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Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004 or early 2005…and then interest waned. Think: bloggers, influencers, podcasters and so on.

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8 Ways to Make Your Press Release More Effective

Cision

According to a survey of the releases distributed by (a certain PR firm) on one day: 78% of public relations people spend extra money to dress up their releases with printed letterheads and color…the 78% broke down into 34% on a simple black letterhead, 16% on a one-color letterhead, and 28% on a letterhead with two or more colors.

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Research Shows Journalists Want More Multimedia from PR Pros

Beyond PR

With print becoming less important to audiences, telling stories in more visual ways is critical – and public relations professionals can help. In 2004, Jon Forsythe was one of just a handful of Washington Post journalists who were given a video camera and told to go report on the news. Send More Multimedia in PR Pitches.

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Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

The Taylor Bennett Foundation , Blueprint and mine and Sarah Waddington’s community interest company Socially Mobile aim to make specific interventions but this issue needs to be addressed downstream. The New York Times printed the article in full. The print edition went monthly in 2013, and bi-monthly in 2016.

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