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Current Global launches its “Accessible by Design” initiative, ensuring that all content and campaigns will be designed to be inclusive of people of all abilities, such as those with sight, hearing, speech and cognitive impairments. Current has developed a comprehensive set of guidelines and an accessibility toolkit, which has been rolled out to its global team. In 2021, the agency also plans to offer clients an “Accessible by Design” audit to determine the level of accessibility in an organization’s communication efforts and help them chart a path toward increased inclusion. “Every day in our industry content is published that’s inaccessible to many, but it doesn’t have to be this way,” said Current Global co-CEO George Coleman. “Not only do we have a moral duty to change this, it makes clear commercial sense for our clients.”
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J Public Relations has opened offices in Nashville and Toronto. The Nashville office will be headed by senior director Heidi Baldwin Doak and the Toronto office will be led by senior vice president Kristin Moller. The Nashville location will complement the agency's client expansion through North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas and Nashville in particular. It will have a team member dedicated to content creation and social media strategy, alongside team members dedicated to communications and public relations strategies. JPR’s Toronto office will supplement the agency’s work for clients in Canada. “Having an office in Toronto enables us to be right in front of Canada’s top journalists and tastemakers, and foster meaningful relationships in the markets that matter most to our clients,” said JPR partner Sarah Evans. The two offices will join JPR’s offices in New York City, San Diego, Los Angeles and London, in addition to its satellite offices in Denver and Scottsdale.
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Cornerstone Government Affairs is setting up shop in Denver and Oklahoma City, as well as launching capabilities in Dover, DE. The Denver office, which establishes the firm’s Mountain West presence, will be led by Jim Driscoll, former senior legislative advisor to Colorado governors John Hickenlooper and Bill Ritter, Jr. Prior to joining Cornerstone, he founded Jim Driscoll Consulting. Cornerstone’s Oklahoma office will be led by Brian Hackler, former deputy chief of staff and state director for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK). The launch of Delaware capabilities will be led by Ellen Valentino, a current senior consultant at the firm who has more than 30 years of experience lobbying in Maryland, Delaware and DC. “With this expansion, we remain committed to being an industry leader in the state and local marketplace and will continue to provide clients across the Middle Atlantic, South, and, now, Mountain West, a fully integrated offering,” said Cornerstone managing director Campbell Kaufman.
Precision Strategies, an integrated strategy and marketing agency with offices in Washington and New York, acquires Firehouse Strategies, a DC-based public affairs firm... AVENIR GLOBAL acquires London-based Thinks Insight & Strategy... Good Company, which bills itself as a “cultural engineering firm,” is launched by DJ Hardy, a veteran of Johannesburg-based communications consultancy arxna and M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment and Casey Stickles, who has worked at 5WPR, Rubenstein and MWW.
PSC (Princeton Strategic Communications) acquires Nonprofit Partners... CG Life launches 24/364, a cultural brand platform intended to drive awareness, connection and action aimed at keeping rare disease at the forefront of the health and social conversation... Interluxe Group, which focuses on brand experiences and in-person activations; Quinn, a strategic communications agency; and media and digital agency North & Warren are uniting under the Interluxe Group banner.
KITH, which provides corporate reputation and crisis preparation services, is now owned by CEO Stephanie Craig, who has been with the firm since 2021... The Marketing Cloud, a part of Stagwell, introduces several expansions to Agent Cloud, the platform it launched in October 2025 to simplify access to its AI tools and marketing assistants.... Notified launches its AI Press Release Optimizer.
V2 Communications launches its AI Visibility Solution and Earned Media at Scale, two service offerings designed to help companies increase visibility and credibility in generative search... The Public Relations Global Network brings on Greenough Communications as its Boston member agency... DBC is relaunching The DBC Industry Calendar as a free site to help communicators more easily discover relevant events and awards in the cluttered event landscape driven by the growth of webinars and online events. 
PAN releases new original research showing that a significant share of B2B citations surfaced by ChatGPT are inaccurate, misattributed or entirely fabricated, introducing a new credibility risk for brands... REQ, which has offices in DC and San Diego, opens in Phoenix... Notified introduces Market Intelligence, an addition to its all-in-one IR Hub, which gives IR teams a more streamlined way to prepare for earnings calls.
