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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

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. Reddit data.

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How Niche Social Media Platforms Like Quora Can Be Valuable for PR

Cision

An AMA on Reddit, a Facebook post, or a Tweet would have organically distributed their message far more effectively than posting to Quora. One of the biggest critiques of brand communication on social platforms is that businesses surrender much of their messaging to social fans. So why post to Quora? Quora as an event.

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Changes in journalism impacting PR

Prakkypedia

Journalists are responsible for building their own brands. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn and so on have enabled journalists to use social media to build their own brand, to inhabit online communities and find news and news sources, and to be more accessible to news tips from the public.

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Behind the Headlines With Neil McAllister

Cision

With so much content saturating the marketplace today, how can brands stand out? Now think about a brand like Apple. And yet everybody still connects the Apple brand with the story of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, toiling in their garage, making one of the first-ever home computers. My daily newspaper of choice is…newspaper?

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Shep Gordon: “Make Parents Angry”

Doctor Spin

(Image: Alice Cooper’s Facebook Page ) Gordon was instrumental in developing Cooper’s shock-rock persona, using outrageous stunts and controversial events to generate publicity and build Cooper’s brand. Shep Gordon recognised this incident’s potential to enhance Cooper’s brand as a shock rock artist. Alice Cooper and the snake “Yvonne.”

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How to Build A Media List (Without Paying For One)

Buzzstream

Reddit users echo this in the space as well: MuckRack found in its State of Journalism 2024 that an irrelevant pitch to a journalist is the top reason they won’t cover a post. You can see this also echoed on Reddit. Your stakeholders may want to build brand awareness. Keep in mind that each of the below are pieces of the puzzle.