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Kim Hughes and Molly Fogarty join Brunswick as partners. Hughes was as vice president of marketing/adtech and corporate communications at AppLovin. Fogarty was head of corporate affairs & sustainability for Nestlé North America. Paul Holmes 01 Sep 2026 // 11:41AM GMT SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, DC - Brunswick has added two new partners with Kim Hughes joining the San Francisco office after working with AppLovin and Molly Fogarty (pictured) joining in Washington, DC, from Nestlé North America. Hughes brings more than 20 years of experience advising and leading communications for high-growth technology companies, most recently, as vice president of marketing/adtech and corporate communications at AppLovin, where she led a global team spanning corporate communications and adtech marketing. Prior to AppLovin, Kim spent more than 15 years at The Blueshirt Group, where she was managing director of the strategic media Team and advised growth companies and venture capital firms on financial communications, media relations, and high-stakes moments, including IPOs, M&A and SPACs. Fogarty was head of corporate affairs & sustainability for Nestlé North America, reporting directly to the CEO. In that role, she led strategic communications, brand and reputation management and sustainability, while advising senior leadership on issues across government affairs, advocacy, communications, and ESG. Before joining Nestlé, she held roles in government and politics, including with the US Department of Agriculture, the Senate Agriculture Committee, First Lady Laura Bush, and Senator Chuck Hagel. Article tags News direct to your inbox The agency playbook. The PR industry's most comprehensive listing of firms from every region and specialty.

Ticker: technical issues temporarily forced CNN off the air. The interruption lasted more than 30 minutes on Monday. 3 hours ago Top of the Ticker: Regular CNN viewers were greeted with pixelated images during the noon ET hour on Monday as the network suffered a technical issue that affected audio and video. The technical issues occurred during a panel discussion on Inside Politics with Dana Bash, forcing the network to go temporarily off air. The interruption lasted more than 30 minutes, which CNN acknowledged in a social media post. Once the feed was restored, Bash spoke of the hiccup at 12:51 p.m. ET, saying, "Welcome back and we are back. There was a technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery's channels that resulted in losing our signal. We're very sorry for the interruption." According to CNN's Brian Stelter, during the disruption "viewers may have experienced different impacts" depending on which distribution platforms they used. The issue also affected CNN's sister networks, including HBO. Awards: Former 60 Minutes correspondents Scott Pelley and Cecilia Vega were announced as finalists for the 2026 Gerald Loeb Awards, which recognize reporting and storytelling that advances public understanding of business, finance, and the economy. Pelley is a finalist for the Video News Award for his 60 Minutes piece on The Price of Life, which aired in December 2025, while Vega was a finalist for her piece on The Family Farm, which aired in November 2025. Also announced as a finalist is NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas, who was named a finalist for the broadcast's The Coast of Denial series, one of Llamas' first franchises since taking over as Nightly News' anchor. Gerald Loeb winners will be announced live at the Loeb Awards Banquet and Celebration on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at Capitale in New York City. Broadcast special: Continued interest in the Lindsay Clancy trial has resulted in The CW tapping into its corporate sibling, NewsNation, for a new one-hour special on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 9 p.m. ET. NewsNation Presents: The Lindsay Clancy Trial will be hosted by NewsNation's senior national correspondent Brian Entin, with the documentary taking viewers inside the recent trial of Clancy and examining the evidence, testimony, and questions surrounding her mental state at the time of the killings of her three young children. On-air tribute: Noticias Telemundo anchor Julio Vaqueiro will host a primetime special tribute to the late Mexican musical icon Juan Gabriel on Friday at 10 p.m. ET. Airing live on Telemundo and streaming on Noticias Telemundo Ahora, Juan Gabriel, Amor Eterno will feature in-depth interviews with family and friends as they reflect on Gabriel's life and his prolific 45-year musical career, encompassing more than 1,500 songs released across more than 40 albums. He also toured for decades before his death ten years ago. Revolving Door: Fox News announced that Emily Compagno is moving from Outnumbered to its No. 1 show, The Five, where she will be a co-host. Starting Tuesday, Sept. 8, Compagno will be seated alongside Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino, and Jesse Watters, as well as the rotating liberal seat of Harold Ford Jr. and Jessica Tarlov. The network said it will use a rotating pool of Fox News personalities on Compagno's former noon ET show until it names a permanent co-host. CNN announced that Krishna Andavolu has been named explainers correspondent. Andavolu, who joined CNN from VICE in 2025, will continue to host the streaming series, CNN Explainers. Meanwhile, the network also announced that John Simons was named senior director, business and media coverage. Simons was previously a partner at the Brunswick Group and, prior to that, executive editor responsible for national, business, and technology news at TIME. In this new role, Simmons will report to Marie Beaudette, vice president, business and media for CNN. Adele Hixon-Day is joining C-SPAN as its inaugural chief development officer. In this senior leadership role, Hixon-Day will focus on C-SPAN's philanthropic strategy, building relationships with foundations, major donors, and individual supporters. An executive with more than 15 years of fundraising experience, Hixon-Day has previously worked at the Smithsonian Institution as chief advancement officer and as vice president of development at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mark Mwachiro is a TVNewser contributor who has been writing for the blog since March 2022. Based out of New York, Mark has also contributed to ADWEEK. Recommended videos

