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Pioneer John Harold Johnson (1918–2005)

Institute for Public Relations

While he attended the University of Chicago, Johnson worked part-time at Supreme Life Insurance … Continue reading Pioneer John Harold Johnson (1918–2005) → John Harold Johnson was born on Jan. 19, 1918, in Arkansas City, Arkansas.

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

There were newspapers, magazines, wire services, trade publications, TV and radio. Daily newspaper circulation in the United States has fallen from its height of 61.8 About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020.

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Feeling Good: in defence of the New Day

Mark My Words

Since 2005 the circulations have dropped by up to 50% for the Guardian, 40% for the Sun and 30% for the Mail. As Roy Greenslade points out in his frank skewering of the ND it is rather gutsy to pin all your hopes on getting “an audience composed of people who dislike newspapers to buy a newspaper.”. But the ND had a point.

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Behind the Headlines With Jody Fisher

Cision

I led the PR team that worked on the arrival of the Space Shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York — a huge story, on its own — and the final campaign clip report was spread over several successive PDFs and a single printed report used nearly 10 reams of paper packed into enormous binders.

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

Masters in Communications

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. The printing press emerged around 600 years ago, but printed media technically existed for thousands of years.

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How to Write a Media Pitch (That Will Get Coverage)

Buzzstream

It was particularly important for print journalists to follow the inverted pyramid structure because articles would often be “cut from the bottom” (i.e., later paragraphs in the story would be removed to make space for breaking news stories right before the newspaper went to press).

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7 Superior Podcasts for Super Listeners Eyeing the Big Picture

Sword and the Script

Started in 2005 as “The Wall Street Journal this Morning,” and nearly shuttered amid a reorganization in 2014, the show got a second life with an acquisition by Compass Media Networks. This program does for podcasts, what native ads have done for online print. This Morning with Gordon Deal. (~30 30 minute daily program).

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