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Being Smart and Strategic When Navigating the Current News Cycle

PRSay

At MediaSource, we’ve been speaking with our key media contacts to keep a pulse on what’s happening in newsrooms, and speaking regularly with our partners in journalism. Media interest in this story will continue until the public health crisis abates. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is dominating the news cycle in unprecedented ways.

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Confirmation Bias in Media: The Echo Chamber Challenge

Doctor Spin

Source: Digital Journalism 1 Ling, R. Digital Journalism , 8, 596 – … Continue reading When media content is influenced by biases—such as confirmation bias, sensationalism, or media logic—it tends to favour certain narratives or perspectives, often at the expense of a balanced and comprehensive view. Digital Journalism, 8, 596 – 604.

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Maxim Behar for “24 Chasa": "PR crisis management became routine"

Maxim Behar

Are they only dealing with crisis PR in this sick time? Crisis PR has become commonplace. In fact, I've been doing this for at least 40 years - first in journalism and then in business. How did the crisis affect the budgets and prices of online advertising? What does it do? What are the global trends in communications?

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ICON 2020 Preview: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Science Writer Laurie Garrett on COVID-19’s Future

PRSay

A journalist herself, she is the only writer to have received the profession’s “Three P’s”: The Peabody Award for excellence in broadcast and digital media, the George Polk Award to honor achievement in journalism (which she has received twice) and the Pulitzer Prize. We’re very good at it for children because of their pediatric schedules.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Stu Opperman, APR

Solo PR Pro

He developed a love of sports and print media at a young age, and set off to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in journalism. Stu officially opened his firm in November of 2009 and has enjoyed being a solo PR pro ever since. I do a lot of crisis communications, and content production. Maintaining a truly solo PR firm.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Susan Stoga

Solo PR Pro

Originally from suburban Chicago, Illinois, she studied journalism at the University of Iowa, getting her start reporting on elections as early as her sophomore year. Since then, the firm has withstood the test of time, making it through The Great Recession from 2007 to 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. From freelance to firm.

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International Conference Preview: 5 Questions With Journalist Laura Ling

PRSay

Laura Ling is a prolific journalist, with a body of work that includes reporting on slave labor in the Amazon, women’s rights in the Middle East and the energy crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. On the other hand, the big picture landscape of social media’s impact on journalism has also been a dark one.