The WEF named three Work Trends. Here's what they missed. I read the World Economic Forum's latest 3 Work Trends newsletter this week, and I found myself doing what I always do with these kinds of reports: nodding at the diagnosis while questioning the prescription. The three trends they covered are real. "Stress intelligence" in leadership. Women's sports as a talent pipeline for future leaders. And the growing AI literacy divide. Each one touches something I see playing out in my coaching work and across the industries I've spent two decades navigating. But each one also has a blind spot. And I think the blind spot is the same across all three. "Stress intelligence" Is the new leadership buzzword. Women Have Been Doing It for Years. Brunswick Group just released their Leadership Stress Index, developed with Harvard Business School. The data is clear: more than half of C-suite leaders describe themselves as "very stressed," and the pressure is expected to keep climbing. Jon Miller and Drew Keller's recent piece in Harvard Business Review outlines six strategies for harnessing stress rather than being consumed by it. Here's my question. While this is important data... Who taught women in conference rooms to manage pressure before anyone thought to call it "intelligence"? The women I coach have been doing this for 15, 20 years. They held teams together through restructures. They absorbed the emotional weight of entire departments while making decisions under conditions that would crack most people. Nobody handed them a stress index or a six-step framework. They just did it. And instead of calling it intelligence, people called them "emotional" or "difficult" or "too much." My forecast: stress intelligence isn't emerging. It's being recognized. The women who've already been practicing it, without the credit or the language, are going to be the most valuable leaders in the room over the next decade. That is, if organizations are smart enough to actually see them instead of hiring someone younger to teach a workshop about it. Women's Sports is building a leadership pipeline. But what's waiting on the other end? Deloitte projects the women's elite global sports market will hit $3 billion this year. That's a 340% increase since 2022. Lara Abrash, Chair of Deloitte US, put it in a way I can't stop thinking about: "Girls who play become women who lead." Deloitte's own data backs it up. 85% of women in executive positions credit lessons from sports as major drivers of their success. I believe that completely. But I need Excellencebydesign to zoom out a little bit, because the conversation keeps stopping at the pipeline and nobody wants to look at what's on the other side of it. More than three-quarters of professional women athletes earn less than $50,000 a year. Excellencebydesign is investing in building these women into leaders and then handing them a system that doesn't match what they bring. This pattern isn't just in sports. I see it in corporate America constantly. You develop women, give them training, hand them a leadership moment or two. Then the systems on the other end isn't built for them. The conference rooms weren't designed for how they lead. The compensation doesn't reflect their contribution. And then everyone acts confused when they walk away and build something of their own. Here's where I think this is heading: the organizations and leagues that match their investment in developing women with the systems waiting on the other side are going to win the next era of talent. The rest are going to keep losing people and calling it "the market." The AI Literacy divide is real. But the framework doesn't. Reach the People Who Need It Most. The European Commission and OECD just released an AI Literacy Framework that maps out what learners need to thrive in an AI-driven world. Critical thinking, ethical reasoning, understanding how AI actually works. The WEF notes that the new digital divide isn't about access anymore. It's between people who understand AI and people who just consume its outputs. I agree with every word of that and I still think it falls short. That framework is designed for K-12 classrooms. It's built for the next generation. What about the current one? What about the woman who's 47, managing a team, and her company just dropped three AI platforms into her workflow without explaining a single one? What about the entrepreneur who knows she needs to be using AI but can't tell if it's actually helping her business or just making everything faster and less human? These aren't hypothetical people. I talk to them every single week. The leaders and organizations that prioritize emotional intelligence alongside AI literacy are going to define the next era of work. Because knowing how AI works isn't enough if you've lost the ability to think critically on your own, connect with the humans around you, and make decisions rooted in actual judgment instead of whatever the algorithm suggested. Teaching people how to use AI without teaching them how to stay human while doing it? I wouldn't call that literacy. It looks a lot more like conformity with better tools. What all three trends are really pointing to. Step back and look at these together, and they're saying one thing: the future of work belongs to people who can hold complexity. People who've learned to manage their own stress while leading others through theirs. People who built leadership capacity in environments that never handed them anything. People who understand the technology well enough to use it without letting it erase their voice in the process. I've been in rooms with these people my whole career. I've been coaching them. My honest read on where this is all going? The world is finally catching up to what experienced women have been bringing to the table all along. The World Economic Forum is naming the trends. I'm watching the women who've already been living them. A R T I C L E R E F E R E N C E S & S O U R C E S 1. World Economic Forum, "3 Work Trends - Issue 126," LinkedIn Pulse, July 8, 2026. 2. Brunswick Group, "The Brunswick Leadership Stress Index," Brunswick Review, April 13, 2026. 3. Jon Miller & Drew Keller, "6 Ways Leaders Harness Stress," Harvard Business Review, July-August 2026. 4. Deloitte, "Game Changers: Unlocking the Potential of Women's Sports," 2026. 5. World Economic Forum, "What Women's Sports Reveals About Building Future Leaders" (Lara Abrash, Meet the Leader podcast), 2026. 6. World Economic Forum, "Beyond Access: Why AI Literacy Will Define the Future," July 1, 2026. 7. OECD / European Commission, "Empowering Learners for the Age of AI: An AI Literacy Framework," June 2026. Coach Dezi aka The #CreativeTechWhisperer is a Business and Technology Strategist, Leadership Advisor, and Executive Coach based in Riverside, California. She is the Founder of EBD Collective and Creative Tech Concierge, helping experienced women entrepreneurs build with clarity, courage, and purpose.