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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

In traditional journalism, diligent fact-checking is a given. This type of work is not journalism, strictly speaking. Do I need to parse the fine print of a scientific study every time I cite a statistic? Finally, if the information comes from social media, make sure it’s true before you regurgitate it in print or online.

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These were the top publishers of June 2020 on Facebook

NewsWhip

This analysis includes English-language content from publishers, ranked by Facebook likes, shares, and comments to their web content, ranked by domain. The Atlantic’s printing of the statement from Jim Mattis criticizing Trump’s reaction to the protests was the only one in the top five not from NBC, garnering 6.7 million engagements.

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Meet BBC’s ‘Mr Safe’: New political editor Chris Mason’s pals joke he’s been like a 50-year-old since he was a student, he once considered being a bus driver and still subscribes to his local Yorkshire paper

Mark My Words

The news popped out while I was in a pub in Halifax, with no signal,’ Mason told his Twitter followers just earlier today, 24 hours after the big news broke that he would be taking on the biggest brief in British political journalism. . The new job is an immense privilege & responsibility and I’ll give it everything’ .

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

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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Wendy Glavin and CommPRO Report on the Livestream: Breaking Down the State of the Media in 2017

Cision

Scale for scale’s sake creates undifferentiated viral clones, where you die by the algorithms. You’re seeing this at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and The Daily Beast. Chris Lynch: Is print media dead? There is a new creativity in brand journalism but the feel is brand advertising. Brian Braiker: No.

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How media engagement differs on Instagram, Facebook, and the web

NewsWhip

The media outlets we’re going to look at are all traditionally famous print ones, as opposed to cable news which produces native videos on social media with a very different strategy in mind. For now, let’s dive into the three we’re looking at today, which are the New York Times, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. .

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