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ICON 2023 Preview: Award-Winning Journalist Michele Norris on Discussing Race and Creating Community

PRSay

I printed up 200 postcards at my local Kinko’s and passed them around on my travels when I kicked off a 35-city book tour. I was stunned when so many postcards started coming back in the mail, and I scrambled to print more so I could essentially leave them everywhere I went.

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Can Print Still Flourish in The Age of Digital? An Interview with Star Tribune Magazine’s Sue Campbell

MaccaPR

Has digital media – from Huffington Post , Google News and BuzzFeed to Kindle e-books, Twitter and (God help us) more than 8 million blogs – finally vanquished Print? Recent headlines provide brutal evidence: Condé Nast announced last December it was shutting down the print version of Self magazine to go online-only. Long Live Print”!

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Finding the Inspiration to Pitch

PRSay

The common thread among these examples is one thing that these savvy pitching pros did: They exercised their mere humanity and asked their media contacts a useful question, but only after they proved to be worthwhile sources. So many pitches come across like a robot wrote them. A real appeal.

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PR must grow up and appreciate the value of qualifications, learning and research

Stephen Waddington

It blends theory and practice with critical analysis and case studies, campaigns, exercises, and discussion questions. We made a start at reflecting this by adding new material in the past few months as the book went to print. Since the last edition Liz has retired. The COVID-19 pandemic will affect aspects of society and the economy.

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PR Tips For Successful Media Training

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Typically PR teams prepare spokespeople for different types of media – broadcast, print, online as well as different formats. Beyond helping a spokesperson speak effectively for a print interview vs. broadcast, we look to arm clients with intelligence on a few different types of reporters. Exercise control during the interview.

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What makes a media story relevant?

PR for Anyone

That being said, many lifestyle magazines and print publications will not be covering this topic from cover to cover. That could be related to seasonality, holidays, and trending stories. Right now what is relevant is COVID-19. The majority of mainstream news stories are related to that right now.

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Media relations in the wake of COVID-19

PR in High Definition

There’s no question that the media landscape has changed significantly since the start of the coronavirus outbreak – outlets are providing daily online live feeds, newspapers have stopped physically printing and reporters from all over the world are covering the stories and situations from every angle possible.