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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

There were newspapers, magazines, wire services, trade publications, TV and radio. About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Three major broadcast networks dominated TV. million in 1974 to 24.3

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PR: Less Elitist Than Ever

Maxim Behar

He can do that on his own, or some local journalist can do that for him for a small amount of money, or his teenage kid can do it for free. Even though it started much earlier, most of this transformation of social media and the social web occurred in 2007–2008.

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Royal Oprah: How chat show queen Oprah has built an empire Meghan Markle would love

Mark My Words

The Oprah Effect, as it is known, has seen her influence everything from literature to politics, with the megastar backing Barack Obama before his 2008 election win. While still a teen, she went to work at a local radio station, before becoming the first black female news anchor at a prominent TV network in Nashville.

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Confusion, Technology and Talent in Marketing; Off Script #26: Frank Pollock on Fundamentals and What He’s Learned from Working in CPG

Sword and the Script

As it turns out, he got his start selling radio and television advertising and only later went to work in the CPG industry after earning an MBA. When I talk to my friends who market local or regional businesses they imply that big brand marketing is easy because of large budgets and tons of resources. Today he’s on his own.

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Engaging (and grilling) the social side of James Grunig

PR Conversations

NOTE: Originally published on October 15, 2008. So, for example, when television was invented journalists tended to use it like radio by simply televising someone reading the news rather than using pictures. Historically, whenever a new medium is invented people use it in the same way that they used the existing media.