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AP Style: How relevant is it in 2019?

Communications Conversations

It began as a way to standardize rules around editing based on mass media–specifically, mainstream print media. In the golden age of print, AP Style reigned supreme because editors and reporters used it–therefore, PR types like us were forced to learn it and use it. Think about the genesis of AP Style. Not by a long shot.

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Social Sharing Feeds Our Appetite for News

David PR Group

This happened in 2009 and should have been a clear signal to divest immediately all print media company holdings. I bring up this story not to discuss the long-studied decline of printed dailies but, rather, the latter part of the statement: “If it’s important, someone will send it to me.”

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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

Sword and the Script

These giants, often consumer-oriented corporations, have the pocket-depth to own events and sell tickets or sponsorships. Finally, there are some that have been actually able to sell subscriptions to print magazines they publish (Lifetime Fitness). If there’s any doubt, kids do have a dramatic influence on consumer spending.

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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. 44% of us trust the media most of the time, with the figure rising to 51% for media that we regularly consume. Print has ceded to digital but it’s a work in progress. #2

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How to Boost PR Campaigns With Social Data

Beyond PR

And while companies have often focused on customer support or general engagement with consumers as the primary use case for the social channel, the PR professionals have been under-served in terms of knowing which journalists and influencers on social channels matter the most to their campaigns. .

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Paid Social Media as Surround Sound in B2B Marketing; Off Script No. 39: Betsy Hindman of the Hindman Company

Sword and the Script

My employer launched a print magazine, website and social presence telling stories about health and community to business audiences, which is still going, BetterTennessee.com. Social media for business was then in its infancy, and we were able to reach both decision makers and consumers with a limited budget and get real traction.

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Landing Page, SEO and Blog Secrets: An Interview with Clint Danks of ThinkSEM

MaccaPR

you give a potential consumer limited options on a landing page, that keeps them focused on what you want them to do. Google is 67 percent of the marketplace – Bing and Yahoo, which merged in 2009, make up 28 percent of the SEO market, although they’ve been gaining a bit of ground. That’s the beauty of a landing page over a website.".

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