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2 Enduring Strategies for These Content-Saturated Times

PRSay

You could optimize a news release, and Google News indexed it just the same as an article from a real newspaper! 2011 — Facebook follower numbers seemed to grow on their own. And found that some of the very features that make it so popular among young people also make it difficult to use for sharing corporate messages.

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The Silicon Valley Watcher to publish on PressPage

Presspage

In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to become a full-time journalist blogger. As its founder, and Chief Editor, Foremski, closely followed PressPage’s development since meeting its founders in 2011. Press release!

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P.T. Barnum: “There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity”

Doctor Spin

Ahead of others in his time, he actually understood the importance of media coverage (he started New York’s first illustrated newspaper in 1853) and believed ‘there is no such thing as bad publicity,’ a popular phrase many times attributed to Barnum himself.” — Ashley Foster, APR 1 The End of a Publicity Era: How Ringling Bros.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

He published a paper called PR 2020 on behalf of the CIPR in 2011 that examined the future of PR. Each corporate PRCA member will be expected to engage with a local school each year. In 2019 purpose continued to emerge as a theme in corporate leadership as a means of reconnecting organisations with society.

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Double-dipping exposes reputation risk in blurred boundaries of PR and journalism

PR Conversations

(Not long after contacting the journalist, his network, the agency and some of its clients, Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper reported that the network had suspended the TV anchor. One could hypothesize questions 1 and 2 were debated at both the TV network and the newspaper.). Transparency helps—but it’s not enough.

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Double-dipping exposes reputation risk in blurred boundaries of PR and journalism

PR Conversations

(Not long after contacting the journalist, his network, the agency and some of its clients, Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper reported that the network had suspended the TV anchor. One could hypothesize questions 1 and 2 were debated at both the TV network and the newspaper.). Transparency helps—but it’s not enough.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. You have to keep in mind, big corporations can have hundreds of law firms on what they call a “panel.” The in-housing trend in PR isn’t entirely surprising. Then the economy changed. VC investment grew to $7.2

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