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How Communicators Can Help Their Clients Navigate Misinformation and Biased News

PRSay

The traditional notion of “bad press” is negative coverage in a reputable journalism outlet that exposes legitimate complaints about a company — for example, coverage of a shareholder lawsuit, or a scandal about workplace conditions in a local or national newspaper. PR teams have been handling these kinds of events for years.

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Online Newsrooms: the Secret Sauce for Media Relations

The Proactive Report

newspaper industry into a tailspin and the pressures facing America’s newsrooms have intensified to nothing less than a reorganization of the industry itself, one that impacts the experiences of even those news consumers unaware of the tectonic shifts taking place.” ” Pew Stateo f the Media 2016.

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What You Can Learn in 2017 from our Favorite MaccaPR Posts of 2016

MaccaPR

Now that 2016 – our Minneapolis PR agency's 20th Anniversary Year – has rocketed to a close, join us for a tour of the most popular MaccaPR blog posts of the past 12 months. Let's dive back into your favorite posts from 2016 one last time! the Top MaccaPR Posts of 2016. We ask you to please enter at your own risk.

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How the Associated Press Fights Fake News on Facebook…and Everywhere Else

Cision

How is the average news consumer supposed to separate fact from fiction? Carvin is the point person in a partnership that began in December 2016 between the AP and Facebook that illustrates some of the efforts the AP is undertaking to scrub misinformation from readers’ views. Information is everywhere.

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MediaPulse | A Weekly Media Round-Up

Cision

Scott Walker announces his 2016 presidential bid ( Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ); the 2015 Emmy Nominations have been revealed ( Entertainment Weekly ); Caitlin Jenner gives a touching and inspiring acceptance speech at the ESPY Awards ( BuzzFeed ); and the New Horizons spacecraft got up close and personal with Pluto ( Fishbowl NY ).

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How to Generate Coverage From Conferences

Cision

While media is fast-paced and social has sped up the way we consume news, sometimes it’s best to take a step back and look at the larger picture. Cision’s 2016 State of the Media Report, to be released Tuesday, found that the majority of journalists (93 percent) prefer to be contacted via email. Want to take it one step further?

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How Public Relations Can Fight Fake News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Fake content has been around as long as the internet, but as a culture, we didn’t take it so seriously until after the 2016 election. PR pros do this anyway, of course, but for any of us, now is not the time to let our newspaper subscription lapse, or to cut back on your digital content subscriptions. Support legitimate media.

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