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Depressed and depressing: the state of UK news media

Stephen Waddington

News media in pain Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital. Popular newspaper brands have suffered double digit falls in print circulation with the Daily Star (-18%), Daily Mirror (-13%), and Daily Express (-12%) hardest hit. Facebook and Google account for almost 60% of the online advertising market.

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Earned Media: Is it worth all the trouble?

Bianchi Biz Blog

There are fewer reporters covering the supplier beat, and those that do seem to have less time yet more demands placed upon them; Dwindling advertising spends tends to mean there is a smaller news hole to compete for in your key target media outlets; and.

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Paywalls Beginning To Lose Credibility

Waxing UnLyrical

It has been, and always will be, advertising. BuzzFeed eschewed the paywall model, opting instead for “native advertising,” essentially an article or editorial and advertiser has paid to place on the site. The industry panicked and tried to shoehorn the model it had used since Gutenberg invented the printing press.

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The Race Back to Actual News

David PR Group

More than 15 years ago, I began telling people that the Internet might kill newspapers but that it won’t end journalism. Remember, journalism was created to educate, inform, and persuade people, and our nation’s first journalists were not writing to please advertisers. Do we charge for it?

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. has been exploring in her work on women in journalism. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. The web was the most significant shift in publishing since the invention of the printing press in the 15th Century. It’s a theme that Topi?

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Pubs Converting Contributed Articles to Native Ads is Another Reason to Build Your Own Audience

Sword and the Script

Years ago, contributed articles were a badge of honor since there was a limited number of opportunities in a printed world. It’s no secret publications are looking for a way to make up for the ad sales the industry has lost to the likes of Google and Facebook. Vendors aren’t advertisers, they are “clients.”.

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The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]

Sword and the Script

However, other traditionally print new organizations – notably the Wall Street Journal and USA Today – got into the podcast game far earlier. He points out a range of emerging devices, “like Amazon Echo and Google Home, along with other IoT offerings including smart cars,” are creating opportunities. What sort of opportunities?

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