Leadership & Strategy

What We're Watching This Week: September 23, 2026

PIO Toolkit Team
September 23, 2026
6 min read
A city's cyber recovery, disputed AI campaign videos, a nationwide alert test, and local communications work worth learning from. What government communicators should watch this week.

A city has reopened its doors, but its emergency calls still take a different route. Two states are testing where the line falls between political parody and deceptive AI video. And a nationwide emergency-alert test has been announced. These aren't three versions of the same story. They do ask the same question: when the usual signals stop working, how does the public know where to turn?

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