✨ SIG-Marcomms Meeting Recap ✨
Our communications community gathered in Helsinki right before #TNC26 for a day of discussions and shared learning. One question was on everyone's mind: how do we move from communications as a reactive function to communications as a strategic force?
What followed were discussions on crisis communications, strategic influence and a round of Lightning…
Retiring YDS Director of Communications, Tom Krattenmaker, reflects on religion, writing, and the natural world. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-05-26-connection-and-community-retiring-communications-director-masters-the-ar…
Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections,
seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as
“godless communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.
The president, who was a child during the “red scare”, seized on wins by democratic socialists backed by the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, to stoke fears that the Democratic party has embraced extremism that could lead to the violent persecution of Christians.
Trump tries out midterms message that focuses on 'communists' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/26/trump-tries-out-midterms-message-that-focuses-communists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p98#a260626p98
Communication directors of 12 Dutch ministries: government should leave X, to stop exposing citizens to desinformation, racism, discrimination, misogyny, and antisemitism.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/topambtenaren-in-intern…
Trump rips Mayor Zohran Mamdani, DSA -- proclaims he'd be 'the greatest Communist in history' (Ally Goelz/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/us-news/prez-rips-mayor-zohran-mamdani-dsa-proclaims-hed-be-the-greatest-communist-in-history/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p91#a260626p91
OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says "this kind of government access process" should not become the long-term default (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-limits-
To help defenders prioritize patches amid the coming onslaught of bug reports, Anthropic recommends that they rely on a vulnerability framework known as the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS).
Check out my latest CSO piece on how EPSS works.
Many thanks to Michael Roytman and Ed Bellis of Empirical Security, James Robinson of Netskope, Aaron Weismann of Main Line Health, and Ramy Houssaini of Cloudflare for their insight.
Anthropic bets on EPSS for the coming bug surg…
Brendan Carr is building Trump-friendly broadcasting behemoths
Conservative television broadcasters are getting bigger under Donald Trump
— and thanks to his top communications regulator,
they may get enhanced power to mute the president’s critics.
The Federal Communications Commission’s approval of a $6.2 billion merger between the TV station owners Nexstar and Tegna
is one step toward agency Chair Brendan Carr’s goal of boosting local broadcasters’ market heft…
Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1oebi11xge