Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. Measurement templates.

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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. Local media has been eviscerated, and now many iconic national and global outlets are hurting badly. Partner with our team of seasoned PR professionals today.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For a fee, any organization can upload their press release to a newswire service that distributes it directly to news organizations, much like the original news agencies like Associated Press fed reports to newspapers in the early days of electronic journalism. Keep a check on their pricing as they’re expensive.

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Beyond PR

JULY 18, 2016

With more than 5,000 newspapers, almost 800 dailies, Brazil is 4 th in the world for number of titles, according to the Brazilian Newspapers National Association. Furthermore, print resonates better with Brazilian audiences. 5 Tips from Our Media Relations Expert in Brazil. counterparts.

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B2B PR Sense

JANUARY 5, 2018

A solid PR campaign has the power to bolster your brand. Among its benefits, PR can build relationships with the public, boost brand awareness, increase your credibility, and create loyal customers. If PR can do so much for a brand, why don’t more brands use public relations to begin with?

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Axia PR

AUGUST 15, 2018

The term earned media describes news content featuring or sourcing your brand, products, or services. Earned media coverage comes from media relations when an outlet includes your company, product, service, expert, opinion, or ideas in a news story (online, print, radio, TV, podcast, etc.).

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Media monitoring involves systematically tracking and analyzing media content (such as news articles, social media posts, and broadcast segments) related to a specific brand, industry, or topic. Impressions : The total potential views of media content. What is Social Media Monitoring? news articles).

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Cision

MAY 3, 2016

In this interview, Karen shares how thinking like a journalist will help your media relations strategy, why following up on pitches is so important and what to do before jumping into a career in public relations. What are some key components of a successful media relations strategy? The two are companions.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

It will not just improve your media relations, but also the brand content you offer directly to online audiences. As you build relationships with the media, find out what they need and follow through with those elements. While social media and mobile have changed the news industry, some old school rules still apply.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Public relations, or more precisely media relations, can be a tricky business. The art of getting earned media coverage for a product, service or business is not as easy as it sounds. And while the degree of difficulty varies from brand to brand, the secret to securing editorial is NOT a media release.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

I assign articles to our in-house and freelance staff, work with our graphic artist for our print layout and designs, and work with our sales and management team to ensure our content meets our editorial mission and help with sales. As EIC on FPW, I guide the content and direction of websites, webinars/events, and magazine.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

Rich Oppel, senior advisor for media strategy and management at Crosswind Media & Public Relations, says brands will successfully land media coverage when they can combine their needs with the needs of journalists and their readers. My daily newspaper of choice is…The New York Times. Rapid Fire Round.

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Mora Communications

JANUARY 3, 2018

A gradual sustained approach can successfully establish a business, expert or a brand. . But, for a PR campaign to be successful, you and your public relations team need to be on the same page. Media begets media. Local print publications have different needs than national print.

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Critical Mention

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Have you ever clicked on an interesting article that refers to your industry or brand, only to find that you could not finish reading it unless you have to make a one-time purchase or sign up for a paid subscription? Fortunately, there’s a solution. Share Tweet Share.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. PR leads with earned and owned media but also uses paid and shared media for amplification and targeting. And then there are areas of practice that have moved more rapidly.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2022

My first article on the project also holds a special place in my memory as it was the first big article I wrote after I started in B2B journalism in which I had come up with the idea and it wound up being the cover story for a print issue. Note: Power & Motion was previously known as Pneumatics & Hydraulics.

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Mora Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Whether the country’s economy is soaring or struggling, in the beauty industry, an effective media relations campaign is crucial. If this is your field, start by defining your image, your brand and your target market. Print coverage is still crucial. This will in turn will help interest more media coverage. .

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

As PR pros, we’re all about captivating crafting content that resonates with target audiences, fuels brand loyalty, and drives results. That’s where traditional media comes in. 7 Reasons Traditional Media is Still Relevant in PR 1. Print media is the most trusted source of news in the world at 58% (vs.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The best and brightest public relations teams have guidelines to achieve the best media relations results. Break these rules; improve media relations. Decisions like this depend on brand goals and target audience and should be taken up together by both teams as part of overall media strategy.

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Stuart Bruce

JUNE 24, 2015

Public relations has always been a media neutral discipline. Getting a journalist to write a great case study that appears in a trade magazine (earned) and then buying re-prints of the article (paid) that can be used for direct mail to prospects (paid). Real PR professionals have used whatever channel happens to work.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 5, 2019

Tailored pitches have always been the key to success in media relations. The 2019 Cision Global State of the Media Report contains useful insights for media relations practitioners seeking to cut through with their pitches. About the survey Cision conducted its 2019 State of the Media Survey in February 2019.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A study by a marketing analytics firm found “On average, brands that increased media investment [during a recession] realized roughly a 17 percent growth in incremental sales, and more than half saw subsequent improvements in year-over-year ROIs over a two-year period during the recession.”. Source: 3 Studies Branding and Marketing ).

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NewsWhip

APRIL 28, 2021

The intersection of media relations, social media, & content creation. The effect of brands helping during the Covid-19 pandemic. So we talk about circulation of a magazine, let’s say, so the circulation is how many are printed and put into newsagents. Okay, it needs to be media relations still.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

Diverse and Sophisticated Media Landscape: Hong Kong’s media landscape is highly developed and diverse, with an extensive range of local and international news outlets operating in both English and Chinese. This includes print newspapers, digital news sites, television, and radio stations.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Chief marketing officers are in love with the idea of breaking a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® event record and having their brands bask in the seemingly viral eruption of TV, radio, print and online buzz that comes from that honor. Focus everything for the news media on one shot, one image, one moment.”

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

With print becoming less important to audiences, telling stories in more visual ways is critical – and public relations professionals can help. It might help if public relations professionals incorporated more multimedia assets into the releases they send to reporters. Use Multimedia to Tell a Better Story.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Insider Tip: If you have a large employee base interested in promoting your content, explore a social media service like GaggleAmp or PostBeyond that enables employees to share approved brand content with their personal social networks. For business-to-consumer (B2C) brands, Facebook and Instagram tend to be the most powerful channels.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Media relations remains an important part of the execution of a public relations campaign alongside paid, shared and owned media. Much of the modern public relations business grew up out of media relations and publicity, rooted in storytelling and editorial engagement.

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