474: AI is Redefining Public Relations
Jul 28, 2025
FIR #473: The Digital Employee Experience is the Message
Jul 22, 2025
FIR #472: The Evolution of Trust
Jul 16, 2025
FIR #471: Can You Be Influential and Anonymous at the Same Time?
Jul 07, 2025
FIR #470: Creative Commons Proposes an AI Copyright Solution
Jun 30, 2025
FIR #469: Is Internal Communication Failing?
Jun 23, 2025
FIR #468: New Threats to Reputation
Jun 17, 2025
FIR #467: Mary Meeker’s 2025 AI Trends Report
Jun 05, 2025
FIR #466: Still Hallucinating After All These Years
May 26, 2025