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

Stephen Waddington

In time it also turned its attention to shared and paid, as search and social media advertising and promotion matured. 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. But these are exceptions and not the norm.

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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. As much as I believe in PR, and understand it’s potential, I’m also a realist: the biggest PR firms in the world are owned by advertisers. Image credit: Pixabay.