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Print newspapers still drive best ad engagement in Canada

Agility PR Solutions

Do newspapers still have ad power? They sure do in the Great White North, according to a new study from News Media Canada, which found that printed newspaper ads engage Canadians more than any other medium, print or digital.

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How the Canadian Newspaper Industry Can Adapt to Changes

Business Wire

In March 2017, Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper company, announced 54 layoffs at the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province newsrooms. Declining advertising dollars, low subscription numbers, and the emergence and disruption of digital have all contributed to the financial hardships affecting many Canadian news publications.

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Print news media is dying

Stephen Waddington

Print news media under threat is not an exclusive. Jessica Pardoe When did you last read a newspaper? In fact, it’s becoming unusual to pick up a newspaper. Print new media challenge Ad-funded newspapers such as The Evening Standard and The Metro are the exception, not the rule. But you can’t fight digitisation.

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How Does a Business Press Release Differ From Advertising?

PR Fuel

Every enterprise needs to create a brand around which business advertisements will revolve. Another popular way of marketing your brand is through advertising. To use both business press releases and advertisements effectively, you need to understand how the two differ. What Is Advertising? billion in 2021.

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Newspapers remain a political campaigning tool: question everything you read

Stephen Waddington

Newspapers are about as useful as campaign leaflets as a form of electoral scrutiny. The reach of the print media is much diminished since the 1990s. Media oligarchy The right-wing newspapers in the UK are controlled by a small number of people. It's The Sun Wot Won It" appeared on the front page of The Sun on 11 April 1992.

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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. Reach, one of the largest newspaper publishers, announced a pay cut of 20% for directors, senior management and editorial staff, and 10% for all other staff.

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Why Tech Is Important To PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR firms have withstood the rise of many possible “PR killers” including email marketing, digital advertising, and social media, often integrating or using those disciplines to grow their business or even make earned media more effective. For the most part, the PR industry’s slow approach to technology adoption has worked fairly well.