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How Social Media Is Paving a New Path for Journalism

Cision

More than half of journalists surveyed in Cision’s recent Social Journalism Study believe that they would not be able to carry out their work without turning to their social media accounts for help. billion of them accessing the site on a mobile device), Facebook is the world’s biggest social network. billion monthly active users (1.2

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Maxim Behar: Social media is the realm of free speech, which makes our world better

Maxim Behar

And I don't want to belittle the journalist profession - journalism is extremely responsible, influential, and highly qualified because it influences society. In a newspaper, you first have to report the information, then the newspaper has to be printed and distributed. Maxim: On Facebook, in most cases, you can.

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Newsprint in pain as COVID-19 bites, so what’s next?

Stephen Waddington

A perfect storm of distribution and falling advertising revenue is a blow to the newsprint business after two decades of battling the shift from print to digital. In the first month of the crisis Facebook reported an increase of 50% in usage of its services. Long form, reflective and specialist journalism also appear to be robust.

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Depressed and depressing: the state of UK news media

Stephen Waddington

News media in pain Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital. Popular newspaper brands have suffered double digit falls in print circulation with the Daily Star (-18%), Daily Mirror (-13%), and Daily Express (-12%) hardest hit. Facebook and Google account for almost 60% of the online advertising market.

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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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PR Rock Stars: Life Time’s Dan DeBaun

Communications Conversations

Paul Business Journal reporting on retail and restaurants before I started my career at Life Time in May 2018. I really appreciated my time in radio and print journalism. Of course, being exposed to so many local business leaders during my time at the Business Journal was a blessing. I did– and it is epic! ).

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Why Wordle Should Have You Rethinking Your Earned Media Strategy

Shift Communications

Earlier this year, Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism issued its annual Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions report. They’re looking to invest more in platforms like TikTok and Instagram and divest spend from Facebook and Twitter.

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