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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 Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

Unless a television channel needs TV footage or some personal presence is essential, traditional media do not dispatch reporters to check out the situation on the ground anymore. Whether you are the end reader or reporting major news for tomorrow’s newspaper doesn’t matter. There’s an earthquake?

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The Best Journalism Movies

Landis PR

All the President’s Men (1976) 1977 Academy Award Winner I was in grade school on summer break in 1973, which is when the Watergate hearings were televised. I was really excited when the movie “All the President’s Men” hit my local theater in 1976. Murrow, during the peak of his career during the early days of televised news.

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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. There is no physical medium as is the case with printing newspapers to distribute to vendors who then sell them. Mass communication aims to meet these needs.

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Why Content Marketing and Public Relations Need Each Other

Sword and the Script

In broadcast television, you had three choices – ABC, CBS or NBC. Today, are many more options both on the television – and on the web. Where the major daily newspaper – even the online version – was the single most influential local publication in any American city, today it’s just one among many.