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. Kathy Orton, Reporter and Real Estate Web Editor, Washington Post. We don’t have a real estate reporter per se.

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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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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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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

There’s not much good news for UK media in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. Media coverage of Brexit is impacting the mood of the nation according to Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. You can download a copy of the report by following this link. The UK is suffering from news fatigue.

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Print Media Newspapers Local 115

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. The result is that each year there are fewer reporters covering more ground, meaning they are harder to reach than ever before.

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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. It was the first time I was doing on-my-toes, breaking news reporting in a while and it was a wild time as no one really knew what to expect. What story or stories are you most proud of?

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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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Journalism Report Enterprise Interviews 50

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Is this a sign of the future of PR (and journalism)? When I was director of corporate communications at a local healthcare organization, I would regularly receive a number of resumes from reporters whenever PR jobs opened up. ” Run an ad in a newspaper and it needs to be labeled as an ad. I definitely think that it is.

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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. Even the Financial Times, with its subscriptions of up to £700 a year, was pretty quiet on profitability figures this year, although it reported ‘rising revenue’ and firm profits the previous year. Only time will tell.

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Journalism Print Newspapers Advertising 48

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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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

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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. Focus on 20% of reporters.

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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. Pitch to a reporter, but then go to a freelancer later if the journalist isn’t interested?

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Media Newspapers Journalism Video 54

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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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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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Earned media still the most credible source of info Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Advertising is a distant third. Their study was published in the Journal of Promotion Management and summarized in a piece for the Institute for Public Relations ( IPR ).

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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 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.). Transparency helps—but it’s not enough.

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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.). Transparency helps—but it’s not enough.

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Journalism Reputation Ethics Corporate 40

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. The media industry was profitable, reporters had time and resources to research stories and there were even dedicated fact-checkers at some publications. What drew you to the PR industry?

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

We’ve watched traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television decrease in importance thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other social platforms. Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism. Whether the effect is positive or negative, AI will likely impact PR and communications.

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Newsfile

MARCH 14, 2024

Subscriptions were cited as the most important digital revenue stream for publishers worldwide in every year from 2021 to 2023, ahead of advertising. This allows them to stay informed about market-moving news, company updates and earnings reports alongside relevant financial information and market trends.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Demonstrating value and the talent paradox Talent remains a critical challenge for the PR industry according to The ICCO World PR Report 2020. The report provides an international perspective on the challenges facing the PR business. 43% of respondents reported that there is a lack of talent in PR. It’s a theme that Topi?

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

In 2015, traditional media companies are expected to continue shifting towards rebranding, new media entrepreneurism, native advertising and the adoption of digital newsrooms. Once you’ve established that, then pitch a reporter, he continues. Q: One mistake PR professionals make is bombarding reporters with press releases.

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Journalistics

MAY 26, 2015

One of my favorite annual reports is the Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media 2015. Now in its 14th year, the report is one of the best indicators of the health of the news media industry. The legacy news industry – traditional newspapers and magazines – have made little progress securing digital ad revenue.

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David PR Group

OCTOBER 17, 2014

More than 15 years ago, I began telling people that the Internet might kill newspapers but that it won’t end journalism. Remember, journalism was created to educate, inform, and persuade people, and our nation’s first journalists were not writing to please advertisers.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 20, 2013

It has been, and always will be, advertising. BuzzFeed eschewed the paywall model, opting instead for “native advertising,” essentially an article or editorial and advertiser has paid to place on the site. Newspapers have been losing revenue for years, mainly to Internet traffic.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree. Working at newspapers for a few years taught me to always consider the audience when you’re writing. For a daily beat reporter, our stories had to have a local tie. Where should they start?

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Apart from the usual layoffs, cost reduction, and restructuring, we have seen newspapers and magazines getting thinner, TV stations cutting back on programming, and several publications and channels are on the block. It is rightly said that PR and journalism are interdependent. In July, Outlook Publishing (India) Pvt.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 13, 2015

Twitter made a number of advertising product (or inventory) announcements recently including a plan to sell ads on other websites. Facebook has essentially invoked the (dubious) traditional advertising model. Facebook on the other hand is inviting deserved scrutiny among marketers as to the value of their advertising products.

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PRSay

JUNE 6, 2017

Here, the TV personality — known for his “In the Papers” feature humorously summarizing the New York daily newspapers — talks about engaging an audience, storytelling, the newsgathering process and work-life balance. 1 is that all journalism is an oversimplification of something — you can’t tell 100 percent of the story.

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Journalistics

MAY 26, 2015

One of my favorite annual reports is the Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media 2015. Now in its 14th year, the report is one of the best indicators of the health of the news media industry. The major theme from this year’s report is the rising challenge news organizations face managing mobile and social media audiences.

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Bad Pitch Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Nine months ago, robo-journalism was in full effect when the LA Times used its Quakebot algorithm to report on an earthquake -- three minutes after it happened. It''s ironic to note the math of an algorithm is being used to generate the words of a newspaper article -- 108 of them in the above example. Game Over or Game On?

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Newspapers Customer Service Google Journalism 77

Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

But, a number of stats and reports lately (not to mention consumer behavior trends in general) have got me thinking: We may be well past the tipping point. Think Netflix + The Wall Street Journal (and a bunch of others here ). Meanwhile, print circulation numbers among the nation’s largest newspapers are plummeting.

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PR Conversations

MARCH 8, 2016

Beverley kindly shared with me the photograph of Mabel, which I’ve supplemented with a newspaper report of her work. I’ve also found reference to an article written by Mabel Flannel and Sally Woodward on “This Business of Women” published in the October 1955 issue of the Public Relations Journal.

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

And we are now something in between publishers, editors, and reporters. And reporters, because it's the reporter who finds the news. You can't do that sort of thing in a newspaper or on TV. Host: Then in those years when you were in the plant you made your first newspaper? Publishers because we own media.

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