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The Bandwagon Effect: Momentum Is Everything

Doctor Spin

Source: British Journal of Political Science 1 Marsh, C. British Journal of Political Science, 15, 51 – 74. Source: Journal of Applied Social Psychology 2 Mehrabian, L. Journal of Applied Social Psychology , 28, 2119–2130. Source: Wikipedia 4 Hostile media effect. In Wikipedia. 2022, October 25).

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Digital journalism is alive but is digital PR?

Norton's Notes

Today the BBC announced that it is cutting almost 500 jobs but reinvesting in a further 195 posts to back what it calls ‘digital journalism’. So I think we can safely say that digital journalism is where the BBC believes the future of that industry is headed. So the future of journalism is creative clever digital journalism.

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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

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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Make Time Count By Understanding the 2 Forms of Time

The Proactive Report

Same for teachers or leaders or creatives. Via Wikipedia. As I was journaling about kairos opportunity, someone had a need and texted me. When we talk about time management, we most often mean list and appointment making. Indeed, there are things we must do. When you’re a Mom of children, those lists can be rather long.

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

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. Would many not have been better deployed in the dwindling ranks of investigative journalism ? Each year journalism becomes ever more dependent on the press release. Don’t ask, just swipe.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

Chris: So if anyone’s behind a computer right now, we can all go to Wikipedia, right? And we can see, what does Wikipedia say? And worst-case scenario, you obviously don’t want to be on the negative end of a Wall Street Journal story. The probability of something bad happening.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

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.