The Global Outlook has its first numbers, and there is still time to take part

Irkutsk, a pending lab result and six rumours in a week.

Government communicators fight for precision, corporate communicators for restraint, and Irkutsk tests both.

Your next crisis focus group might not contain any humans.

Synthetic audiences can test messages in days, in private, at scale. What they can safely do for risk, crisis and emergency communicators is narrower than the demos suggest.

The UN just mapped the global risk network. Disinformation sits at the centre of it.

The 2026 Global Risk Report separates what institutions can see from what they can act on and that gap is where practitioners now sit.

The AI threat is already documented. Is your crisis plan?

What 154 pages of AI misuse case studies mean for how you do your job

The September reset every crisis team skips.

A readiness checklist for the six weeks between summer and Q4 risk season.

41 minutes: why an alert system is not an early-warning system.

A Reuters investigation into the Nepal-Tibet flood shows why faster messaging can't fix a broken information supply chain.

86% see the risk. 14% train for it.

Deloitte's new Corporate Affairs report ranks crisis and geopolitical training dead last on the 2026 investment list — while calling geopolitics a 'standing condition.'

AI's Explanation Problem: Why 833 Opposition Groups Matter

833 opposition groups is not a messaging failure. It is what happens when an industry cannot explain itself and will not own the consequences.

Anticipator, enabler, or observer: which one is your crisis team, really?

A five-role maturity model, built for investors and innovators, doubles as an uncomfortably accurate test of crisis readiness.

AI didn't invent a new crisis. It just broke the clock.

ICM tracked a record year of US crisis coverage. International SOS surveyed 250 risk leaders across 53 countries. They're describing the same problem.

Gray zone attacks: the crisis your comms plan was never built for.

A guide to the ambiguous, deniable attacks now hitting critical infrastructure, contractors and private citizens worldwide — and what that means for your comms plan.