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Social Media Overtakes Print Newspapers as News Source

PRSay

For the first time, social media has surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans, Pew Research Center finds. adults said they often get news from social media, compared to 16 percent from print newspapers. Television remains the most popular way Americans receive news, though its use has fallen since 2016.

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The #PRStudChat Community Discusses PR, Twitter & Politics on Tuesday, October 11th

Deirdre Breakenridge

With the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign being coined “The Twitter Election” there is no question that Twitter is topical. On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at 8:30 p.m. There is a lot to learn (and will be learned) from this mainstream news channel.

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How to Reach Special Publics – The Woman Publics

PR Conversations

.” As two females connecting across the planet to correspond about a pioneering woman who linked both our professions, I decided to look at the chapter that Mabel authored in the 1948 text: Your Public Relations that we are serialising here , to acknowledge International Women’s Day 2016.

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22 PR Rock Stars of the Future

Communications Conversations

In addition, she’s helped lead the AHPR campaign to highlight UO alumni and US Olympians Ashton and Brianne Eaton on the road to Rio for 2016 called What’s Your Gold? Her current project is the promotion of a golf tournament for the USM student radio station, for which she has created sponsorship and player brochures and an advertisement.

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The transition from media to PR: Four former journalists talk about the surprises, struggles and wins

Communications Conversations

Newspapers are cutting staff. Using my storytelling skills that I’ve built up over my 18 year career in radio & TV but in a new way. Yet I don’t think the PR-Journalist relationship is over–especially at the local level. I was most recently an anchor/reporter at WHO-TV in Des Moines, from 2005-2016.

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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

The local media and broadcast media has done a good job in holding political campaigns to account against the wave of disinformation online. Facebook’s digital doorstep Facebook has become one of the most influential political source thanks to targeting and local groups. Being first is more important in newsrooms than being factual.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Today, we use many information sources to see what is going on around us, locally, nationally, and globally, with more emerging all the time. Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. Mass communication aims to meet these needs.

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