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Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffett Sees Newspapers Dying

Remote PR Jobs

Originally seen on Bloomberg Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is pessimistic on the newspaper industry at a time when public relations specialists are increasingly outnumbering journalists. For the news business, that would extend already sizable declines.

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4 trends in journalism and what they mean for the PR industry

Communications Conversations

Today I thought I’d take a look at some of the macro-level trends happening in the media industry and their impact on us, as PR professionals, in the coming years. Trend #1: Newsrooms are more barren than ever. dropped by 23% between 2008 and 2019. Trend #2: Big-time news is increasingly reported from one of three cities.

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Trends and Best Practices for Media Relations

PRSay

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of newsroom jobs in the United States fell by 26 percent from 2008 to 2020. When it comes to realizing the value of media relations, Op-Ed columns in newspapers are the gold standard.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

The founding HARO was founded by Peter Shankman in 2008 as a Facebook group for journalists in need of sources. The feature “enables organizations to gather on-the-fly insights from global print, broadcast and social media platforms, contextually analyze specific brand mentions or trends, and perform language translations.”

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2015 State of the News Media Report

The Proactive Report

The percentage of Americans who have listened to a podcast in the past month has almost doubled since 2008, from 9% to 17% by January of 2015. Key trends. Newspaper ad revenue declined another 4% year over year, to $19.9 The percentage listening in 2015 was up two points over 2014 levels (15%). Things to consider.

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Met the Media: Ryan Gehm, Editor-in-chief at Truck & Off-Highway Engineering

Bianchi Biz Blog

Can you tell us what types of stories, trends or issues are on your radar now? Powertrain diversification is a major trend, as companies strive to meet stricter emissions regulations and advance their own net-zero and sustainability initiatives.

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Meet the Media: Cristina Commendatore, Editor in Chief of FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

Can you tell us what types of stories, trends or issues are on your radar now? Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer.

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