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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.
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FIR #500: When Harassment Policies Meet Deepfakes
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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FIR #499: When Saying Nothing Sends the Wrong Message
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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AI risk, trust, and preparedness in a polycrisis era
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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FIR #498: Can Business Be a Trust Broker in Today’s Insulated Society?
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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FIR #497: CEOs Wrest Control of AI
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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FIR #496: A Proposed New Definition of Public Relations Sparks Debate
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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FIR 21st Anniversary Celebration
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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FIR #495: Reddit, AI, and the New Rules of Communication
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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FIR #494: Is News’s Future Error-Riddled AI-Generated Podcasts, or “Information Stewards”?
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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FIR #493: How to (Unethically) Manufacture Significance and Influence
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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FIR #492: The Authenticity Divide in Omnicom Layoff Communication
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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AI and the Writing Profession with Josh Bernoff
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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FIR #491: Deloitte’s AI Verification Failures
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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FIR #490: What Does AI Read?
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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FIR #489: An Explosion of Thought Leadership Slop
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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FIR #488: Did a Soda Pop Make AI Slop?
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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FIR #487: Beyond the Churn — Slower Publishing, Deeper Thinking, Better Outcomes
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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FIR #486: Measuring Sentiment Won’t Help You Maintain Trust
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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FIR #485: Is It Time to Stop Trying to “Go Viral”?
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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FIR #484: Is Olivia Brown the Tilly Norwood of PR?
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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FIR #483: How Tylenol Handled a High-Profile Falsehood
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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FIR #482: What Will It Take to Stop the Slop?
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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FIR #481: The Em Dash Panic — AI, Writing, and Misguided Assumptions
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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FIR Interview: Generative Engine Optimisation with Stephanie Grober
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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FIR #480: Reflections on AI, Ethics, and the Role of Communicators
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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FIR #479: Hacking AI Optimization vs. Doing the Hard Work
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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FIR #478: When Silence Isn’t Golden
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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FIR #477: Deslopifying Wikipedia
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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FIR #476: Rewiring the Consulting Business for AI
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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FIR #475: Algorithms Got You Down? Get Retro with RSS!
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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FIR Interview: Monsignor Paul Tighe on AI, Ethics, and the Role of Humanity
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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FIR #474: AI is Redefining Public Relations
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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FIR #473: The Digital Employee Experience is the Message
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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FIR #472: The Evolution of Trust
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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FIR #471: Can You Be Influential and Anonymous at the Same Time?
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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FIR #470: Creative Commons Proposes an AI Copyright Solution
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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FIR #469: Is Internal Communication Failing?
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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FIR #468: New Threats to Reputation
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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FIR #467: Mary Meeker’s 2025 AI Trends Report
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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FIR #466: Still Hallucinating After All These Years
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May 26, 2025 |
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FIR #465: The Trust-News-Video Podcast PR Trifecta
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May 21, 2025 |
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FIR #464: Research Finds Disclosing Use of AI Erodes Trust
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May 12, 2025 |
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FIR #463: Delivering Value with Generative AI’s “Endless Right Answers”
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May 07, 2025 |
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FIR #462: Cheaters Never Prosper (Unless They’re Paid $5 Million for Their Tool)
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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FIR #461: YouTube Trends Toward Virtual Influencers and AI-Generated Videos
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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FIR #460: The Return of Toxic Workplaces and the “Big Boss” Era
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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FIR #459: AI Transforms Content from Passive to Interactive
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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FIR #458: Preparing Managers to Manage Human-AI Hybrid Teams
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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FIR #457: Communicating Tariff Impacts
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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FIR #456: Does AI Put Communication Expertise At Risk?
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Mar 24, 2025 |