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Blue Monday- sending out the right signals

Mark My Words

Yet somehow Blue Monday has become an actual thing, a date that registers on our cultural calendar and even has its own Wikipedia page. It is simply not in the interest of journalism to scrutinise their stories too closely. The principle behind Blue Monday is as old as storytelling itself. It’s banal. It’s cynical.

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The Press Release is Not Dead, But It Has Evolved

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

For the backstory on how press releases came to be, see the Wikipedia entry for Press Release – History Evolution of the press release As the media landscape changed, so has the press release. This is one of the reasons I tell PR students that a minor or emphasis in multimedia journalism and journalistic writing is a solid choice.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

Chris: So if anyone’s behind a computer right now, we can all go to Wikipedia, right? And we can see, what does Wikipedia say? And worst-case scenario, you obviously don’t want to be on the negative end of a Wall Street Journal story. 18: The future of storytelling in healthcare communications. read more. #18:

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How the Explainer Changed Digital Media Forever

Contently - Strategy

Aggregation is an old practice in journalism, and digital transformation has only encouraged it. “It’s worth thinking about what we actually want the standard fare of our data journalism—or explanatory journalism, if you prefer that more marketable description—to become,” he wrote. That’s it?

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