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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? Fact-checking becomes even more important when you’re writing about sensitive topics. Sites like Otter.AI

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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. Its almost sad. Cheesier [.]

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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. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.