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Who Were The PR Winners And Losers of 2017?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

What’s more, media credibility has actually increased over 2016. Ditto the national newspapers; both The Washington Post and The New York Times broke subscription records. New CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was quickly beset with a fresh crisis, though, when news came out that Uber covered up a 2016 hack.

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How Public Relations Can Fight Fake News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

By attacking the advertising model that supports sites like World News Daily Report and NewsBuzzDaily, they might help slow the viral spread of false, defamatory, and even dangerous stories. 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.

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6 Awesome Examples of How To Leverage Corporate History in Brand Storytelling

MaccaPR

As a newer service offering, TimesMachine provides The New York Times subscribers with a fully searchable archive of past newspapers, such as the July 20, 1969, article, " The Day Before The Moon Landing." Stay tuned in 2016! Speak to your community resources, such as historical societies, libraries and newspapers.

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Philanthropist Craig Newmark on Ethical Communication

PRSay

In 2016, he founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies, which supports organizations that advocate for trustworthy journalism, voter protection, women in technology, and military veterans and their families. I saw that in 2016 the immune system of democracy didn’t work so well.

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The Dynamic Web: Pop-ups, Persistence and SERP [UML]

Sword and the Script

Viral Marketing: The Hope, Hype and Helplessness. The top spot in an organic search is many ways what page 1 above the fold in a printed version of a newspaper used to be many years ago. Even knowing pop-ups work, I’ve been taken aback by just how many new subscriptions I’ve gained merely by providing a subtle nudge.

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

Masters in Communications

Way before newspapers, the Romans and Greeks used scrolls, Egyptians used papyrus, and ancient China used a form of paper to distribute information, even if that information was limited to an inner circle of elites or an educated few in those cases. China is credited with starting the world's first newspaper.

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