PRSay

MARCH 11, 2022

Prior to entering the PR profession, Miyamoto was a newspaper reporter and managing editor in the Los Angeles area. After his journalism career, he served as director of public relations for the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, and later as executive vice president of SMS Communications, Honolulu. He was born in Joliet, Ill.,

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PRSay

AUGUST 11, 2021

Having the ability to calculate the equivalent advertising value of stories arranged through media relations allows PR pros to prove their worth to organizational decision-makers. When it comes to realizing the value of media relations, Op-Ed columns in newspapers are the gold standard.

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Stephen Waddington

APRIL 14, 2020

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. Advertisers have pulled campaigns, either because businesses have themselves been impacted by the crisis, or they simply didn’t want their brand appearing alongside COVID-19 news.

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PRSay

MAY 3, 2019

On April 27, Bloomberg published an inaccurate, one-sided piece titled “Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffet Sees Newspapers Dying.”. As the article noted, billionaire investor Warren Buffet sees the traditional newspaper slipping away. But this, at the end of the day, is just promotion and advertising. It’s time to pivot.

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PR for Anyone

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I interviewed journalists from The Washington Post, The Washington Business Journal , and Inside Nova (a Northern Virginia local publication) about what types of local real estate pitches they like to receive. They found all these newspapers, cards, and historic documents in the wall of the home. Here are your tips from the pros!

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This week, the News Media Association (NMA) wrote to ministers to say that it is becoming “increasingly difficult” to fund quality journalism, and the diversion of advertising revenues is to blame. Marketing spend going to the likes of Facebook and Google doesn’t cease to increase whilst newspaper advertising revenue plummets.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

AirPR sat down with Mika and discussed unique communications strategies, moving from journalism to PR: AirPR: Tell us about TMI and how you help brands and organizations gain visibility and manage reputation. AirPR: You started your career in journalism. Today, Mika runs TMI (The Mas Ink), a boutique PR firm.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 13, 2019

News media in pain Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital. Popular newspaper brands have suffered double digit falls in print circulation with the Daily Star (-18%), Daily Mirror (-13%), and Daily Express (-12%) hardest hit. Facebook and Google account for almost 60% of the online advertising market.

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Wadds Inc.

JUNE 19, 2022

The Charitable Journalism Project studied seven regional communities in England and Wales through a mix of interviews and focus groups. Advertising has shifted to internet mediated platforms such as Google and Facebook, and print sales have declined. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts. Rumours are commonplace.

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Stern + Associates

JANUARY 29, 2024

Ad spending – the historic lifeblood of mainstream media – has plummeted as people spend more time on social media platforms where advertisers can reach them directly. Every time one would think media outlets can’t cut more staff they find a new bottom: 2023 saw massive layoffs which have continued into 2024.

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Journalistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What led you to PR or journalism? Did you know you wanted to work in PR or journalism before college, or did you discover the field later in life? I wrote for my high school newspaper and loved it. I even spent my free time at home working on an underground newspaper (much harder in the days of typewriters) – which I also loved.

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PR in High Definition

MAY 31, 2016

By and large, most publications are still struggling to find ways to maintain quality journalism and keep solvent. We’ve also seen a few publications get into trouble for not making it explicit that certain links are to advertisers and represent commercial links, rather than purely advisory ones, so it’s not an easy path to tread.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

As the face of our brand, I am responsible for traveling to industry events and networking with our readers, advertisers and others. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? It’s an easy job because this industry is truly full of the best people and I enjoy my time with them.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The PR expert Maxim Behar shared his opinion for 24 Chasa newspaper about the rapidly changing communications and the application of modern media tools in business. In fact, I've been doing this for at least 40 years - first in journalism and then in business. 24.11.2020. And there is not much difference.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 8, 2023

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I then worked as an investigative reporter at the Forward, a Jewish newspaper, and went back to school for business journalism and data journalism. If you are trying to sneakily ask me to just advertise for your company, you will not succeed.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 25, 2020

Consumption of printed newspapers has fallen as lockdowns undermine physical distribution. Newspapers and web sites remain primary media for local news In most countries, local newspapers and their websites remain the top source of news about a town or region, reaching four in ten (44%) weekly.

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Flatiron Communications

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As our impossibly divided nation chooses sides in the battle over whether President Obama has the Constitutional right to nominate a replacement for Justice Scalia (hint: he does), more bad news keeps coming about the future sustainability of newspapers: Gannett’s revenue falls on continued declines in advertising sales and circulation https://t.co/NYn5Ip6w2f

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Jessica Pardoe When did you last read a newspaper? In fact, it’s becoming unusual to pick up a newspaper. Print new media challenge Ad-funded newspapers such as The Evening Standard and The Metro are the exception, not the rule. It’s a challenge for those in the journalism industry and the public relations industry alike.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2017

By Seedepth The media industry and journalism are experiencing significant change. News outlets have been struggling for years to balance advertising, sponsored and editorial content. We interviewed a few PR leaders in Boston to get their takes on journalism and changes we might see in 2017. It may be irreversible.

