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Is it a Sin to Advertise Religion?

Mindful Marketing

By contrast, in advertising, politics are usually fair game, but religion has largely remained off-limits, until now. Given my past and present advertising-related roles, people sometimes ask my opinion about ads, and because I teach at a Christian University, my views on marketing that involves religion has some extra appeal.

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The Chicago Sun-Times’s Strategy May Save Newspapers

The Stalwart Blog

Regardless of your political leanings, this strategy of "don't be everything to everyone" could stand as a model for other newspapers to follow. . Yet many outlets hold on to this approach in part because long-standing advertisers still see value in supporting particular pieces of content.

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How Communicators Can Help Their Clients Navigate Misinformation and Biased News

PRSay

The traditional notion of “bad press” is negative coverage in a reputable journalism outlet that exposes legitimate complaints about a company — for example, coverage of a shareholder lawsuit, or a scandal about workplace conditions in a local or national newspaper. PR teams have been handling these kinds of events for years.

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Trends and Best Practices for Media Relations

PRSay

Having the ability to calculate the equivalent advertising value of stories arranged through media relations allows PR pros to prove their worth to organizational decision-makers. When it comes to realizing the value of media relations, Op-Ed columns in newspapers are the gold standard. Photo credit: mclittlestock ].

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Someone, somewhere, sometime…

Maxim Behar

Now, however, what is happening with the Bulgarian media - television and radio channels, and recently even newspapers, is not only absurd, but also shocking. It occurred to someone that by saying that someone drinks Coca-Cola, they advertise it, and therefore it is best to say that "someone" drinks a soft drink.

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Maxim Behar for “24 Chasa": "PR crisis management became routine"

Maxim Behar

The PR expert Maxim Behar shared his opinion for 24 Chasa newspaper about the rapidly changing communications and the application of modern media tools in business. Globally, for years there has been a fairly rapid unification of the three elements of the business of public communications - PR, advertising and digital business.

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Everything is Measurable in PR

Shift Communications

Virtually everything in marketing, advertising, and PR is measurable. For example, if I get a small mention in the local newspaper about SHIFT Communications that doesn’t have attribution, a clickstream, or a call to action, it would take an extensive research project to find out the true impact of that article.