The “return to office” fight isn’t about offices anymore. It’s about who gets to define productivity.
Three Fortune 100 CCOs told me this week they’re being asked to defend RTO mandates they privately think are wrong. The real battle is happening inside comms departments, not HR.
Read more →Boeing quietly restructures its crisis comms function for the third time in 18 months
The reorg signals Boeing sees reputational risk as a permanent operating cost, not an incident.
JPMorgan’s board approves $4.2B AI modernization plan with an unusual condition: an internal communications KPI
Private equity firms are hiring former network news anchors into portfolio company CEO seats
Watch this. It’s a bet that narrative fluency beats operational depth in this cycle.
Union Pacific’s new CEO sends a 2,400 word memo to employees on day one. It’s being studied inside six other Fortune 500s.
How 14 Fortune 500 CCOs are handling the new SEC cybersecurity disclosure rule: anonymized findings
Nine are pre-drafting disclosure language for incidents that haven’t happened yet. Three have moved the CISO into their weekly standing. Two think the whole regime will be quietly rolled back by 2027.
Read more →The “chief storyteller” title is dying. What’s replacing it is more interesting.
European associations are lobbying Brussels to treat trade group communications as regulated activity
If this passes, your association director’s job becomes a compliance role overnight.
Edelman lays off 4% globally; internal memo cites “the end of the integrated agency era”
Read the memo itself, not the coverage. The language is unusually direct.
I spent a week with the comms team that killed a $900M acquisition. Here’s what they did differently.
They didn’t leak. They didn’t spin. They wrote one memo, sent it once, and refused to do follow up interviews for 72 hours. The silence was the strategy.
Read more →Delta’s CCO is now reporting directly to the board’s risk committee: a quiet but important shift
Why three CCOs turned down the CMO plus CCO “unified” role this quarter
The title sounds like a promotion. The job is usually a demotion in disguise.