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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Cision moves to eliminate the HARO brand Cision is pressing forward with the elimination of the Help a Reporter Out (HARO) brand. The founding HARO was founded by Peter Shankman in 2008 as a Facebook group for journalists in need of sources. Reporters were getting more emails than ever – and traced many of them back to Vocus.

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Depressed and depressing: the state of UK news media

Stephen Waddington

There’s not much good news for UK media in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. Media coverage of Brexit is impacting the mood of the nation according to Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. You can download a copy of the report by following this link. The UK is suffering from news fatigue.

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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. Advertisers have pulled campaigns, either because businesses have themselves been impacted by the crisis, or they simply didn’t want their brand appearing alongside COVID-19 news.

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What PR Success Looks Like In A Data-Driven World

PR Insiders

Sometimes the confusion lies around these same people’s very good understanding of the value of direct-response advertising, which is designed to get instant results by encouraging people to take some sort of action right now. The ROI of publicity isn’t as instant or as cut-and-dried as advertising. Case closed. Or vice versa?

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How Public Relations Can Fight Fake News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Like many in PR, advertising, and journalism, I was relieved when Google and Facebook announced they would ban “fake news” sites from using use their ad services. The move still won’t stop the patently fake stories in my Facebook stream, but it’s a start. But the slope can be a slippery one.

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PR Glossary: 30 Key Terms and Insights Every Professional Should Know

Newsfile

Social media monitoring involves tracking brand mentions, conversations, and sentiment across social platforms (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc.). PR professionals balance these media types to maximize brand exposure and credibility: Paid Media : Content promoted through advertising (e.g., What is ESG Reporting? news articles).

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Lin Pophal on the Evolving Role and Field of PR

Flack's Revenge

When I was director of corporate communications at a local healthcare organization, I would regularly receive a number of resumes from reporters whenever PR jobs opened up. ” Run an ad in a newspaper and it needs to be labeled as an ad. Yet they’re really simply PR pieces.

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