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Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffett Sees Newspapers Dying

Remote PR Jobs

Originally seen on Bloomberg Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is pessimistic on the newspaper industry at a time when public relations specialists are increasingly outnumbering journalists. public relations specialists for every news reporter Source: U.S. public relations specialists for every news reporter Source: U.S.

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Social Media Overtakes Print Newspapers as News Source

PRSay

For the first time, social media has surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans, Pew Research Center finds. adults said they often get news from social media, compared to 16 percent from print newspapers. Television remains the most popular way Americans receive news, though its use has fallen since 2016.

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Pitching Kit: Cision’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide PR Kit

Cision

You need to earn a spot in a trusted third-party publication. Major lifestyle magazines and newspapers publish holiday gift guides to make it easy for shoppers to find the perfect gift. ” Using Cision’s media database , we researched the holiday gift guide schedules of some of the biggest lifestyle magazines and newspapers.

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Pew Study Finds Americans Still Prefer Watching to Reading the News

PRSay

A new survey from Pew Research Center revealed that Americans prefer to watch the news rather than read it by a ratio of 47 to 34 percent, marking only a minimal change from 2016’s study, which tallied 46 percent of respondents as news-watchers to 35 percent as news-readers. Since 2016, audio has seen an increase in popularity.

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PRSA’s Kansas City Chapter Starts Scholarship Fund to Carry On Legacy of Trailblazer, Dr. Inez Y. Kaiser

PRSay

Her columns “Hints for Homemakers” and “Fashion and Otherwise” were published in Black newspapers across the country, and she was a guest contributor for The Kansas City Star ’s opinion column “As I See It.”. Encouraged by a newspaper editor, she decided to pursue a career in public relations. She died in 2016 at age 98.

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Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

Why is the public relations industry not representative of the organisations or the public that it serves? Why is public relations conflated with media relations? Ever since Ivy Lee sent the first press release on 28 October 1906 public relations have been associated with media relations. Another history lesson.

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The #PRStudChat Community Discusses PR, Twitter & Politics on Tuesday, October 11th

Deirdre Breakenridge

With the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign being coined “The Twitter Election” there is no question that Twitter is topical. On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at 8:30 p.m. There is a lot to learn (and will be learned) from this mainstream news channel.

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