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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

My friend, Lou Hoffman calls it the “F word” in storytelling – failure. Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. A voice of reason implies transparency and candor. Find him on Twitter @Frank_Strong.

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Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder

Sword and the Script

It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. 5) planning and strategy (37%).

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New Survey Identifies the Hottest Trends in Corp Comm and PR; Announcing the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Sword and the Script

Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. Ned is a retired senior naval officer who launched the “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR pros looking for work. The 2018 JOTW Communications Survey from Frank Strong.

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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

If they’re not currently engaged with an agency, most communicators have either had an agency relationship in their past or can look forward to having one in the future. When it comes to hiring an outside agency, 54% said they brought an agency on board when they needed an extra set of hands. The Latest & Greatest.

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Masters in Marketing Interview: Paul Furiga, WordWrite Communications

Mindful Marketing

Paul Furiga is chief storyteller, founder and CEO of WordWrite Communications. The people who know us best, our clients, would tell you that at heart, we’re great storytellers. To us, storytelling is the fundamental essence of how people communicate. By Christine Perkett. Which is the most challenging one?

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Paying for the destruction of public relations

PR Conversations

In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. Apparently Paid media is a New Age Model of PR (warning that’s a link to an agency’s promotional post!).

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The 5Ps of Marketing Artificial Intelligence

PR 20/20

These are the questions we sought to answer in spring 2015 when I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale at my content marketing agency, PR 20/20. More specifically, can we use machines to write blog posts at scale?”. I’d had a growing fascination with artificial intelligence since IBM Watson won on Jeopardy!