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Happy Birthday World Wide Web

PR in High Definition

Allow me a brief retrospective: it’s 2004 and I’ve just graduated, but I’m visiting friends still at university. Today is the 30 th anniversary of the World Wide Web and it’s come a long way in the last fifteen years. In 2004, the web was barely relevant to my life. There was no twitter, no Instagram.

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News planning, tools and workflow to build an editorial calendar

Stephen Waddington

The reality of modern media is that news stories are published to the web instantaneously. These web-based platforms combine project management tools with a calendar. I suggest you start by scraping the web. Commercial sources are also available such as the Awareness Days UK web service and Kantar Media’s Forward Planner.

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Meet the Media: Michael Freeze, Features Editor at Transport Topics

Bianchi Biz Blog

The most fun was a feature I wrote about the “Right to Repair” around 2004. My first job was an assistant editor/web for a magazine called Transportation & Logistics from Penton Media in Cleveland. Describe the craziest or most fun story you have worked on. It was not the story itself, but rather how the subject is prevalent today.

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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. Over time, the digital community warmed to the term again.

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How to Find Trending Topics Like an Expert

Cision

By time (search within a customized date range – minimum: past hour, maximum: since 2004). By Google Property (web search, image search, news search, Google Shopping, YouTube). We can sort by the following criteria: By country (or worldwide). By category (arts and entertainment, sports, health, et cetera).

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Darth Vader's Good Pitch

Bad Pitch Blog

Check out his good pitch and stay tuned to see why it doesn’t suck. -- From: GOOD PITCH Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2004 5:28 PM To: Jonathan Wilde Subject: Story Idea: What if Darth Vader was a Maxim Intern Dear Mr. Wilde, Can you imagine the mayhem of having Darth Vader on the Maxim staff? Incessant demands for extra-long lunch breaks.

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Turn Off the Cloaked Reporter in this Transparent World

Bad Pitch Blog

I recently saw a faintly veiled query that said “This is for a major business Web site; will disclose publication in response to on-target pitches." A search of her name and some keywords revealed in a second that she was a freelancer who had been covering the financial crisis for Portfolio.com (the new one).

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