For Immediate Release

Hosted ByNeville Hobson and Shel Holtz

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


All Episodes

FIR #446: Navigating Grievance — Insights from the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer

Trust in business and CEOs remains higher than other entities, but it’s falling

FIR #445: Media Relations in a Turbulent Media Landscape

Publishers plan to produce a lot more content, but not more articles

FIR #444: Preparing for Trump 2.0

Media outlets and communicators are strategizing in anticipation of chaos and challenges

FIR #443: From RSS to ChatGPT — FIR’s 20-Year Tech Communications Chronicle

A lot has changed in 20 years. FIR has been there to report on it all.

FIR #442: Justin Baldoni’s Attack on Blake Lively Explains Why PR Is a Dirty Word

The tactics brought to bear against the actor violated just about every ethics code imaginable.

FIR #441: PR, AI, and Social Media Are All Shook Up

Seismic shifts in the online world and in media are roiling the PR world

FIR #440: Experimenting for Influence

Experiments as part of a marketing campaign can sway customers

FIR #439: Agentic AI Tops Digital Trends for 2025

Autonomous task completion is coming. Are you ready?

FIR #436: Nothin’ But Bluesky (and TikTok and Threads and Instagram and WhatsApp…)

Does the surge of new Bluesky users suggest it’s the heir to Twitter?