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— AI news for communicators: A biweekly column
— Advocating for comms budget in 'the land of unfunded mandates’
— An employee newsletter template for monthly company updates
— A closer look at Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy comms
— AI can learn emotions. Are you ready to train it?
— Inside Goodwill Central Texas' innovative approach to manager training
— A shared humanity: Recognizing and dismantling radicalized communication
— Leadership lessons on bridging dialogue at work since the Israel-Hamas war began
— Employee recognition ideas that go beyond the gesture
— What The Onion's purchase of InfoWars can teach us about executive comms
— Use these measurement tactics to grow and protect your comms budget
— Employee engagement tips from the C-suite
—What it takes to unclog leadership bottlenecks
— The future of DEI: Communicating with intersectional inclusivity during a second Trump term
— Mastering AI: How to craft persuasive and productive prompts
— These are the comms tactics that won Harris’ first presidential debate
— ‘Supercommunicators’ author Charles Duhigg on fostering deeper virtual connection
— Keeping culture intact during and after an acquisition
— How REI Co-op’s Compass Group fosters dialogue between hourly workers and corporate leadership
— ‘Relevance is the foundation’: Refining town halls with data
—How EY reinvented recruitment and onboarding with AI and the metaverse
— Effective approaches to influence employee behavior
— These are the skills recovering journalists bring to internal comms
— Dealing with ambiguity is a crucial communications skill. Here’s why.
— Art is work: Creative labor at a crossroads
— How comms helps bring diverse talent to the space industry
— Making global comms resonate with a localization playbook
— Empowering DE&I leads to be partners across the organization
— CCOs help comms resonate from the inside out. Here’s how.
Words on Media, PR and Tech
— Diving into the samples on Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ - Rock & Roll Globe
— What Do Smart Collaborative Data Solutions Actually Look Like? ~ AdMonsters
— Privacy Prophecies from Pubforum+ ~ AdMonsters
— Many Music Journalists Started Substack Newsletters This Year ~ Rock & Roll Globe
— The Kinks’ ‘Lola’ @ 50 - Rock & Roll Globe
— Axios' Sara Fischer on declining ad revenue, subscription models & more ~ Muck Rack
— The Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan on the local journalism crisis ~ Muck Rack
— Politifact’s Katie Sanders shares tips for responsible fact-checking ~ Muck Rack
— Interview: Free Press’ 'Media 2070' project ~ Muck Rack
— Tips from Journalists of Color and ONA on being a white ally ~ Muck Rack
— Gillette’s Close Shave: New Ad Debuts a Brand Voice For Modern Times ~ PRNEWS
—3 Takeaways From Sen. Warner’s Paper on Social Media Regulation ~ PRNEWS
— PR Lessons From Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Chat With Recode ~ PRNEWS
— Toni Morrison's Lessons on Storytelling and Communication ~ PRNEWS
— What Boeing's PR Crisis Says About True Oversight and Regulation ~ PRNEWS
— How to Measure Influencers in an Age of Bad Actors ~ PRNEWS
— The Untimely Optics of Google's Project Dragonfly ~ PRNEWS
— Apple's Tim Cook Proposes U.S. Version of GDPR at Data Protection ~ PRNEWS
— Can Blockchain Help Ticketmaster Repair Brand Trust? ~ PRNEWS
— South Dakota’s ‘Meth’ Campaign Opens Debate About the Limits of Awareness ~ PRNEWS
— Apple’s Housing Crisis Initiative is Social Good With Substance ~ PRNEWS
— April Fools Pranks by Brands Highlight Lessons in Good Humor…and Bad Taste ~ PRNEWS
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Vulture
—An Unconnected Group of Indie Rock Musicians Search for Meaning in a Difficult World
— Interview: Judd Apatow and Pete Holmes
— Interview: Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan
— Why Titus Andronicus Made Its Very Own Sitcom Pilot
No Depression
— Remembering David Berman, Who Memorialized Suffering Through Song
— Time Feeds Upon the Living: The Karen Dalton no man knew from the Fall 2017 issue
