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Writing For Journalism And Writing For PR: How They Differ

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

I was a journalism major, so most of my writing experience in college had a reporting angle. Whether it was through classes, writing for the school newspaper , or my personal blogs, my writing involved reporting facts, interviewing subjects, and taking down their quotes. What are you writing about? You report the facts.

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How To Write A Pitch For Digital PR In 2021: A Complete Guide

Buzzstream

Pitches can make or break a PR campaign. You could have a contact list brimming with journalists, and a potentially-viral campaign, but if you hit send on a flat pitch don’t be surprised if you fail to get opens or coverage. Getting Pitch Perfect. It’s as simple as that. However, I’ll explain exactly why this is in point 9.

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“Internal” PR: Takeaways for Summer 2016

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

A wave of mild panic is sweeping over public relations agencies all over the land this week as this year’s crop of summer interns prepares to go back to school. If you already have a rigid gameplan for a student intern, be prepared to trash it. Your intern may be a beer geek, an art maven, or a whiz at editing smartphone videos.

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3 Keys to Running Successful Internal M&A Comms Campaigns [Guest Post]

Sword and the Script

Leaders should plan and execute comms around M&A with the same level of detail as any other marketing campaign or business initiative writes Dwayne Alicie in this guest post. You can produce anonymous internal surveys, if nothing else. Internal M&A comms is essentially a reputation and brand management play. Do not rush.

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What's Your Why?

PR for Anyone

Doing that internal work to discover that, helps with every aspect of your business. A great exercise is to just sit down and lay this out. I repeatedly write about authenticity. And then how do you start pitching? What makes you do what you do? The majority of us are not in business solely to make money.

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Create a Content Hub that Drives PR Results

Cision

If not, complete the following exercise: Write down all of the questions you are asked in new business—aka sales—meetings. Write down all of the questions your customer service department is asked. Go to your website or your internal server/Dropbox/Google Drive and grab your most recent frequently asked questions sheet.

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How We’re Using AI in Public Relations & Protecting Against It

Shift Communications

They are as follows and are based on those internal discussions, as well as on outside perspectives, including the PR Council Guidelines on Generative AI. How we don’t: to write press releases, talking points or other materials that are not already in the public domain. For a fun exercise, ask ChatGPT to write your bio.