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Will India See a Rise in Digital PR?

Waxing UnLyrical

Apart from the usual layoffs, cost reduction, and restructuring, we have seen newspapers and magazines getting thinner, TV stations cutting back on programming, and several publications and channels are on the block. 2,938 crore (~$473.8M) by the end of 2014. It is rightly said that PR and journalism are interdependent.

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How long before brands completely abandon Twitter?

Communications Conversations

Just follow any trending hash tag for 10 minutes–I liken it to the old comment sections in digital newspapers (just one troll after another). Sure, Twitter has a broad smattering of advertising options. And, as social media progresses further and further toward a pay-for-play model, social advertising is everything.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. You have to keep in mind, big corporations can have hundreds of law firms on what they call a “panel.”

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How to Reach Special Publics – The Woman Publics

PR Conversations

Late last year I received an email from Dr. Beverley Wood in Victoria, Australia about Mabel Gertrude Flanley in respect of reference to Mabel in a comment I’d made on a blog post in May 2014. Beverley kindly shared with me the photograph of Mabel, which I’ve supplemented with a newspaper report of her work.

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

PR Conversations

(Not long after contacting the journalist, his network, the agency and some of its clients, Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper reported that the network had suspended the TV anchor. One could hypothesize questions 1 and 2 were debated at both the TV network and the newspaper.). Transparency helps—but it’s not enough.

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

PR Conversations

(Not long after contacting the journalist, his network, the agency and some of its clients, Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper reported that the network had suspended the TV anchor. One could hypothesize questions 1 and 2 were debated at both the TV network and the newspaper.). Transparency helps—but it’s not enough.

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Give Your Content Marketing a Human Face

Waxing UnLyrical

A company immediately differentiates itself from the herd when it links its corporate brand with a human being: Apple and Steve Jobs; Virgin and Richard Branson; Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Twist Image, acquired by WPP in mid-2014, is one of North America’s most recognized digital marketing agencies.