Solo PR Pro

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

He developed a love of sports and print media at a young age, and set off to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in journalism. Figuring he could brand himself as a media and broadcast expert with keen writing skills, he hoped someone would take a chance on him. In fact, he hadn’t even intended on working in PR.

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David PR Group

OCTOBER 17, 2014

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.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We were about thirty enthusiasts, PR, marketing and advertising specialists, mainly from Europe, but obviously there was a need to gather at a high level, because in just three years we were already 250 people from all over the world and the forum created its own life, again in Davos. And there is not much difference.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The addition rounds out the company’s monitoring suite which includes online print and social media monitoring. At the time of this writing, it wasn’t clear if Propel built broadcast monitoring tool itself or partnered with a mature provider to obtain it. It can add extra or unnecessary words to a sentence and obscure meaning.

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NewsWhip

JULY 29, 2020

The New York Times and The Washington Post are the most dominant of these publishers by a considerable distance, which makes sense due to their status as premier print institutions. . An Englishman in New York, he is interested in the intersection of PR, brands, and journalism, and the trends and innovation around that.

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Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

I’ve always been an avid consumer of journalism and loved writing. And on a trade level, it involves working with business, advertising or fashion industry media, whether it’s to announce an initiative or a partnership, or to serve other strategic goals for the brand. Focus on developing your writing skills.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

Think Netflix + The Wall Street Journal (and a bunch of others here ). Meanwhile, print circulation numbers among the nation’s largest newspapers are plummeting. Meanwhile, print circulation numbers among the nation’s largest newspapers are plummeting. I keep wincing after every sentence I write.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

However, other traditionally print new organizations – notably the Wall Street Journal and USA Today – got into the podcast game far earlier. Audio in marketing doesn’t just mean podcasts writes David Kirkpatrick for Marketing Dive – The call for audio content marketing gets louder. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search.

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

In 2015, traditional media companies are expected to continue shifting towards rebranding, new media entrepreneurism, native advertising and the adoption of digital newsrooms. Today, USA Today ranks first in combined print and digital circulation, underlying the importance of this digital transformation for newsrooms around the world.

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 22, 2015

Now we’ve all heard that journalism is dying and brand content is taking over and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day the same principles apply to PR that have always applied – third party credibility and endorsement is crucial and that third party being a media outlet still matters and will continue to matter.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? Annoyed and overwhelmed, consumers are fed up with intrusive advertising and sales tactics.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Email newsletters are a particularly useful tool for financial services companies, especially if you’re writing about personal finance. You can promote newsletter subscriptions with pop-up on your website, advertise on social, and incentivize followers with a referral campaign. Keep topics personal and relatable.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

Freelance journalism is harder today than it was years ago. Yet, Erik’s perspective isn’t only limited to journalism. He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. Like the famous Rolls Royce advertisement: ‘At 60 miles per hour the loudest sound was the ticking of the electric clock.’

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Polaris

DECEMBER 14, 2014

The author recounts how he manipulated bloggers, reporters and media outlets into covering his company’s advertisements as news. Jayme got this book in journalism school, using it extensively throughout her Chicago agency days when she was an “upstart whippersnapper.” You’ll never look at media in the same way.

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Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

So is native advertising (sometimes called brand journalism or, more generally, content marketing) a curse or cure all? Is it good for what ails online advertising? That does not mean that there isn’t the potential for abuse in native advertising. Recall the fine print that Carr mentioned in his piece.

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PR Fuel

JULY 24, 2018

Determine the chronology of your business story before writing it. The language, idioms, and examples you use in your business story will likely vary depending on whether you’re writing for million dollar home buyers or Kindergarten teachers. Simple Advice: Write Like You Speak, Reporters Will Listen. Just write like you speak.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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. Its almost sad. Cheesier [.]

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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.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

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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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 17, 2021

I work out of my home and call my freelance writing business Baxter TechWrite. Today, the majority of articles I write are for Transport Topics , but I have also worked on four different Confidence Reports for NACFE , the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. Hence my desire to write such a piece.

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Maxim Behar

MARCH 6, 2022

Remember what Winston Churchill said a long time ago that you can achieve a lot of things with journalism, but you must know when to quit. So that's how I decided to quit journalism and start my own company. So, I started off with a so-called advertising agency at the very beginning and then turned step by step.

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NewsWhip

APRIL 28, 2021

So we talk about circulation of a magazine, let’s say, so the circulation is how many are printed and put into newsagents. If that age group is still reading your Arabian Business or your Forbes Magazine, then we’ll still continue to write a press release. 14: What happens when influence outshines advertising?

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

You know there’s at least one person saying “Damn Twitter, I can’t write a Direct Message in under 10k characters.” Social is branding, but unlike traditional advertising—it’s more human. Want to learn Ann’s writing rules for PR? Jeff Barrett – @BarrettAll . ” https://t.co/XuswAAsGAo.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Create an advertisement that you are 100% certain most people will find hideously offensive; where possible, be slightly prejudice, sexist, or distort a historical tragedy for capital gain. Since you said “sorry” everyone will just write you off as having made a dumb move – they’ll never suspect this was a premeditated marketing campaign.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 22, 2017

With decades of experience in journalism, PR and content marketing, Jon is now in charge of content for Inc. s clients and advertisers. I was a print journalist for a dozen years, then made the leap into digital in the late 90s. Studio, which produces all content for Inc.’s How have you seen it evolve?

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PRSay

JULY 31, 2019

For a reporter who’s made a career out of investigative journalism, it’s clear that Bob Woodward understands what makes a compelling narrative and how to get the “best obtainable version of the truth.”. Journalism is more cerebral than people believe,” he told PRsay via phone from Washington, D.C. Well, that’s not good.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

Jaffe Juice is an industry thought leader and author of Life after the 30-second spot, Joseph Jaffe’s unshackled, uncensored and uninhibited dialogue on the subjects of new marketing, advertising and creativity. High Income Business Writing. The Brand Advantage Journalism Podcast. 29) John Dennis. Smart Time Online.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Top tip: Using earned media as part of a Paid, Earned, Shared and Owned (PESO) or Search campaign Trust in earned media may be dented but it remains higher than other forms of media, notably paid such as advertising or promotional editorial. At the same time, the ability to print fast and cheaply bought about a concurrent revolution.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These companies have a stranglehold on advertising and have effectively become a tax on small and medium-sized business. It’s also an issue of writing style. In To Be Clear: A Style Guide for Business Writing author Philip Collins says business writing has become dreary, boring, and incomprehensible, with jargon, clichés, and nonsense.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. The printing press emerged around 600 years ago, but printed media technically existed for thousands of years.

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