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How an underground high school newspaper led to a 10+ year blog

Communications Conversations

Last Saturday, there was a wonderful article in the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about groups of kids who had started neighborhood newspapers during the pandemic. I can’t tell you how much I loved that article–for a couple reasons. And second, school newspapers are in my blood. The printing.

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Newspaper Licensing Agency beaten to a pulp by PRCA and Meltwater

Stuart Bruce

Today the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled in favour of the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) and Meltwater in their five-year battle with the UK’s Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA). This is a victory for common sense and the CJEU ruling is another great example of why the UK is better off in Europe than out.

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How to pitch an Op-Ed to The New York Times

Remote PR Jobs

An Op-Ed is an essay that runs on the opposite side of the editorial page in a newspaper. If those editors find something interesting, they send it to an internal group that is responsible for editing the pieces on the pages in all the editions. Here’s how to go about submitting for the New York media staple.

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In Praise of Trade PR For B2B Companies

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Over the past couple of years, many large publications have stopped accepting bylined articles and thought leadership pieces from outside companies. Of course, it’s still possible to be published on the opinion page of a prestigious national newspaper, but the topic must have broad national or international relevance.

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Writing For Journalism And Writing For PR: How They Differ

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Whether it was through classes, writing for the school newspaper , or my personal blogs, my writing involved reporting facts, interviewing subjects, and taking down their quotes. One way to do that is to look at press releases and compare them to news articles that follow the releases to get a sense of the difference. .

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What’s Going On With Media – And How Does It Impact Your Public Relations Strategy?

Stern + Associates

But social platforms are totally different from newspapers or websites: they require small, bite-sized presentations of news, increasingly in video rather than text form (though they will usually link text-based articles on the media outlet’s website). adults get their daily news : social media.

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Meet the Media: Seth Clevenger, Managing Editor for Features at Transport Topics

Bianchi Biz Blog

I’m Seth Clevenger, managing editor for features at Transport Topics , a weekly newspaper and multimedia outlet dedicated to covering trucking and the freight transportation industry. Later that year I moved to Smyrna, Delaware, for my first full-time journalism job at a local newspaper that was part of a small family-owned chain at the time.