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How To Score A Great Local News Story: 5 PR Tips

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It’s also important to determine whether a story has its best chance of being published as a local media item, or if it warrants a full national media outreach. For example, survey results or breaking news at a national company will be pitched to national media, whereas region-specific news will be offered to local reporters.

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Facebook is local media

Stephen Waddington

Local Facebook pages and groups are replacing local media according to research from Braintree, Essex. By Dan Slee If there’s one thing I can tell you it’s that Facebook groups and pages in a local area are huge. No wonder that the small ads of newspapers have been gutted. Dan Slee shares his workings in this guest post.

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Facebook is local media

Stephen Waddington

Facebook pages and groups are replacing local media according to research from Braintree, Essex. By Dan Slee If there’s one thing I can tell you it’s that Facebook groups and pages in a local area are huge. No wonder that the small ads of newspapers have been gutted. Overall, 15 per cent of content was local government-related.

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S&T Live Recap: Melissa Vela-Williamson, APR, on Building a Professional Network

PRSay

Last year, she had the chance to support the local humane society’s 70th-anniversary campaign, along with her firm MVW Communications in San Antonio, Texas. During a PR internship, the student had helped arrange a newspaper story about a nonprofit that helped people with missing limbs learn to waterski.

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How the PESO Model Changes PR’s Conversation

Cision

Although your executives may get excited when an acquaintance at the gym compliments them on their local business journal profile, they’re going to get a lot more excited when you can show them your PR efforts generated revenue for your organization. In PR, paid media is social media advertising, sponsored content, and email marketing.

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Meet the Media: Vesna Brajkovic, Managing Editor of Heavy Duty Trucking & TruckingInfo.com

Bianchi Biz Blog

I think this article is one we’ll reference back to for quite some time. By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper. Once I graduated, I had to make the choice: newspapers or trade pubs. It covers many big issues in a digestible way.

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Behind the Headlines With Sharon Ward Keeble

Cision

I wanted to be a writer from an early age and after I completed a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course when I was 18, I started working for my local newspaper in Cheshire, England, where I lived. Where do you find expert sources to reference in your stories?