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The Persuadable Middle Is Where Gunster Goes to Work
A 13-person Washington firm sells a complete campaign loop: find the movable audience, test the language, recruit the validators, then put the message everywhere. Its most famous work also shows why persuasion is easier to sell than to measure.
The Newsman Who Rehearsed the Ambush
Brent Boynton spent decades deciding which answers made the evening news. Then he built a practice that taught nervous people how to survive the question before the camera ever arrived.
The Little Agency That Buys a Very Big Megaphone
A compact Charleston shop has learned to make statewide campaigns feel local, turn media buying into measurement, and treat a collapsing building as a scheduling problem.
Longwell Partners and the Strange Power of Hearing One Voter Clearly
The Washington communications firm found its sharpest political tool behind a two-way mirror: stop guessing what voters believe, listen until they tell you, then let people like them carry the message.
Climate Change Had a Vocabulary Problem. Climate Power Put It on the Electric Bill.
The six-year-old advocacy shop learned that a historic climate law could still be politically invisible. Its answer was to stop leading with the climate - and start with the bill on the kitchen table.
Paschal Roth knows a good argument needs an audience
California’s public health officials had evidence. They needed political attention. Paschal Roth’s work shows how a specialist communications firm helps an overlooked issue find its audience - and what that work actually costs.