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ICON 2020 Preview: Lata Nott on Communicators, First Amendment Freedoms and ‘Expensive Attention’

PRSay

What does this disruption look like to you in 2020? In the past], if you wanted to disseminate your opinions, you needed a printing press or access to someone who had one. At the Freedom Forum, I get contacted by people who say, “Facebook has shut down my account.” Speech used to be expensive. [In

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

He published a paper called PR 2020 on behalf of the CIPR in 2011 that examined the future of PR. The PR 2020 project was based on interviews with PR practitioners throughout the UK and the outlook for the forthcoming decade. They are all issues that will occupy us all in 2020. Here are the headlines. Issues in practice 1.

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These were the top technology publishers in 2020

NewsWhip

We looked at the top technology publishers for the last year, ranking them by overall Facebook engagement. . There were several other significant pieces for The Verge, however, chief among them about a Facebook bug that was temporarily marking legitimate articles about the coronavirus as spam in the first days of the pandemic.

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These were the top technology publishers in 2020

NewsWhip

We looked at the top technology publishers for the last year, ranking them by overall Facebook engagement. . There were several other significant pieces for The Verge, however, chief among them about a Facebook bug that was temporarily marking legitimate articles about the coronavirus as spam in the first days of the pandemic.

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Newsprint in pain as COVID-19 bites, so what’s next?

Stephen Waddington

A perfect storm of distribution and falling advertising revenue is a blow to the newsprint business after two decades of battling the shift from print to digital. In the first month of the crisis Facebook reported an increase of 50% in usage of its services. Print accounts for 80% of UK newspaper revenues and digital 20%.

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Faces & Markets of PRGN: Tokyo, Japan – Premier Destination for Business

Bianchi Biz Blog

Understanding Japan’s unique media landscape, where traditional platforms like print and TV coexist with digital trends, is pivotal. However, there has been a decline in this number by about 70% in 2020. The media landscape in Japan is characterized by a rich diversity of specialized outlets, both in print and online formats.

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PR Software Pricing Estimates [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

The company was acquired by the SEO tool SEMrush in late 2020. The company was publicly traded on the Australian Stock exchange and did $120 million in sales in 2020. The tool appears to work for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Google. SocialChorus was acquired by Sumeru in July of 2020. Q4 aims to support ESG.