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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. in order to access HARO queries.

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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. The print edition of the New York Times alone reaches more people than the Huffington Post, so great newsrooms can still live in this digital environment.” It’s just a fact of life.

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Traditional Media: From Endangered To Extinct

Maxim Behar

In 1999, in an interview with Bulgarian online media expert Justin Toms, I declared that print newspapers would be gone by 2025. Max, you’re going against your livelihood — you started in the press, with the printing press and newspaper ink! And by “press,” I don’t just mean newspapers, but also the actual printing press.

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Is Public Relations Management a Technology? [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

A handful of companies that make software for public relations are staking a claim on the term. It wasn’t funny then, but I can smile now remember how the company executives would nearly breakdown every time a reporter labeled it a “customer relationship database.” In an interview with PRWeek, the company likened it to a CRM for PR.

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#PR Expanded [Guest Post]: Drawn To The Spotlight, Part 1

Deirdre Breakenridge

In this two-part series, I will share with you how some people are naturally drawn to the spotlight, and what companies can do to harness that talent to engage their customers to drive sales. I launched my group in May 2010, and with the help of my members we have grown the group into a vibrant and engaged community. It’s in their DNA.

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Reputation on social media – Comms must own it or lose it

NewsWhip

Companies, like people, need a minimum threshold of reputation to operate in society. If everyone believes a company is cooking their books, ruining the environment, abusing their staff, burning their suppliers, they’ll soon lose customers, staff, and, in regulated industries, their literal license to operate. No More Heroes Any More.

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Dealmaking Sizzles Again Among PR Software Providers and Here Comes Another Side Dish of Generative AI for Comms [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Meltwater to become a private company upon completion of the transaction.” the ‘Offeror’) is a newly incorporated private limited company incorporated and registered under the laws of the Netherlands acting as special purpose acquisition vehicle in connection with the Offer and will be indirectly majority owned by Altor and Marlin.”