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Hold the front page: the news business remains a work in progress

Stephen Waddington

Print, not news, in decline The quarterly Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) data is a depressing read. Print has ceded to digital in all but a few niches. Twitter supplied raw data for an 11 year period from 2006 to 2017. According to Reuters The Guardian has received 600,000 voluntary payments since 2016. million times.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. 6a) June 6, 2016: DOJ Rules on PR Newswire. Vocus , a provider of cloud-based PR software announces it will be acquired by GTCR for $447 million.

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

2016 will be about responsibility. There was nothing remotely authentic in Thomas Cook ’s eventual pay out to the parents of two children poisoned by a faulty boiler at one of its Greek resorts in 2006. In 2016 we will likely see traditional journalism recede even further from original investigation. Forget authenticity.