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Are we still over-relying on media relations?

Communications Conversations

Meanwhile, print circulation numbers among the nation’s largest newspapers are plummeting. In fact, if these numbers are accurate, the USA Today went from a print pub circ of 1,424,000 in 2013 to just 299,000 in 2015. Media outreach, at its core, has always been about communicating a message to a key audience, right?

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Flawed Dot Connecting from Washington Post Correlates Rise of PR to the Fall of Journalism

Ishmael's Corner

Since Craigslist eviscerated the classified ads business in newspapers, journalists have been writing the “poor me” story. You can see this mentality implied in the introduction to the 2013 State of the Media from Pew reflecting on the previous year. “In The best non-fiction storytelling on the planet comes from journalists.

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Double-dipping exposes reputation risk in blurred boundaries of PR and journalism

PR Conversations

For example, the Canadian Public Relations Society’s Code of Ethics states that a PR professional “shall deal fairly and honestly with the communications media and the public” and “neither propose nor act to improperly influence the communications media.”. A few days after that, the journalist resigned from his position.

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Double-dipping exposes reputation risk in blurred boundaries of PR and journalism

PR Conversations

For example, the Canadian Public Relations Society’s Code of Ethics states that a PR professional “shall deal fairly and honestly with the communications media and the public” and “neither propose nor act to improperly influence the communications media.”. A few days after that, the journalist resigned from his position.

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The Queen is dead, long live the Queen – Who needs PR?

Mark My Words

To use Robert Thompson’s words: “Rebekah will lead a great team at News UK into the digital future, while maximising the influence and reach of our newspapers, which remain the most informative and successful in Britain and beyond”…blah blah blah. Or does PR itself need to change to keep up with new ecologies of communication?

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

PR 20/20

Overview: First started in 2013, This Old Marketing is THE podcast for content marketers. She regularly works with physicists, computer scientists, and architects, but knows how to communicate the complex topic of AI research no matter where you’re at. Overview: Can we trust our memory? Can we actually multitask? Do we trust facts?