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Information Asymmetry: The Informed Minority Advantage

Doctor Spin

In Wikipedia. In Wikipedia. In Wikipedia. In Wikipedia. In Wikipedia. 1 Mafia (party game). 2024, January 13). link] In the spring of 1987, the Soviet Union was a world of its own, and Moscow was its heart. 2 Andrew Plotkin. 2022, October 10). link] Werewolf is a game based on information asymmetry. 6 Among Us.

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Who Is Fighting Fake News? [article]

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

has radically changed journalism and public relations , two industries that rely on the free exchange of information and ideas. It’s their way of supporting journalism into the future, which is a good thing. But one highly undesirable outcome is “fake news.” The platform will label government-funded videos as such.

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It’s the End of the Truth as we Know it – is PR fine?

Flack's Revenge

It’s like we went to sleep in late 2016 and woke up with a post-election New Years, fake news, post-truth hangover. With the Internet being driven to every corner of the globe — and one Wikipedia for all — at last we would have a universally agreed upon baseline for Truth.

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For whom the bell tolls

Stephen Waddington

Lord Bell left the agency in August 2016. In 2011, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism covertly recorded some of the firm’s executives boasting of its UK government connections to journalists posing as agents for the government of Uzbekistan.

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

2016 will be about responsibility. Would many not have been better deployed in the dwindling ranks of investigative journalism ? The Kids Company investigation is interesting in so far as it demonstrates the changing mechanics of investigative journalism. Each year journalism becomes ever more dependent on the press release.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. Terms were not disclosed but the Wall Street Journal reported a price tag of about $240 million. Sources: Crunchbase , Wall Street Journal , PRWeek , GlobeNewsWire ). 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.