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Cision

APRIL 24, 2015

Talking Points: Bargaining between the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is heating up ( Romenesko ); and Peter Schweizer has made deals with The New York Times , The Washington Post , and FOX News to pursue story lines found in his forthcoming anti-Clinton book that drops on May 5 ( NYT ).

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Although your executives may get excited when an acquaintance at the gym compliments them on their local business journal profile, they’re going to get a lot more excited when you can show them your PR efforts generated revenue for your organization. In PR, paid media is social media advertising, sponsored content, and email marketing.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Is this a sign of the future of PR (and journalism)? It’s interesting to me that the digital world is still very different than the traditional when it comes to revealing what is “advertising” and what is “news.” ” Run an ad in a newspaper and it needs to be labeled as an ad.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Every part of the industry has had to recalibrate and figure out how to design, build, sell and advertise vehicles in this new environment. I put an advertising spin on this topic and wrote a piece about how dealers and advertising agencies are depicting mask usage in their ads. The biggest thing for me is timeliness.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Gibson was a passionate advocate of public relations as well as for the integration of communications, marketing and advertising. Prior to opening his own firm, Gibson was an advertising representative for Interstate Newspapers, 1954-56; manager of public relations for Johnson Publishing Co., Counsel to senior management.

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Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

She began her career as an aspiring newspaper reporter, securing an internship at the Atlanta Journal Constitution before becoming a daily reporter in Greenville, South Carolina, not far from her hometown. Pivoting from journalism to PR. I knew that journalism was changing,” she said. “I Starting as a solopreneur.

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Prakkypedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

I thought it would be useful to share some sources of news on Australia’s journalism industry (in no particular order): The Australian – Media. Self-described as a “trade journal for the media covering newspapers, magazines, TV, digital, radio, outdoor advertising and entertainment media”. Media Week.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In the 1890s, it was called yellow journalism and was a tactic designed by greedy newspaper publishers to sell more newspapers using scandalous (and not necessarily true) headlines. But many sites that rely on traffic to attract advertisers will create clickbait headlines that are so scandalous, people can’t help but click.

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Maxim Behar

MARCH 11, 2021

I was very keen to start a small daily newspaper in English for foreigners in Bulgaria, who were not all that many at the time. Throughout my professional life of a journalist, I had only worked in daily newspapers, and of course I knew how to do it. Second, they are free, interactive and are a magnet for advertisers.

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Why are newspapers going away? They don't go away because they have bad journalism, but because they don't have ads. Advertisers prefer to advertise online because advertising there is cheaper and more targeted, and most importantly - measurable. These are important things because television lives off advertisers.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These are three traditional job titles in the journalism world which have been around for over a century. They’re the main players that make up the journalist line-up that you’ll find in every national newspaper in the UK today. Columnists. Recently, though, it dawned on me just how much this line-up is changing. News been framed!

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2015

(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.). When trust in journalism is broken, everyone loses.

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2015

(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.). When trust in journalism is broken, everyone loses.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Like many in PR, advertising, and journalism, I was relieved when Google and Facebook announced they would ban “fake news” sites from using use their ad services. Post-factual “news” isn’t merely annoying or even just a threat to journalism – it’s a magnet for the mentally unstable.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Yet this week an interesting piece in the Columbia Journalism Review gave PR professionals some credit for their role in the ongoing war between our 45th president and the press. Sure, PRs and media work together, and we need each other. But the relationship between “flacks and hacks” is an odd and uneasy symbiosis.

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Cision

APRIL 26, 2016

My daily newspaper of choice is…The Wall Street Journal. In this interview, Ashley discusses how to best leverage data and analytics, establish specific objectives for your communication strategy and be creative and take risks with your public relations efforts. What drew you to the field of public relations and communication?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2020

Many of the open-ended comments from the survey point to underlying causes such as the rise of social media and self-publishing, disruption of the advertising-heavy business model in news, subsequent cuts to editorial staff, growth among the ranks of PR, and the deluge of pitches reporters receive. Measured on clicks, quick hits.”

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Cision

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I had a few stories published in high school journals, and starting around junior high I used to write letters to the editor of the local paper. Read the newspaper – the whole newspaper. The thing that gets me up in the morning is…coffee and the newspaper. What drew you to the PR industry? Karma is real.

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