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Prediction: 50% of media relations positions will be eliminated in 10 years

Communications Conversations

On one hand, I see a lot of people still working in an environment similar to 2001. daily newspapers (print and digital) fell 8% in 2016–the 28th consecutive year of declines. And that’s exactly what I want to talk about today. You see, it seems to me we’re at a bit of a crossroads.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In 2016, Bob Ambrogi , a lawyer, and a highly-respected legal journalist, began chronicling the rise of legal technology startups. They are beating Madison Avenue at its own game – and in its hometown newspaper and it’s been doing it for years. Okay, it’s probably not quite that easy. Who do you see advertising on those pages?

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The Best Journalism Movies

Landis PR

By Brianne Murphy Miller ) Almost Famous (2000) 2001 Academy Award Winner Based in the 1970s, “Almost Famous” follows William, a high-school-aged, aspiring rock journalist writing freelance articles for underground papers in San Diego. This award-winning film shares many common attributes to our roles as public relations professionals.  (By

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Way before newspapers, the Romans and Greeks used scrolls, Egyptians used papyrus, and ancient China used a form of paper to distribute information, even if that information was limited to an inner circle of elites or an educated few in those cases. China is credited with starting the world's first newspaper.

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