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In-House PR vs PR Agency: How Founders Should Decide in 2026

By Disrupt PR | 2025 Bulldog PR Awards Gold Winner, Best Boutique Agency One person can keep PR running. Consistent coverage takes a team. Should you build an in-house PR team or hire a PR agency? For most growth-stage companies...

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Disrupt PR
• October 12, 2026
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PR vs Marketing: Why Your Marketing Team Can’t Do Your PR

By Disrupt PR | 2025 Bulldog PR Awards Gold Winner, Best Boutique Agency The founder of a publicly traded company came in and tried to skip a step. “We can skip media messaging,” he told us. His multimillion dollar marketing...

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Disrupt PR
• October 11, 2026
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How to Write a Press Release (and What to Do With It)

By Disrupt PR | 2025 Bulldog PR Awards Gold Winner, Best Boutique Agency When I was a reporter at NBC and CBS, I got somewhere between 200 and 400 pitches a week. I opened maybe twenty. And a big chunk...

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Disrupt PR
• October 5, 2026
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Owned vs Earned vs Paid Media: What’s the Difference?

By Disrupt PR | 2025 Bulldog PR Awards Gold Winner, Best Boutique Agency A founder asked me last month why her Instagram ads weren’t building the same trust as the one article a reporter wrote about her company. Same audience,...

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Disrupt PR
• September 29, 2026
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PR Agency Contract Red Flags: What to Read Before You Sign

By Disrupt PR | 2025 Bulldog PR Awards Gold Winner, Best Boutique Agency A founder forwarded me a PR contract a few months back, half-joking: “Can you just tell me if I’m about to make a mistake?” Buried on page...

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Disrupt PR
• September 17, 2026
Biotech PR in 2026: The Modern Playbook for Landing Tier-1 Coverage

Biotech PR in 2026: The Modern Playbook for Landing Tier-1 Coverage

This year, one of our recent clients, Absci ($ABSI), has landed coverage in Bloomberg (twice), Fortune, STAT News, Reuters, MarketWatch, Fierce Biotech, Yahoo Finance, KFF Health News, and the University of Arizona College of Science, all around their AI drug...

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Disrupt PR
• September 16, 2026
Marin Richardson, former broadcast journalist and founder of Disrupt PR, evaluating whether a PR agency is delivering real results

Is Your PR Agency Actually Working? 3 Questions to Ask Before You Renew

By Disrupt PR | 2025 Bulldog PR Awards Gold Winner, Best Boutique Agency A founder messaged me last week. She’d been paying her PR agency $14,000 a month for eight months. Total placements: two. One trade blog. One “contributor” byline...

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Disrupt PR
• August 31, 2026

How Much Does a PR Agency Cost? An Honest 2026 Pricing Guide

  By Disrupt PR | 2025 Bulldog PR Awards Gold Winner, Best Boutique Agency The first question almost every founder asks us isn’t about strategy. It isn’t about media lists or coverage targets or whether we’ve ever placed a story...

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Disrupt PR
• July 29, 2026
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How to Get Press Coverage: A Former Journalist’s Insider Guide

By Disrupt PR | Named #1 Boutique PR Agency in the Nation, 2025 Bulldog PR Awards Before I ran a PR agency, I was a journalist. Emmy-nominated broadcast reporter at Fox40 Sacramento. NBC4 LA’s I-Team. CBS Newspath. And in a...

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Disrupt PR
• July 14, 2026

Why Your Business Isn’t Showing Up on ChatGPT : And How PR Fixes It

By Marin Richardson, Founder & CEO of Disrupt PR** Last night I asked ChatGPT a question every founder is quietly asking themselves at 11pm: Why isn't my business showing up in AI search? The answer changed how I think about...

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Disrupt PR
• May 19, 2026

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