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Rockwell Collins made the cockpit make sense.
A radio maker from Iowa learned to put complicated machines in conversation. Its enduring lesson is about what to connect - and where to stop.
The $70 Shortcut From PR Class to the Client Room
At USC, the useful distance between a lecture hall and a live brief costs $70 a year. Inside that gap, students meet executives, tour agencies and run campaigns before anyone hands them a diploma.
DBH’s $3,000 lesson in the real world
At San Jose State, Dwight Bentel & Hall Communications puts students in charge of real client campaigns. A Chevrolet brief, a theatre production and a campus sustainability program reveal what that education looks like when it leaves the classroom.
Lore would like a word with your buzzwords
A PR consultancy made a font that crosses out jargon. The joke explains its serious business: helping people with something to say become worth listening to.
Gogola wants you to meet the Ukraine you haven’t seen
The Los Angeles communications agency helps creative brands find an international audience. Its most revealing project put Ukrainian design in a New York room and let the objects do some of the talking.
Hustle&Co. knows why a fan would care
From Bandcamp to Oasis fan shops, this PR collective works where music, technology and identity meet. Its useful trick is finding the human stakes inside a corporate announcement.
Ascent Strategic and the work behind the campaign
Four Republican consultants built a firm that brings campaign strategy, design, mail, and voter contact together. One of its most revealing hires arrived with no political experience at all.
PRSSA SDSU gets students into the room
An agency visit, a two-hour pitch, a conversation after the panel. San Diego State’s PRSSA chapter makes a communications career something students can try before graduation.
Convey makes the public part of public works
A civil engineer built a communications agency around a stubborn problem: a technically sound project still has to make sense to the people who live with it.
What beef tallow reveals about Edge Communications
The Los Angeles PR agency has represented cloud hosts, a university and a cooking-fat supplier. Its most interesting lesson is how to give an unlikely subject a reason to be read.
Amies Communications: A good story still needs a willing audience
From commercial-property websites to a $3 million airport communications contract, Amies Communications worked where marketing meets public persuasion. Its history offers a useful distinction between getting a message out and getting people on board.
The PR Habitat is building the network you weren't born into
Damaryan Benton turned a LinkedIn post into a community for young communicators. Its real subject is everything a PR degree leaves between the lines: introductions, unwritten rules, and who pays to keep the door open.
Roxhill Media sells the homework behind a better pitch
A journalist’s email address is only the beginning. Roxhill combines media research, outreach and coverage analysis to help PR teams decide who deserves a pitch - and what happened after they sent it.
Rocket.Chat
Bring together messaging, voice, video, critical apps, and AI to keep teams connected and missions protected.
Ad Hoc Labs (makers of Burner + Dialed)
Ad Hoc Labs is a Los Angeles-based independent mobile software company that builds communication tools giving people control over how they can be reached. Its flagship app, Burner, launched in 2012 as the original disposable second phone number - a privacy layer that lets users spin up, use, and delete alias numbers on demand. Its second product, Dialed, packages a business phone line, contact management, and marketing tools into one app for solopreneurs and micro-businesses. Founded by Greg Cohn and Will Carter, the company remains independent and remote, focused on utility and reliability over feature volume.
Clipbook
Clipbook is an AI-native platform for communications and corporate affairs teams. It monitors over one million media and policy sources - press, broadcast, podcasts, social, regulatory filings - and uses agentic AI to surface what actually matters, in real time. Founded in 2023 by ex-BCG consultant Adam Joseph, Clipbook bootstrapped to seven figures in ARR before raising a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban, Commonweal Ventures, and Carpenter Capital in late 2025.