Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

She began her career as an aspiring newspaper reporter, securing an internship at the Atlanta Journal Constitution before becoming a daily reporter in Greenville, South Carolina, not far from her hometown. Pivoting from journalism to PR. I knew that journalism was changing,” she said. “I

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Ishmael's Corner

APRIL 28, 2015

Since Craigslist eviscerated the classified ads business in newspapers, journalists have been writing the “poor me” story. At some point, it became fashionable for these “poor me” stories to blame the PR industry for journalism’s shrinking job pool. The best non-fiction storytelling on the planet comes from journalists.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I wonder how these schools “covered” this game from a news, storytelling and social media perspective. I grabbed coffee with Kate a couple weeks ago to talk about the game and how they approached it from a storytelling and social media perspective. It was, essentially, an internal newspaper for the University of St.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

He answered the reporters’ questions as completely and honestly as possible, but he didn’t linger in the room. I don’t think newspapers will exist as we know them, and TV will be changed a great deal, too. Journalism is supposed to tell both sides of the story well, to give you the information and let you decide how you feel about it.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Lately, I’ve been focusing on the medium for storytelling and trying to take the most advantage of the tools at my disposal. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started by writing for the Arts & Life section of my college newspaper at The University of Akron roughly 12 years ago.

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Solo PR Pro

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I was that first grader who wanted to start up a class newspaper,” he jokes when describing himself. After college, Doug was a typical journalism nomad, working in newsrooms in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. Doug started freelancing for NPR in 1979 when he entered college at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

How do you think your background in journalism will help you in this new role? How did you make the switch from journalism to PR? I ended 45 years in journalism when I retired as editor of the Austin American-Statesman in 2008, so it didn’t feel like a “switch” so much as completing one phase of my life. It’s all storytelling.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Like many in PR, advertising, and journalism, I was relieved when Google and Facebook announced they would ban “fake news” sites from using use their ad services. Post-factual “news” isn’t merely annoying or even just a threat to journalism – it’s a magnet for the mentally unstable.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Earned media still the most credible source of info Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Their study was published in the Journal of Promotion Management and summarized in a piece for the Institute for Public Relations ( IPR ). Try our services.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

What was behind your decision to switch from journalism to PR? Read Cision’s free “State of the Media 2016 Report!” But honestly, I had just left my previous gig as a reporter, and I was looking for something new. How will your background in journalism help you in this new position? We’re numb to it.

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

We’ve watched traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television decrease in importance thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other social platforms. Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism. Whether the effect is positive or negative, AI will likely impact PR and communications.

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2015

(Not long after contacting the journalist, his network, the agency and some of its clients, Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper reported that the network had suspended the TV anchor. One could hypothesize questions 1 and 2 were debated at both the TV network and the newspaper.). Transparency helps—but it’s not enough.

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Ishmael's Corner

DECEMBER 14, 2014

A post scheduled for next week calls it the best daily newspaper in the country. Plus, the reporting strays from the NYT’s standards of fairness. Ravi Somaiya who handled the bulk of the reporting commented that “Covering the media can be a surreal job.”. Dec 6 The Old Journalism and the New.

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Ishmael's Corner

JANUARY 25, 2015

As reported in the Omaha World Herald , Buffett thought for a few seconds and then reached for the stack of reports, trade publications and other papers he had brought with him. Here are seven suggestion that deplete my stash of 3M stickers often highlighting storytelling techniques: 1. Happy reading!

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2015

(Not long after contacting the journalist, his network, the agency and some of its clients, Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper reported that the network had suspended the TV anchor. One could hypothesize questions 1 and 2 were debated at both the TV network and the newspaper.). Transparency helps—but it’s not enough.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

Newspapers are cutting staff. Paul Business Journal). I anchored and reported there for almost 18 years. You know you have skills but you don’t know how they will translate outside of journalism. The journalism world is much more fast-paced. Teaching people on the PR side about the journalism side.

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PRSay

AUGUST 14, 2019

You have a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. Did you ever consider a career as a reporter, and what journalism skills do you rely on in your job today? I worked for my school newspaper, and when I joined the Marines I was a public affairs officer. We ran a base newspaper.

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Cision

JUNE 21, 2016

Going into college I just knew that I would be a reporter at a newspaper. I love that working in PR provides a different storytelling opportunity that you don’t get working for a paper. After that summer, I changed my concentration in the journalism school and never looked back! What drew you to the field of PR?

