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2016 – A Year in Traditional Media

Shift Communications

The Verge , Thomas Ricker (UVM: 16,157,798): Blink wireless security cameras run for two years on a pair of AA batteries. cta] The post 2016 – A Year in Traditional Media appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Cassandra Faro, Account Executive. Client: Blink. Annie Perkins.

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Avoid These “Bad-PR” Awards

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Winners have included Trump, (too easy, but a natural) as well as Martin Shkreli, Lindsay Lohan and businesses like KFC for its 2016 introduction of Extra Crispy Sunscreen , an SPF 30 sunblock with a fried-chicken scent. Some of this year’s “winners” include a false report claiming NASA had changed the astrological signs!

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

That year, Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi invented the "wireless telegraph" (16). For example, it also forms the basis of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) which both transmit data wirelessly. In 2016, the Cambridge Analytica Scandal at Facebook brought all these issues to a head.

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