— Anything Can Be a Temple: kirtan teaches many to silence their mind from the Summer, 2017 issue
— Interview: Steve Gunn Finds Empathy in Stories of the American Unseen
Select Music Interviews
— Deerhunter: Postcard From the Slipstream in the March 2019 Relix Magazine
— An interview with Lucas Nelson in the May 2019 Flaunt Magazine
— Celebrating Leonard Cohen on the First Anniversary of his Death in the Dec. 2017 Newsweek
— An interview with Awkwafina in the June 2018 Flaunt Magazine
— Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins on the Difference Between Knowing and Believing on InsideHook
— Ty Segall: Freedom Returned in the March 2018 Relix Magazine
— At Home in SoHo With Psych-Folk Legend Peter Stampfel on InsideHook
— RZA Talks Azealia Banks, Donald Glover's 'Atlanta,' and Kung Fu on Complex’s Pigeons and Planes
The National Sawdust Log
— Wolf Parade: Vanishing Creative Communities and the Privilege of Making Art
— In Review: Mass MoCA’s Solid Sound Festival
— Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Getting In Touch with The Kid Inside
— Jaap van Zweden and the Soluna Festival: Building Bridges, Expanding Audiences
— Poliça and s t a r g a z e: True Collaboration is a Lot Like Being in Love
“Behind the Lens” on Vice’s Noisey
— Interview: Johan Renck on directing David Bowie's ‘Blackstar’ short film
— Interview: Amir Bar-Lev on directing his Grateful Dead documentary, “Long Strange Trip”
— Interview: Andrew Dominik on directing Nick Cave’s “One More Time With Feeling” documentary
Observer: Words on Art and Tech
— Hippie Modernism: A Psychedelic Art Show Feeds Your Head
— Solange’s Guggenheim Show Fills a White Institution With Blackness
— Fyre Festival Reminds Us That Wealth is No Substitute for Experience
— Big Dreams on View at Brooklyn’s Small Penis Pageant
— Leonard Cohen Leaves Us, Tearing Through the Veil of Flesh
— Can DIY Venues Solve the National Endowment for the Arts Crisis?
— It’s Time We Erased the Myth of the Opioid Chic Musician
— They’re Out to Get You! BAM to Premiere Musical History of US Conspiracy Theories
— Interview: Kamasi Washington
— Bill Murray Joins Poets House’s Annual Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge
— How The Grateful Dead Revolutionized Rock and Created Modern Jam Bands
— Interview: Meet Two Composers Using Tech to Reclaim Humanity in Electronic Music
— What American Singers Can Learn From Elza Soares’ Hard-Won Brilliance
— Interview: How the Most Important Promoter in NY Ensures the Music Never Stops
— How Radiohead’s ‘O.K. Computer’ Predicted Our Age of Acceleration
— After the Oakland Fire, We Can’t Wait for NYC to Save Our Art Spaces
— Interview: D.C. Punks Priests on Outrage, Organizing, and Fighting Trump
— In a Digital Age, Frank Ocean’s ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Zine Is Something to Behold
— Interview: Psychedelic Forefather Arthur Brown on Ritual, Technology and the ’60s
— ‘Content’ Will Only Ruin Music If We Let It
— Neil Young Returns to Woodstock and Talks to Plants
— Interview: The Jesus and Mary Chain
— High Flying and High Minded: Circus Academics Convene at NYU
— DIY Venue Owner Todd Patrick: Only the Bourgeois Think NY Is Dead
— ‘DAMN.’—Kendrick Lamar Just Dropped His Commercial Masterpiece
— Interview: Alan Vega, Henry Rollins and Ben Vaughn on ‘Cubist Blues’
— Pop Montréal Showcases a City That Still Cares About Its Artists
— NY Roots Picnic Brought Protest and Hip-Hop to Bryant Park
— Niblo’s Garden Party: A Night at the Cirkus
— Interview: Texas Country Legend Terry Allen
— The Post-Music Festival Age: What Came First, the Resources or the Jam?
— The Great Refusal: The Evolution of Politics, Music and Pandering
— ‘The X-Files’ Marks a Return to the Paranoid Style in American Television
— Interview: As serpentwithfeet, Josiah Wise Finds the Glamour in Being Difficult
— Pride And Joy at the Stonewall Inn, Where Gay Rights Struggle Was Born
— Interview: Kamasi Washington
— Bill Murray Joins Poets House’s Annual Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge
— Interview: Car Seat Headrest
— ‘Rimbaud in New York’ Conjures ’70s Bohemia Downtown