Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I’ve known Lin Pophal for years through her work as a writer for eContent , HR Executive , and others; have pitched her client stories and my own thought leadership topics (I’m in her eContent story on content curation tools ). Is this a sign of the future of PR (and journalism)? I definitely think that it is.

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Most PR practitioners quickly learn that the wall protecting editorial integrity from the influence of paid advertising can be, like the Pirate Code , “more of a guideline than an actual rule.” For better or worse, at a great number of well-known and respected media sources, advertisers are often given preference in coverage.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Employers are more believable than government, media reporters with named sources, major corporations, media reports with anonymous sources, advertising and “my social media.”. It’s true interpersonal and it’s true in leadership and group dynamics. Thought leadership requires actual thought and leadership.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

This has resulted in it receiving a backseat to paid media in most corporate budgets. As the Wall Street Journal reported , many of these wasteful ads ended up on sites with fake web traffic and views from bots that pumped up conversion metrics. The result was an all-boats-rise in the advertising market. Far from it.

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PRSay

MAY 3, 2019

With media organizations consolidating across the country and former journalists finding themselves in a PR or corporate communications position, it’s important not to forget the difference between these two roles. And in an ideal world, journalism and public relations have a balanced relationship benefitting both parties.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Change your results,” said business strategist and leadership development expert AmyK Hutchens. The author and think tank facilitator spoke on “Igniting Brilliance in Your Leadership” as part of Monday morning’s General Session at the PRSA 2017 International Conference in Boston. “We How might we judge great leadership?

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Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

She began her career as an aspiring newspaper reporter, securing an internship at the Atlanta Journal Constitution before becoming a daily reporter in Greenville, South Carolina, not far from her hometown. Pivoting from journalism to PR. I knew that journalism was changing,” she said. “I Starting as a solopreneur.

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wiredPRworks

AUGUST 2, 2016

Thanks to Russ Klein, AMA CEO , for his take on the survey’s positive outlook, leadership opportunities– and even a few thoughts on what marketers can learn from Pokémon [hint: it’s not about finding rare monsters]. Can you say more about how corporations and associations can realize this vision? Dealing with an Omni-Channel World.

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Ishmael's Corner

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I don’t think Rem Rieder, editor of the American Journalism Review, is going to be happy. This is a big deal because the Techmeme algorithm essentially offers a surrogate for thought leadership in the tech sector. They’re probably right, although I don’t think owned media has reduced the White House’s advertising budget.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Growth of independent journalism. “We I recently saw new research showing that brand purpose is even more important to B2B buyers than to B2C customers, which is surprising but probably makes sense given the longer selling cycle and relationship to corporate reputation. Scott Kaminski , Senior Marketing Manager, Häfele America Co. .

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Cision

JUNE 15, 2017

Hispanic public relations professionals, I’m excited to work with this year’s diverse volunteer board representing corporate, agency, consultants, and media entities, to help cultivate our future leaders and propel our industry. What does this new role entail, what are you most excited for with it, and what do you hope to accomplish? .

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Business Wire

JANUARY 19, 2017

With over 50 years of industry leadership, Business Wire has established irrefutable trust from within the news market and has proven its thorough understanding of the needs of the digital age by creating a technologically sophisticated, patented distribution network.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. This covered the glass ceiling, pay gap, lack of mentorship opportunities and stereotyped expectations of leadership style, where leadership is usually seen as a masculine trait. has been exploring in her work on women in journalism.

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Doctor Spin

MAY 30, 2023

Barnum (1810–1891) was a savvy publicity showman, one who impacted particular aspects of public relations and advertising, primarily event planning, event promotion and true publicity/media coverage. He regularly used innovative and creative advertising techniques to capture the public’s attention. Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Tormala, Z.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This has resulted in it receiving a backseat to paid media in most corporate budgets. ” But in the run up to this year’s Advertising Week conference in New York, it seems CMO patience has started to wane. The result was an all-boats-rise in the advertising market. Sometimes, it feels like paid media budgets are invincible.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 6, 2018

The same applies to a corporation looking to add PR help in-house, or alternatively, doing a cost-benefit analysis of bringing on outside help from an agency. Median salaries across corporate, agency and non-profit positions break down as flows: Corporate: $132,000. 2) Media PR salary by organization. Agency $88,000.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I study organizational persuasion for a living and I knew this was not bona fide journalism. Some clever guy with a political bent bought a domain and polished up a site to look like journalism. There is something wrong with perpetuating erroneous information and dressing it up to look like journalism.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

e) Championing a customer-centric corporate culture. On one hand, competition is fierce (56%), people are increasingly intolerant of advertising (46%) and “information overload” is a genuine problem (44%). Read more: Top of Mind Among Senior Marketers: Cliff Notes to 3 Significant Surveys of CMOs.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 15, 2015

Valuing quality journalism in corporate publishing. If it is going to be compelling, there needs to be a population of quality content creators like journalists and photographers and designers,” says Paul Edwards as he explores journalism in corporate publishing. ” Any of these strike a chord?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Our new owners immediately began to eliminate redundancies, as they say in corporate M&A. Whatever reservations or prejudices corporations seem to have about blogs and blogging, that is melting. Last year an advertising spot during the Super Bowl cost $5 million. A half year later my employer was acquired.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

Focused on the world of financial and corporate communications, club membership and participation in its SOJC stock index has increased 50% under his leadership. Bobby is poised for a career in corporate communications. For all of these reasons, she is among our top graduating PR students this year. Tori Olker, @toriiio.

