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. Social media and search engines are riddled with conspiracy theories and misinformation presented as news. Where does that obligation begin and end?

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Doctor Spin

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How long should a media kit be? Can a media kit be one page? How do you prepare a media kit? Why make a media kit? What is an influencer media kit? PR Resource: Journalism vs PR What is a media kit? It’s “media” as in “media buyers.” media buyers). In Wikipedia.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 27, 2023

For the backstory on how press releases came to be, see the Wikipedia entry for Press Release – History Evolution of the press release As the media landscape changed, so has the press release. The early 2000s saw the addition of social media features. Press releases are multipurpose, multifunctional documents.

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Cision

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Jes Stiles of Search Engine Journal writes that “Facebook Messenger is the most attractive platform on which to run bots for marketers…due to 1 billion monthly active users, payment, and advertiser integration, as well as a healthy developer ecosystem.” Note that a chatbot isn’t the same as an autoresponder.

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Mark My Words

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Take Walter Palmer , the American dentist who shot the wrong Cecil while on safari and was dropped in the lions’ den of social media. It aroused the ire and delight of social media, ripped through the papers and received the inevitable warning from the Advertising Standards Authority, guaranteeing extra story mileage.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. It included email (iContact), press releases (PRWeb), media relations (HARO), and social media (North Social and Engine 140), bundled in what was pitched as an easy-to-use and all-in-one product.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Cheesier [.]

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