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Ballard Partners expands its Ballard Global Alliance by forming a strategic partnership with Global Nexus, a government and public affairs firm with offices in Mexico City and Washington, DC. The partnership is intended to strengthen Ballard’s ability to serve clients across the Western Hemisphere. For Global Nexus, the collaboration enhances its operational capacity and builds on its presence in Washington, DC, expanding its reach across other key US policy hubs. The firm will jointly offer a suite of government relations services in the US, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, including public policy advocacy, regulatory affairs analysis, publicaffairs, risk and crisis management, and international market consulting. “Together, we are positioned to deliver enhanced expertise and a broader suite of government affairs capabilities throughout the United States and Latin America,” said Ballard Partners president Brian Ballard.
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The PR World Alliance announced its 2025-2026 board at the organization’s annual meeting in Tokyo, which was held earlier this month. Anders Wallqvist, who is chairman of Nowa Empower (Gothenburg, Sweden) and CEO and partner of Thinc Collective, will serve as board chairman, with Custom Media (Tokyo) CEO Robert Heldt coming on as secretary. Denterlein (Boston) founder and CEO Geri Denterlein joins the board as treasurer, and Davor Huic, director of Briefing Communications (Zagreb, Croatia) remains on the board as head of programming. The annual meeting’s events included PR Gatekeepers in Asia, a multinational panel of agencies from Korea, India and Japan discussing how PR is practiced in their markets and contrasting it to industry practices in other parts of the world, as well as a roundtable discussion of artificial intelligence. “We’re all very excited to see the organization strengthen further under Anders’ leadership and that of the board elected in Tokyo,”said PRWA past chairman Henry Feintuch.
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Notified, which provides fully integrated platforms for investor relations and public relations communications, releases a set of enhancements to IR Hub, its all-in-one platform for earnings calls, regulatory filings, IR websites, press releases and analytics. IR Hub users will now be able to access IRIS, a new AI-powered assistant, from within the platform. IRIS aims to streamline the analysis of more than 30,000 investor event transcripts each year to equip IR teams with timely, data-backed insights. Eligible Notified clients will also receive a dedicated IR Customer Experience Manager—a point of contact who works as an extension of investor relations teams. “With IR Hub, we help teams move faster, uncover insights more easily and tell their corporate narratives with confidence,” said Notified CEO Erik Carlson.
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Lewis Line Public Relations, a Gen-Z-owned and operated firm headquartered in Los Angeles, is launched by publicist Charlie Lewis, who was most recently at Lucky Break Public Relations. The firm works with clients across the music, entertainment, fashion, social impact and lifestyle industries, leveraging an approach that it says blends traditional PR expertise with the digital fluency and cultural intuition of Gen-Z. Recording artist Ellise, who has worked with Lewis Line on an album launch, said that Lewis “handled every press detail with creativity and hustle, crafting our narrative, pitching the right outlets, lining up interviews, and helping me share my story in a profound way.”
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.
