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Nonprofit Local News Gains Steam

PRSay

Already decimated by staff reductions, many print and broadcast newsrooms have been acquired by large corporations that are often more interested in online clicks and monetizing news than in factual reporting, Todd said. Most affected were local news outlets that are independently operated or owned by small media chains.

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These are the local publishers getting engagement in the U.S. and U.K.

NewsWhip

We looked back at the local publishers that are seeing significant engagement in two different countries, looking at both the United States and the United Kingdom. . So we decided to analyze the local stories and publishers that are getting the most public interest. Local-national publishers. The top local U.S.

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Newsprint in pain as COVID-19 bites, so what’s next?

Stephen Waddington

A perfect storm of distribution and falling advertising revenue is a blow to the newsprint business after two decades of battling the shift from print to digital. Local and national newsprint impacted The crisis is indiscriminate in its impact on local and national media. The split in advertising is roughly equal.

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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. The PR 2020 project was based on interviews with PR practitioners throughout the UK and the outlook for the forthcoming decade. They are all issues that will occupy us all in 2020. Here are the headlines. Issues in practice 1.

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13 stories about the future of news

Stephen Waddington

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 is a challenging read. Print is down but digital is booming. Local news is most valued but is on life support. COVID-19 boosts news consumption across all mainstream media (except print) The COVIDA-19 crisis has substantially increased news consumption for mainstream media.

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5 Tips For Launching A PR Program In APAC

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

When Spotify went hyperlocal last year with its debut campaign in India, it was able to reflect local culture, moods and social moments. A successful PR campaign must account for local customer insights and nuances and communicators may want to look at hyper-localization strategies. . This resulted in huge success.

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Challenges and changes for PR in 2021

Stephen Waddington

In short, 2020 into 2021 has been tough and, while there is most definitely light at the end of the tunnel, patterns have emerged that have changed and will continue to change forever the industry and how we practice communications.