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PR Newswire forms a strategic partnership with AKA Partners that will provide AKA clients with exclusive value-added access to PR Newswire’s full suite of public relations and content distribution networks. The partnership will also give PR Newswire clients exclusive access to AKA’s Chicago-headquartered team of creative strategists, content producers, visual content editors, designers and media experts. “With their 25-year track record delivering breakthrough earned, paid and owned content for the world’s leading brands, we believe AKA enhances our services and offers further value for more brands to share their stories across all media,” said Nicole Guillot, President of PR Newswire.
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Reputation Doctor launches Executive Reputation Advisory, a new worldwide service offering targeting C-suite executives and independent directors of corporate boards. It provides individual consulting and counseling sessions specifically for those executives. According to Reputation Doctor president and CEO Mike Paul, “in the past, these professional services were only offered in yearly campaigns and usually focused on the entire business enterprise.” The new service is a response to the pressure and increasing fiduciary responsibility on C-suite executives and independent directors on corporate boards.
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APO Group, a Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, introduces its Communications Curriculum, a program designed to help comms professionals across Africa develop their skills in all aspects of public relations, media relations and content strategy. The pro-bono initiative has been running since May as part of APO Group’s long-standing partnerships with Rugby Africa, the governing body of African rugby, and the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), the institution that coordinates the Roman Catholic Church’s pastoral work in Africa. The curriculum will run for a period of 18 months and involves more than 130 trainees from 30 countries, who will receive more than 60 hours of online training. It also features appearances from guest speakers from such organizations as CNN, the BBC, Al Jazeera and Euronews.
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.
FGS Global is collaborating with The 350 Club, a closed community for board members and leaders of large global companies... Impact XM, a portfolio company of global investment firm The Riverside Company, acquires Jack Morton from Omnicom... Southwest Strategies Group, a San Diego-based firm with offices in Fresno, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco and Seattle, rebrands as Bodewell Group, unifying its family of agencies into a single strategic communications firm.
