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

Solo PR Pro

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 When he graduated from the University of Florida, Stu was in the market for a full-time position in radio. Crossing over from broadcast media to PR.

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Meet the Media: John Hitch, Editor of Fleet Maintenance

Bianchi Biz Blog

As with anyone writing about the transportation industry, the transition to zero emission vehicles, and what it takes to service them, is top of mind. Bill to help pay for a journalism degree from Kent State, which I received at the beautiful intersection of 2009 economic collapse and decline of conventional journalism. I used the G.I.

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

Maxim Behar

The reason is clear - advertisers are gradually withdrawing from everywhere - newspapers, television, radio to devote themselves to online media. This is the historical change that will make newspapers, television and radio radically transform and, if they do, survive and thrive, if not, ingloriously leave. What does it do?

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Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

A word of caution, though; if your business’ internal systems and/or processes are broken, there’s no amount of social media activity that can fix that, as Jen Zingsheim and Mark Story point out on last week’s Media Bullseye Radio Roundtable. (It’s Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5 Shall We Tweet?

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How Pink Panties Heralded India's Social Media Movement

Waxing UnLyrical

In the Indian context, the web has begun to move beyond a media genre that was no different in terms of interruption when compared to conventional media like television and radio. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Wanna Subscribe? Shall We Tweet?

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Veterans Day: A Granddaughter Remembers

Waxing UnLyrical

I’m told my grandfather was stunned when he heard over the radio that there would be a blackout drill. Mark as read Approve comment Hello Shona, Thank you so much for writing this, I know it will have been hard to do. Yes, it was tough to write; I honestly didnt know where to begin, and it was emotional too.

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Maxim Behar: Better put yourself in others’ shoes and then judge

Maxim Behar

There are 4 billion opinions, and when you write something on social media, potentially 4 billion people worldwide can read it, regardless of the language, because it can be translated in a second. On Twitter or Instagram, it is a bit harder to recognize the people you are writing to; there are ways. Host: You speak so fascinatingly.

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