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Yeah, that was the first form which then evolved into me doing journalism. When I got my degree in foreign trade, my dad told me that I was not built for a salesman and I should focus on journalism and writing, which I love. Maxim: I decided to do advertising. Maxim: Rather, I think leadership should be horizontal.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 24, 2018

See these related posts: The PR Opportunity for Brands as Publishers Tinker with Journalism. A few months back a relatively mature startup doing some cool things in IoT and corporate real estate approached me for a proposal. You need digital advertising for PPC and social ads. This is How the Sorry State of Media Relations Ends.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. My hypothesis is that PR agencies – and its siblings in marketing and advertising – are entering the early stages of a similar trend. 1) Storytelling, analytics and thought leadership are the top PR tactics and trends. content marketing (64%).

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We wrote a company fact sheet with investor information, milestones, and leadership credentials, which was distributed to 20 journalists who we knew would find the content appealing. It’s pretty standard to have your CEO share funding news via a thought leadership article either on your company’s blog, LinkedIn Pulse, or Medium.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

But I was such a big fan of journalism, so I became a correspondent, travelled all over the world and met a lot of people. One day, I remembered the words of Winston Churchill “You can achieve a lot of things with journalism, but you must know when to quit”. The corporations do not expect you to spend months learning.

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PR Conversations

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Analysis based on interviews with 40 CEOS highlights that “CEOs frequently return to the idea that communication directors urgently needed to enhance their core leadership skills. We can see this with resistance to abandon the flawed advertising-equivalent measuring of media coverage, for instance.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This will contribute to even more noise, and it will make high-quality corporate content both more appreciated and harder to find.”. There is a new corporate scenario that directly impacts all audiences and communication channels. Rather, AI will be used to create a lot of filler and SEO bait. Luciana Lima , Head of PR, Reserve Parks.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

One thing that separates PR, and specifically media relations, from marketing and advertising is third-party validation: there’s nothing you can say about yourself that’s as powerful as someone else saying it about you. Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. Million and Eyes the U.S. Are you kidding?

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Ishmael's Corner

APRIL 14, 2015

This could be fresh fodder for our storytelling workshops, explaining to executives that corporate speak is actually bad for their health. Will Advertising Disappear? So we’re switching toward what we call thought leadership, which is we sell sponsorship of conferences, with white papers, with online advertising as well.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

High demand for experienced communicators “Corporate communications professionals will continue to advance into top organizational leadership roles as their unrivaled combination of business strategy and stakeholder insight continues to become more essential. Return of increased PR budgets.” Finally, 2024 also brings another U.S.

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Maxim Behar

JANUARY 31, 2024

in a small kitchen, transforming it into a machine for innovative projects and leadership in the Public Relations industry globally. Having successfully completed the Harvard Kennedy School executive program on Leadership in 2019, Mr. Behar has steered the company to numerous awards and significant milestones.

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Maxim Behar

JANUARY 24, 2022

For a couple of years, we have been observing a very dynamic and fast merging of the three main elements of the public communications business – advertising, public relations, and digital. It is so obvious that they will unify and work as a new business soon but for now, there is a constant dispute for leadership.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The company surveyed 500 marketers in Europe and the US and found many admit to struggling to marry “digital advertising and powerful creative work.”. And then noted the statistics: “Nearly 70 percent of marketers surveyed believe that ‘digital growth in advertising has come at the expense of the quality of creative.’

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 15, 2019

Typically, it involves a representative from an advertising agency ranting about the wrongdoings of the industry. There several studies on it like this one from Forrester that the Wall Street Journal reported. This is an advantage to working with a boutique agency – on a small team clients always have access to the leadership.

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NewsWhip

APRIL 14, 2021

You’ve got a master’s in Journalism, a PhD in Communications with an emphasis on both Data Analysis and concentration in Risk. Not only does it appear from the metrics that we were seeing that our leadership’s voice is becoming more and more relevant, at the same time, I think that that increases our responsibility.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 22, 2018

Advertising was extremely expensive. Corporate email systems filter out most externally originated messages, commercial or otherwise. PR, marketing, sales and journalism. Each month Off Scripts interviews someone with a fresh perspective on marketing – details on how to get involved are at the bottom of this post.

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