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Journalism and News Trends for PR Pros

Cision

The revenue model for journalism is at best in flux, and at worst, in chaos. Serious journalism from unexpected sources. Cracked , a pop culture-focused humor site, started adding occasional serious topics, such as war refugees from Syria, home foreclosures and sexual assault to its coverage in 2014 and increased the number in 2015.

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

In 2015 we all loved authenticity, right? Beyoncé , rated as 2015’s most powerful female musician, hasn’t given an interview since 2013. 2015 was a vintage year for pointless stunts. As the 1,969 PR entries on display at this year’s Cannes Lions showed too many ‘creative interventions’ exist only to mark-up fees.

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2015 World PR Report: Concerns Around Media Relations And Measurement

Mindful Marketing

Patrick Coffee had insightful commentary on the Holmes Report’s 2015 World PR Report , where he “respectfully disagreed” with the report’s claim that “media relations skills are not seen as particularly relevant.”. Creativity is nice. By Seedepth. Last week PR Newser wrote an interesting article on the value of media relations.

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More Journalists Find Social Media Helpful, Useful to Assignments

Cision

By analyzing the perceptions and attitudes of over 3,000 journalists from 11 countries, Cision’s “ 2015 Global Social Journalism Study ” emphasizes the change in journalists’ opinion. Want to learn all of the key findings on social journalism? Get Cision’s “ 2015 Global Social Journalism Study ” today!

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Why Content Marketers Shouldn’t Ignore Traditional Media

Cision

Edelman’s 2015 Trust Barometer Study found that for the first time, online search engines surpassed traditional media as the most trusted news source among the general public. Army Europe Images , Alan Levine , Elvert Barnes ( Creative Commons ). These advantages allow traditional media to do what online media simply cannot.

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Public Relations Objectives

Doctor Spin

Source: Journal of Communication 1 Botan, C., & Taylor, M. Journal of Communication, 54, 645–661. To get started, you develop a creative concept and a marketing strategy, which you pair up with copywriting and art direction to create your assets. Source: Journal of Accounting and Economics 5 Brown, L.,

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Journalists Less Skeptical, More Reliant on Social Media

Cision

Social media has turned the journalism world upside down, changing the way media outlets reach their audiences, PR professionals pitch their clients and journalists source their stories. Click here to get the free Social Journalism Study now! Here are five of the report’s findings on social media’s role in journalism: 1.