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PRSay

JUNE 6, 2017

Here, the TV personality — known for his “In the Papers” feature humorously summarizing the New York daily newspapers — talks about engaging an audience, storytelling, the newsgathering process and work-life balance. 1 is that all journalism is an oversimplification of something — you can’t tell 100 percent of the story.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Carbon as a metric - PR practitioners must measure carbon in the rush to address ESG concerns as a report suggests that the UK is woefully unprepared for climate risk. Misinformation: The internet is a sewer The Edelman Trust Barometer 2021 reports an epidemic of misinformation and widespread mistrust. This agency market is our home.

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

Last night, Help A Reporter Out (HARO ) brought four major USA Today leaders – Jeff Dionise, Beryl Love , Patty Michalski and Susan Page – together at an invite-only event in downtown Washington, D.C. Once you’ve established that, then pitch a reporter, he continues. Think about what an editor or reporter would do.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

I thought to myself: “Everything we do is storytelling!” I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree. I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Gannett recently “downsized” 350 jobs and the Wall Street Journal laid off 48 (although to be fair, the Washington Post – with 750 newsroom positions – is adding dozens of journalists ). Mike recognizes that newspapers that pulled away from their daily print publishing were hurt by it. And do you read books?

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

But, a number of stats and reports lately (not to mention consumer behavior trends in general) have got me thinking: We may be well past the tipping point. Think Netflix + The Wall Street Journal (and a bunch of others here ). Meanwhile, print circulation numbers among the nation’s largest newspapers are plummeting.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. The organizations who take their ESG, DEI, and social impact strategies seriously will be the ones who are unafraid to show their progress, no matter how big or small it may be, with a combination of visual and written storytelling.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Way before newspapers, the Romans and Greeks used scrolls, Egyptians used papyrus, and ancient China used a form of paper to distribute information, even if that information was limited to an inner circle of elites or an educated few in those cases. China is credited with starting the world's first newspaper.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Much of the modern public relations business grew up out of media relations and publicity, rooted in storytelling and editorial engagement. If you read an article about an individual or organisation in your favourite magazine or newspaper you’re likely to view it far more favourably than if you heard the information direct.

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Flatiron Communications

JULY 5, 2022

Of course, this media-obsessed PR person took note of the scores of top tier journalists moderating, reporting, and/or speaking on stage. I gravitated to the Centre Stage, but checked out the PandaConf (ad/marketing), and FourthEstate (media/journalism) stages. This is our audience.”. Here’s a link to The AP’s blog post on the session.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

In 2004, Jon Forsythe was one of just a handful of Washington Post journalists who were given a video camera and told to go report on the news. Technology is so advanced that reporters can shoot and edit a short 90-second video in 15 or 30 minutes,” he says. Download the 2018 Global State of the Media Report.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

DC Reporters Discuss How Social Media Has Changed the Game on PR Newswire’s media blog Beyond Bylines. Although the trio’s conversation focused on the state of journalism in the District, the obstacles and opportunities they discussed not only apply to most news markets, they also impact their PR counterparts.

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Maxim Behar

MARCH 6, 2022

And then when communism collapsed in the early 1990s, I was a reporter or correspondent in Warsaw, Poland. And then when I came back, I started Standard Daily as one of the first, if not the first private newspapers in Bulgaria, in my native country Bulgaria where I live. I was a great risk. So, the crux is that we had 10 hours.

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Databox pulls all of an organization’s data into one place to help users automate reporting and more effectively visualize that data. Through a blend of science and storytelling, Hidden Brain uncovers the “unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices, and direct our relationships.”. Can we actually multitask?

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

Melissa Thibodo is the whole package – she is incredibly bright with PR strategy, she is among our top student writers and editors in the journalism school, she has unparalleled relationship building skills, and she has a strong foundation of real-world experience. (written by Tiffany Gallicano) . Karie Mooney, @karies_korner.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 23, 2019

The first approach yields a timeline of newspaper articles, which you can piece together to create a full story. Aggregation is an old practice in journalism, and digital transformation has only encouraged it. ” He described the Vox mission to The Content Strategist and other reporters at a recent press event.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

You’ll need to speak their language to recruit them, and veteran newspaper reporters don’t necessarily know what “ map against your KPIs ” means. You wouldn’t buy a CMP without data reporting capability, and the really stellar options have a transparent workflow management interface. Hub and spoke.

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