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What Journalists Want: How to Write Better Press Releases

PRSay

We’re still employing the “inverted pyramid” of the printing press to compose them, we’re still using them as corporate equivalent of vanity plates for our websites, and we’re still sending them to journalists’ inboxes with a deep, self-serving hope they will magically turn into detailed coverage of our companies.

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This Is How You Reach Readers on Smartphones

PRSay

If so, then join PRSA and Ann Wylie at Reach Readers Online our mobile-web-writing workshop, starting Oct. You’ll master a four-part system for writing compelling web content that overcomes the obstacles of reading on the small screen. They’re cooling their heels with your blog post at the doctor’s office — when their name is called.

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How an underground high school newspaper led to a 10+ year blog

Communications Conversations

I believe both of those experiences shaped me and led me to starting this blog. And there’s a lot I learned from running that underground newspaper that I put into practice now, even to this today, on this blog. And, I fell into a career of writing, social media and blogging. The printing. We did the layout.

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Can Print Still Flourish in The Age of Digital? An Interview with Star Tribune Magazine’s Sue Campbell

MaccaPR

Has digital media – from Huffington Post , Google News and BuzzFeed to Kindle e-books, Twitter and (God help us) more than 8 million blogs – finally vanquished Print? Recent headlines provide brutal evidence: Condé Nast announced last December it was shutting down the print version of Self magazine to go online-only.

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Writing, Labels and Cohorts; Words Really Do Matter [UML]

Sword and the Script

Electronic communications have made writing so easy that we don’t put as much thought or effort into the task anymore. At least not to the degree we did when we had to sit in front of a typewriter or hand write a note with a bottle of white-out nearby. Email has made our writing lazy. 1) Words matter in communication.

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Last Night a Blog Post Changed My Life

ZudePR

And my primary sources of information, advice, enjoyment, and inspiration have been blogs (and bloggers). Not spammy 300-600-worders but 1500-word+ writings of real value (yes, I know there’s a degree of enlightened self-interest for the author, but the wisdom they impart is worth the minor commercialism). Thousands of them.

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Comms professionals are about to face a ‘finite eyeballs’ problem

NewsWhip

Justifiably, it seems everyone is excited about its capabilities—from writing articles to producing videos. Since the invention of the printing press, I doubt we’ve ever had a bigger surge in content quantity. You don’t have to work at a media monitoring company to know that generative AI is hot these days. And everyone is doing that.