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    <description>Working notes on brand and reputation intelligence: AI reputation, media monitoring and crisis communications.</description>
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      <title>Fifteen Years of Declaring AVE Dead Did Not Work</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>AVE alternatives for PR measurement: what Barcelona Principles 4.0 changed, why AVE survived fifteen years of criticism, and the four numbers that replace it.</description>
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      <title>When a Model Gets Your Brand Wrong: A Correction Playbook</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A correction playbook for when a model gets your brand wrong: reproduce it, triage by cost, trace the source, fix it there and verify on a schedule.</description>
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      <title>AI Reputation Management: What It Is and Why It Is Now a Comms Job</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>AI reputation management is the work of finding out what AI assistants say about your brand and fixing it, using the sources they read.</description>
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      <title>Telling a Coordinated Campaign From Genuine Backlash</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to tell a coordinated campaign from organic backlash: timing, account and content signals, and why calling real critics bots is the costliest error.</description>
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      <title>Crisis Detection: How to Tell a Spike From a Crisis</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Crisis detection for comms teams: why volume thresholds fail, what a real baseline looks like, and the four signals that separate a spike from a crisis.</description>
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      <title>Crisis Velocity: Measuring Against Your Own Normal</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to set a crisis alert threshold: why fixed numbers fail, what a real baseline needs, and how to escalate severity on evidence not volume.</description>
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      <title>The First Sixty Minutes of a Brand Crisis</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What to do in the first hour of a PR crisis: a minute-by-minute playbook, the three questions to answer first, and what not to publish.</description>
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      <title>Generative Engine Optimization: How Brands Get Cited in AI Answers</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Generative engine optimization is the practice of making your content the source an AI assistant reaches for when it writes an answer, not a ranking tactic.</description>
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      <title>Google AI Overviews: What Changes for PR and Comms Teams</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What Google AI Overviews change for PR and comms teams: earned coverage becomes a direct input into the answer, and clicks stop measuring influence.</description>
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      <title>How to Write a Holding Statement, With Structure and Examples</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to write a holding statement: the five-part structure, four worked examples by scenario, and the phrases to avoid in a first response.</description>
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      <title>How to Measure PR: The Numbers That Survive a CFO's Questions</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to measure PR performance: the numbers that hold up under scrutiny, and the ones to retire before someone in finance asks about them.</description>
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      <title>Media Monitoring: A Working Guide for Communications Teams</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A working guide to media monitoring: what it covers, what separates a feed from intelligence, what platform access changes mean, and what no tool can see.</description>
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      <title>Media Monitoring Tools: How to Choose One Without a Six-Month Trial</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to choose media monitoring tools: an evaluation framework covering coverage, language, sentiment and the questions vendors hope you skip.</description>
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      <title>Media Monitoring vs Social Listening: The Difference That Matters</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Media monitoring vs social listening: what actually differs, why the split is mostly a vendor artefact, and what running both tools costs a team.</description>
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      <title>How to Measure Share of Voice Across Press, Social and AI</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to measure share of voice across press, social and AI: the formula, the common traps, and why cross-vendor numbers can't be compared.</description>
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      <title>How to Check What ChatGPT Says About Your Brand</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to audit what ChatGPT says about your brand: use a temporary chat, ask what a buyer would ask, run each prompt several times and record every source.</description>
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      <title>Why AI Assistants Recommend Your Competitor, and How to Change It</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why AI assistants recommend a competitor instead of you, and how to change it: the sources that build a shortlist, and how to get into one.</description>
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