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The Silicon Valley Watcher to publish on PressPage

Presspage

In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to become a full-time journalist blogger. He writes the blog Silicon Valley Watcher — reporting on the collision of media and technology. Press release! In 2006, Foremski published one of his most unforgettable blogs titled Die!

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Doug Levy

Solo PR Pro

I was that first grader who wanted to start up a class newspaper,” he jokes when describing himself. After spending most of the 1990s covering healthcare for USA Today, the newspaper transferred him to San Francisco to cover technology. I figured I was going to have some time without income,” he says recalling March 2020.

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P.T. Barnum: “There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity”

Doctor Spin

Ahead of others in his time, he actually understood the importance of media coverage (he started New York’s first illustrated newspaper in 1853) and believed ‘there is no such thing as bad publicity,’ a popular phrase many times attributed to Barnum himself.” — Ashley Foster, APR 1 The End of a Publicity Era: How Ringling Bros.

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Flawed Dot Connecting from Washington Post Correlates Rise of PR to the Fall of Journalism

Ishmael's Corner

Since Craigslist eviscerated the classified ads business in newspapers, journalists have been writing the “poor me” story. Let’s examine the job growth for the two professions during preceding eight-year period from 1997 to 2004 ( Occupational Employment and Wages data which only goes back to ’97) in the chart below.

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Maxim Behar in Kamen Vodenicharov's show "The Evening of." on 7/8 TV

Maxim Behar

Our guest has had a remarkable career beginning as a newspaper correspondent. In the past 30 years, I have met many editors-in-chief of publications and newspapers, but I haven’t called any of them asking to do me a favor and publish something. Maxim: 2 cents worth of Work Affairs, which was a big newspaper.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

Few practitioners even know how to code with HTML (let alone anything more sophisticated) or have a working knowledge of design packages, macros or to be honest, how to use the full capabilities of word-processing or presentation software. But its not just futurology where we are weak.

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Research Shows Journalists Want More Multimedia from PR Pros

Beyond PR

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. While he does think everyone should be thinking about how to create content in multiple ways, he mostly sticks to the written word. How many hours do you want to spend on this?”