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Talking About the Great Outdoors: Q&A With Acclaimed Storyteller Baratunde Thurston

PRSay

Thurston is an Emmy-nominated storyteller and producer, recognized for his work at the intersection of race, tech, democracy and climate. The closest comps are my 2019 TED Talk and my 2012 memoir, “ How to Be Black.” There are infinite ways to talk about our relationship with the outdoors,” Thurston said in an interview with PRsay.

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What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living

Sword and the Script

For example, the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey posed this question to 223 PR and communications pros…and we received a wide variety of answers from respondents. 11) “I get my clients, who are experts in their fields, into newspapers, magazines, online publications and on TV and radio.”. 63) “I am a storyteller.”.

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Letter from Newcastle via New York: content resonance and digital exclusion

Stephen Waddington

Here’s more on those, an event on data-led storytelling that we’re running at Metia next month and other stories that have caught my attention. ?? More than a third (35%) of us avoid the new according to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital.

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Technology Makes Us Lazy Communicators

Waxing UnLyrical

Insert meme of men on a train looking at newspapers here.) Storyteller. In 2019, smartphones are predicted to overtake TV as the device that demands most of our attention each day. Chances are if you’re reading this you are a professional communicator of some kind. Soothsayer.

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Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023

Sword and the Script

a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. The organizations who take their ESG, DEI, and social impact strategies seriously will be the ones who are unafraid to show their progress, no matter how big or small it may be, with a combination of visual and written storytelling.

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45 Marketing and PR Statistics that Recap the Year We Had in 2020

Sword and the Script

Event dropped from a roughly $16 billion market in 2019 to about $6 billion in 2020, according to a study reviewed by Marketing Charts. Data, storytelling and blogging of grow in importance. Data & analytics (76%), storytelling (74%) and content marketing, like blogging (74%) were increasingly important to PR pros in 2020.

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12 of the Best Marketing Podcasts that Will Up Your Game in 2020

PR 20/20

Overview: The MAICON Speaker Series was recorded live at MAICON 2019. Dave Gerhardt ( @davegerhardt ) was Drift’s VP of marketing until late 2019. Though the final episode was published in May of 2019, whenever I have the chance to talk about podcasts, this evergreen all-star demands a mention. Where to start: 8/26/2019 You 2.0: