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How the Canadian Newspaper Industry Can Adapt to Changes

Business Wire

In March 2017, Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper company, announced 54 layoffs at the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province newsrooms. Perhaps none have been affected more than print newspapers. Hinds is optimistic that the newspaper industry can take advantage. “We It’s a business challenge, not a reader challenge.”

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Ricky Gervais is right (and wrong) about the local paper

Prakkypedia

In Ricky Gervais’s latest TV series, After Life , he’s a writer at a free community newspaper. After several grumpy episodes interviewing local people about their so-called “stories”, Ricky’s character has an epiphany. He says ‘ everybody deserves to be in their local paper’ at least once in their lives.

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4 trends in journalism and what they mean for the PR industry

Communications Conversations

Supporting stat: One-in-five newsroom employees live in New York, Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. With the majority of newspapers now having paywalls (and more trade pubs every day), the reach of that story you just got placed is extremely limited. Trend #4: Local news has a capital shortage. Newspapers are struggling.

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Theory: Boomers in PR don’t trust influencers or influencer culture

Communications Conversations

newspapers have shed HALF their newsroom employees since 2008. And, we’re seeing more community and local newspapers close shop every day. Locally, here in Minnesota, we’ve seen a number of community newspapers close just this year. According to Pew , U.S. And, if you’ve read the St.

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How Communicators Can Help Their Clients Navigate Misinformation and Biased News

PRSay

The traditional notion of “bad press” is negative coverage in a reputable journalism outlet that exposes legitimate complaints about a company — for example, coverage of a shareholder lawsuit, or a scandal about workplace conditions in a local or national newspaper. PR teams have been handling these kinds of events for years.

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Communicators Can Help Americans Vote in 2020

PRSay

3, Americans will cast their votes for President and for state and local candidates. Communicators have “a lot of great partners out there” who can help provide their employees with local voting information, said panelist Kelly Mason, director of corporate communications at Levi Strauss & Co.,

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How to Effectively Communicate Your Rebrand

Cision

Start with your employees. If your employees don’t understand or identify with your rebrand, no one else will. This could be as simple as getting feedback on a new logo design or conducting a mini focus group to see what your employees think about your company narrative. Take all your properties into account. Conclusion.