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Social Media Plays an Important Role in Public Relations

Ronn Torossian

Back in the day, public relations meant press releases, stuffy press conferences, and companies hoping that their messages wouldn’t get lost in the stack of newspapers on the consumer’s doorstep. However, those days are long gone, and right now, things are quite different.

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How the Canadian Newspaper Industry Can Adapt to Changes

Business Wire

In March 2017, Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper company, announced 54 layoffs at the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province newsrooms. Declining advertising dollars, low subscription numbers, and the emergence and disruption of digital have all contributed to the financial hardships affecting many Canadian news publications.

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Public Relations Review

PR for Anyone

Now is the time to up-level your marketing plan by adding in free publicity. Most of you are already growing your visibility with social media and now by adding in free publicity, you’re making it all happen that much faster and to a much larger audience. Ask Google, “Who writes about [your topic] at [name of publication]?”

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Social Media Overtakes Print Newspapers as News Source

PRSay

For the first time, social media has surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans, Pew Research Center finds. adults said they often get news from social media, compared to 16 percent from print newspapers. News websites are the next most common source, followed by radio, social media and print newspapers.

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Daily PR lessons that can be learned by reading newspapers

Agility PR Solutions

After several years of being a freelance reporter for a number of New York daily newspapers, I was offered a full-time job at one of them. I was assigned to a news desk, where I had to read all of the competing newspapers to see if they had any […]. But it wasn’t as a reporter.

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

Fifty-five years ago, the first “Public Relations Handbook” that I edited was published. Needless to say, a lot has changed in public relations since 1967. Back then, when we first published the “Public Relations Handbook,” reaching out to the media was relatively straightforward for PR professionals.

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Public Relations Skills

PR for Anyone

In today’s day and age of the internet and access to just about anyone, it’s easy to develop public relations skills and become your own publicist (or have someone on your team do it). Do the same for Realtor Magazine or any other real estate publications and see what they are using for hooks. Develop the skills and do it yourself.