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The Steep Mental Exercise of Child’s Hill

Sword and the Script

At this next race, Child’s Hill was to be the difference, according to the opposing coach as reported in our town newspaper. He also read the town newspaper. Child’s Hill was a Mental Exercise. He took us out there to exercise our minds. The Hardest Sport in the World.

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Writing For Journalism And Writing For PR: How They Differ

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

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. Here’s a useful exercise for PR people: go back to the first things you wrote in PR and see if they can be trimmed. Compare then and now.

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What makes a media story relevant?

PR for Anyone

If you are looking to land on television or be featured in a daily or weekly newspaper, your likelihood goes up when you tie the story to the current condition with coronavirus. The good news is that the media is now looking for other stories related to this.

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Meet the Media: Kurt Nagl, Manufacturing Reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business

Bianchi Biz Blog

My first non-school newspaper gig was at the China Daily in 2013. Exercising, often reading newspapers and satire, playing guitar and curating my Spotify playlists. Well, counting the good old Cub News at UDJ, more than a decade (woah, really?!) I started in high school and never stopped.

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Communicators Can Help Americans Vote in 2020

PRSay

Expanding the right to vote to include more citizens has been an ongoing exercise since the Constitution came into force 231 years ago. Each stage of this expansion has involved PR campaigns to sway public opinion.

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Message in a Bottleneck: How to Reach Your Fragmented Audience

PRSay

Here’s what’s important about this exercise: The average number of viewers for those shows was 38 million in 1998, 27.8 The same thing has happened with newspapers. No soup for you if you didn’t get “Seinfeld,” “American Idol” and “The Big Bang Theory,” respectively. That was just for fun. million in 2008 and 18.6

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Behind the Headlines With Stuart Pfeifer

Cision

But the newspaper climate has changed. I’m confident that the skills I developed in more than two decades as a newspaper reporter will serve our clients well. I always thought I’d be… a newspaper reporter. Exercising before work clears my mind, energizes me and puts me in a great mindset to tackle the day.