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PRSA Introduces Innovative Program to Guide Journalists Transitioning Into PR and Communications

PRSay

Through the years, the PR and comms fields have been attractive landing spots for journalists with their writing and storytelling skills and media prowess. Journalists have excellent communications skills, such as writing and the ability to speak clearly and concisely. Many of the most successful PR executives were former journalists.

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Public Relations Review

PR for Anyone

Be Newsworthy My biggest piece of advice when it comes to publicity is to start locally. Local media loves to cover stories about local businesses. Did you invent a new product, write a book, or win an award? Those are all topics that interest local media. Make your business newsworthy. New” is the key word.

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Newsjacking with David Meerman Scott

PR for Anyone

You may consider writing blogs that are relevant to worldwide happenings so that more people can find you online, or you can use social media platforms like Twitter. If you know that particular reporters are right in your wheelhouse, and they're writing about the thing that you are an expert in, you can tag that reporter on Twitter.

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What PR Professionals Can Learn from Being Reporters First

Barokas

Before I discovered PR, I was dead set on becoming a fashion journalist. As a reporter, I was often tasked with writing 1,500 words on a nonsense subject. If you can write that much on why army green complements horizontal stripes, you can spin a story out of anything. You learn to how to write for an audience.

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10 things the PR consultants won’t tell you about PR consultants

Communications Conversations

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I’m a big devotee of reading the hard copy print edition of my local newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. But at the end of the day we write off a fair amount of work. They got more fashionable. And, like many, I particularly enjoy the Sunday edition.

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Qualify Hard; Close Easy: Leads in Unscripted Marketing Links

Sword and the Script

So I turned to a local repair shop to see what could be done. That day, I became a lead and one that converted the old fashioned way: retail foot traffic. Content, Local Search and Leads. But that’s not how this local business gets most of its leads, according to the owner George Roberts.

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Man Bites Dog: Newspapers Outlive Themselves, Blissful Ignorance Becomes Artform

Bad Pitch Blog

There''s "Bits" with several of our well-informed friends writing on tech-smart topics far and wide. This is problematic because - everyone take notes - there are smart people in the world who write blogs without needing the validation of being called an "expert." Your own paper has blogs that are starters. Heavy sigh.