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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

In traditional journalism, diligent fact-checking is a given. This type of work is not journalism, strictly speaking. Do I need to parse the fine print of a scientific study every time I cite a statistic? There are a few standard “rules” to citing sources, too: First and foremost, never rely on Wikipedia.

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The Media Kit: What To Include

Doctor Spin

How long should a media kit be? Can a media kit be one page? How do you prepare a media kit? Why make a media kit? What is an influencer media kit? PR Resource: Journalism vs PR What is a media kit? How long should a media kit be? media buyers). In Wikipedia. In Wikipedia.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. Sources: destinationCRM , PRWeb , PRWeb ).

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Cheesier [.]

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Digital journalism is alive but is digital PR?

Norton's Notes

Today the BBC announced that it is cutting almost 500 jobs but reinvesting in a further 195 posts to back what it calls ‘digital journalism’. So I think we can safely say that digital journalism is where the BBC believes the future of that industry is headed. So the future of journalism is creative clever digital journalism.

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

Take Walter Palmer , the American dentist who shot the wrong Cecil while on safari and was dropped in the lions’ den of social media. It aroused the ire and delight of social media, ripped through the papers and received the inevitable warning from the Advertising Standards Authority, guaranteeing extra story mileage.