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New book tells the story of the closure of the corner shop

Stephen Waddington

It’s a social history of the local economy of a corner of York. The sub-Post Office and shop closed in 2009, itself becoming part of the story of the demise of corner shops in the UK. The book is split into six sections, plotting the social history of a local economy of a corner of York.

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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. When he arrived on campus, however, he was amazed by the student-run broadcast stations, including radio and TV stations that would actually compete in the local market for ratings. “I

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

Bianchi Biz Blog

A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. And if you’re pitching based off our editorial calendar, know that we’re working two to three months in advance on feature stories for the print magazine. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Social Sharing Feeds Our Appetite for News

David PR Group

A few years ago when traveling to meet a client, a story about his business was published in the local newspaper that very morning. You don’t get your local paper?” How do you get your news?” “Well, I get The Wall Street Journal at my house, but I dropped the local paper a while ago,” he said. “If I was taken aback.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

William Waugh and Kathleen Tierney, two highly respected colleagues, have written about the profession of emergency management in their 2007 book, Emergency Management: Principles and Practice of Local Government (Washington, DC: ICMA Press, pp. 1 (Printed in Wikipedia, “Lorne M. Retrieved 2009-11-07. In conclusion.

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Can you Profit Directly from Content Marketing? Proceed with Caution

Sword and the Script

Finally, there are some that have been actually able to sell subscriptions to print magazines they publish (Lifetime Fitness). In 2009, I worked for a B2B software company that took sessions from their user conference and packaged them up into a half-day “virtual conference.” Why Profiting Directly Borders on Unrealistic.

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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. It’s why much of the local and regional media is on its knees. In 2009 Nick Davies wrote about the distortion of the media by propaganda in Flat Earth News.