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The Media Kit: What To Include

Doctor Spin

PR Resource: Journalism vs PR What is a media kit? Historically, when media kits were distributed physically on paper at press conferences and events, it made sense to make the printed media kit brief and to the point. In Wikipedia. In Wikipedia. PR Resource: Journalism vs PR To spin or not to spin. What is an EPK?

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia.

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Five Stories About The Media!

Bad Pitch Blog

To say that Apple is releasing products in a cloud of openness … is not responsible journalism, even for an opinion creator. Most CEO and PR types are fearful that both will get mad and say they hate it in print. Both were targets of terrorists (check Wikipedia). The beta testing of objects is ill-advised these days.

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

It aroused the ire and delight of social media, ripped through the papers and received the inevitable warning from the Advertising Standards Authority, guaranteeing extra story mileage. Would many not have been better deployed in the dwindling ranks of investigative journalism ? A PR success?