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Beyond The Wall Street Journal and New York Times: Five Growing Media Outlets That Belong on Your Media List

Buchanan PR

How surprised I was to see that I was watching a broadcast from Cheddar News, a live-streaming business news network that launched in 2016. ProPublica is an independent, non-profit, award-winning newsroom that produces “investigative journalism with moral force.” First, it’s great journalism. ProPublica.

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The evolution of mainstream media and the need for every company to become a media company

Presspage

By 2010, three decades later, there were four PR professionals for every journalist in the U.S. It serves an important social need and legacy media like the Washington Post are showing that really good journalism can make a publication viable even in today’s fragmented market. It’s just a fact of life.

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Press Releases aren’t Dead but Maybe Press Release Distribution Is

Sword and the Script

In turn, I put together a pitch with a link and reached out to reporters I thought would be interested. Similarly, I read the Wall Street Journal, and there are plenty of people that do not. We couldn’t get in to post and distribute an announcement. So, we kept going without it. The point is, what is news…is highly subjective.

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12 of the Best Marketing Podcasts that Will Up Your Game in 2020

PR 20/20

Blair is CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training and coaching program for creative professionals, and has spent 25 years in advertising and design. He also wrote The Win Without Pitching Manifesto and Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour. MAICON Speaker Series. Start listening: Podcast website.

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What I Learned From NOT Blogging

Journalistics

As part of my effort to get the blog back on track in 2016, I spent the past month doing some quantitative and qualitative analysis to better understand how this happened. As both a journalism and PR purist, I was passionate about exploring topics from both sides of the table (a byproduct of my education in PR and Journalism).

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What I Learned From NOT Blogging

Journalistics

As part of my effort to get the blog back on track in 2016, I spent the past month doing some quantitative and qualitative analysis to better understand how this happened. As both a journalism and PR purist, I was passionate about exploring topics from both sides of the table (a byproduct of my education in PR and Journalism).

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Vocus had, in years prior, acquired brands including PRWeb for $28 million in 2006, Help a Reporter Out, aka HARO, for an undisclosed sum in 2010 , and iContact, for $169 million in 2012. Terms were not disclosed but the Wall Street Journal reported a price tag of about $240 million. 6a) June 6, 2016: DOJ Rules on PR Newswire.