Capitol Communicator
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Dedicated to bringing together the vast spectrum of communications professionals who influence and educate the Mid-Atlantic region and the world by providing news; trends; education; and opportunities for networking, career enhancement, business exchange and showcasing great work, Capitol Communicator serves as a resource to the region’s communications community. Capitol Communicator focuses on connecting communicators and building a community that encompasses professions that include public relations, advertising, marketing, media, creative, video, photography, printing, digital and the multitude of other professions that support this region’s multi-billion-dollar communications industry. Source
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| Scope | Local, Trade/B2B |
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
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Search ArticlesBIA Forecast: Political Spending Lifts 2026 Local Ad Market to $186.1 Billion; First Look at 2027 Points to Continued Underlying Growth
BIA Advisory Services updated its 2026 U.S. Local Advertising Forecast, projecting total local ad revenue to reach $186.1 billion, up $1.6 billion (+0.9%) from the firm’s April 2026 estimate of $184.5 billion and approximately 9% year over year from 2025. The increase is driven primarily by higher political ad spending heading into the midterms, along with continued strength in mobile.
LG accused of invasion of privacy over TV data collection, states The Register
LG is once again fending off allegations that its expensive consumer hardware gathers extensive information about users and their surroundings for the benefit of its advertising business, reports The Register. The latest concerns, states The Register, “center on smart TVs that researchers claim continued capturing audio after voice recognition was activated, including while the display was in standby.
Capitol Communicators: Profile of Lauren Lawson-Zilai, Founder and Principal, Zeal Communications
Capitol Communicators is a profile series spotlighting the people shaping advertising, digital, marketing and public relations in the Mid-Atlantic. This profile features Lauren Lawson-Zilai. “A woman of causes,” is how Lauren Lawson-Zilai describes herself. Indeed, she’s focused her PR work on mission-driven nonprofit organizations; and is always volunteering for causes dear to her heart. In fact, the list of her volunteer activities – past and present – goes on for pages.
25 Years Later, Remembering September 11
By It is hard to believe it has been 25 years since September 11. I was working at Burrelles at the time and was in New Jersey for an early meeting that morning. Like everyone else, I watched what was happening with disbelief, trying to understand how this could possibly be real. Very quickly, it also became clear that I wasn’t getting back to New York anytime soon. I still remember my boss turning to his assistant and saying, “Find Fay a room.
How 9/11 became a “teachable moment”
9/11 was my first day back in the office after cancer surgery. I was finally feeling good enough to get dressed and go to my downtown DC office – about two blocks from the White House. Back to normal, I thought. I had a huge TV in my office, and everyone came in to watch what was happening in New York City; and then, here. People were leaving downtown. The streets were gridlocked. There was no getting out right now.
An “old-school newspaper war” is brewing in DC, reports CNN
Most days there are only two kinds of news about newspapers: Bad and worse, reports CNN. But in Washington, DC, CNN states, “there’s something unexpected happening: A new-age version of an old-school newspaper war, with feisty competition between two formidable newsrooms, the entrenched Washington Post and the upstart Washington Sun. “This being 2026, these “newspapers” are entirely digital, in the Sun’s case, and mostly digital, in the Post’s case.
WHITE64 rebrands to ‘Worst Kept Secret’
WHITE64 announced its rebrand as Worst Kept Secret. According to a release, the new name “comes straight from the problem it solves for clients and the way the agency actually grew, quietly, and by word of mouth. Worst Kept Secret puts that reputation out in the open, staying independent-minded and built to think and move like an agency that answers to its clients first.” “Every CMO knows the sentence they dread hearing. ‘You’re the best-kept secret in your category.’ It sounds like a compliment.
The Washington Sun to “reimagine the traditional newspaper for the digital age”
The Washington Sun rises “and with it a belief that we can reimagine the traditional newspaper for the digital age,” writes Dana Milbank about The Sun. According to Milbank, The Sun has embarked on “a grand experiment to test whether there is a market in the nation’s capital for a publication that covers the local news, culture and sports that are the glue of any community. And we aim to prove that a general-interest publication combining national and local news can be viable in the 21st century.
Editorial cartoonists’ group critical of Baltimore Sun for AI-generated image
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is calling on The Baltimore Sun to abandon artificial intelligence in its editorial art, days after the newspaper ran what the group described as an AI-generated “illustration” that it says readers were meant to accept as an editorial cartoon. In an open letter to the Sun’s publisher and editors, AAEC President Marc Murphy said the Sept. 4 illustration, which accompanied a crime story tied to Fells Point, marked a new low for the paper.
Meta fails to delete sex abuse ads featuring real children, states MediaDailyNews
Following Meta’s $17.1 billion settlement for exploiting children on its social-media platforms states MediaDailyNews, the tech giant is being accused of running ads including child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — some of which featured real children — according to a report from Wired.