Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This piece originally appeared on Contently’s The Freelance Creative. In traditional journalism, diligent fact-checking is a given. This type of work is not journalism, strictly speaking. There are a few standard “rules” to citing sources, too: First and foremost, never rely on Wikipedia.

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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.

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

An example of a hero of free authority: Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia.” My lightbulb went off when I saw the more I gave freely the more creative I became and yes, the more money I make in the present and long run. Displaced Yank Doug is co-founder and creative director of Velocity Partners. Internet lifestyle junkie.

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Mark My Words

DECEMBER 29, 2015

For some of the great blunderers of the year -corporates and celeb-prats- PR’s magical powers were unsurprisingly limited. As the 1,969 PR entries on display at this year’s Cannes Lions showed too many ‘creative interventions’ exist only to mark-up fees. Each year journalism becomes ever more dependent on the press release.

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