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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! First, “newspaper” doesn’t exist anymore because the first part, “news,” is gone.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. This is very old – like circa 2010 old.

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Inside the Mind of a Daily Newspaper Business Editor: Q&A With Thom Kupper of the Star Tribune

MaccaPR

If you’re a corporate communications or public relations executive in Minnesota, the status of our state’s largest newspaper – the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune , with more than 250 editors and reporters – is always of intense interest. There’s a challenge because we have to put out 7 newspapers a week. Interviews Media Relations'

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Meet the Media: Vince Bond, Reporter at Automotive News

Bianchi Biz Blog

I started writing in eighth grade for my middle school newspaper in 1999 and was hooked from there. One day, I might pop up with an interview request when I feel they’re a good fit. I graduated from Michigan State in 2010 after transferring from Delta College, a community college in Saginaw. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Meet the Media: Eric D. Lawrence, Automotive Reporter at the Detroit Free Press

Bianchi Biz Blog

The craziest story from the standpoint of realizing I was in the middle of something really big was probably the 2010 Enbridge Oil Spill. I got my start at my high school newspaper and was the editor of my college newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum at West Virginia University.

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Is Media Relations Dead?

Bianchi Biz Blog

the number of media outlets has dropped by almost 60 percent since 2015, with the lion’s share of the decline coming from the daily newspaper ranks; The number of reporters has dropped significantly as well, with U.S. government statistics showing newsroom employment dropping 29 percent since 2010; and.

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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

Politicians dodging media scrutiny The Prime Minister has avoided difficult interviews throughout the General Election campaign, notably with BBC journalist Andrew Neil. In the final days of the campaign he dodged an interview with Good Morning Britain by hiding in a fridge. Homelessness in England fell between 2003 and 2009.