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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. Technology has changed communication behaviors, too.

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Media relations is thriving

Stephen Waddington

The rise of mass media, namely print newspapers, magazines, radio and television, provided a shortcut to large audiences and it enabled the business to operate at scale. At the same time, the ability to print fast and cheaply bought about a concurrent revolution. As a result print circulation has fallen dramatically.

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

Masters in Communications

As technology advances, we require up to the minute information quickly and efficiently. Mass communication is a subarea of communications studies in the US, and social science with some elements of physical science - especially when designing systems and technology to transmit messages. Mass communication aims to meet these needs.

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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. The ability of these technology companies to collect data and connect citizens with brands and organisations, at a moment in time, is potent. It almost seems unfair.

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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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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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