Deirdre Breakenridge

JULY 22, 2019

Social media continues to capture time and attention. Here are some of the stats revealing how much people participate in social media; where they spend their time; what they like to do and how often. Social Media Workshop in Princeton, NJ. The social media numbers continue to grow. Can you imagine? workforce by 2020.

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Onclusive

JUNE 2, 2021

An impactful PR campaign can attract positive media attention and influence brand awareness, reputation and sales for your brand for years to come. However, to generate that level of clout, PR campaigns require more than just a press release, media outreach or fundraising event. They must be carefully planned. What do they care about?

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Mika Stambaugh is an Emmy award winning journalist and dynamic entrepreneur known for her creative strategies in executing media and communication campaigns. Our plan is to think outside the box for earned media. AirPR: You started your career in journalism. “Nail the elevator pitch.”. How did that translate to PR?

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Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My friend and colleague, Deirdre Breakenridge, CEO of Pure Performance Communications , has launched an amazing initiative in collaboration with The Social Network Station , a radio show broadcasted out of Las Vegas, Nevada. The initiative is to empower women by giving them a voice and a platform via 50 Internet radio shows, called #50Shows.

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PRSay

MAY 23, 2018

Trade media, on the other hand, is targeted to a specific industry, profession, trade or business. Because trade media editors and journalists are typically subject-matter experts in their respective fields, articles tend to go into deeper detail than those in larger publications. Don’t overlook blogs.

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Cision

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Here’s the top media industry stories we’re following this week: The Big News: Mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon prompts further discussion over gun control ( The Oregonian ); NASA finds water on the red planet, begging the question, is there life on Mars ?

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The Proactive Report

MAY 2, 2015

Pew Research released their 2015 State of the Media report this week. Podcast listening is on the rise , which could breathe new life into audio journalism. Even a large blog like GigaOm was not able to sustain their operation. And the major takeaway is mobile, mobile, mobile. Many news outlets are still struggling financially.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 30, 2019

Like any technology investment, making a decision about which media monitoring or earned media measurement tool is right for your business can be challenging. When you are monitoring important media coverage—whether it’s a PR crisis or an especially impactful brand story—getting results quickly is absolutely critical.

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Prakkypedia

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I’m in the interesting position of being both a PR consultant and – apparently because of this blog, Prakkypedia – part of the media. Several times a week, I receive emailed media releases or media pitches from a wide variety of firms with a wide variety of topics and “stories to sell”. It takes time.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 30, 2019

Uncertainty in the Earned Media and Media Monitoring Landscape: What It Means For You. If you work in public relations or marketing—or in the business world generally—you have likely heard about several major developments in the media monitoring marketplace.

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

For much of the past decade, authors of articles such as this one predicted changes in how content would be created and disseminated given the continued emergence of social and other digital-media platforms. Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism. Look for more PR shops to say they’re “data driven.”.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This just in: media relations is getting tougher. Consider the following: Demand for media attention is high: Most top-tier writers now receive 100, 250 or 500 pitches a week for 5 story spots. Media is outnumbered: PR Pros now outnumber journalists by a factor of 6 to 1. Media relations, as a practice, isn’t going away.

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wiredPRworks

MAY 6, 2020

Get media training before you go live on radio or video. As a former broadcast journalist, Amy leverages her media insider insights to empower the people and organizations she works to gain top tier exposure in outlets ranging from The Today Show, to The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Giveback stories are good.

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wiredPRworks

JANUARY 13, 2022

The show airs on the C-Suite Network and all the popular podcasting platforms including Apple, Spotify, and iHeart Radio. Barbara Rozgonyi leads CoryWest Media, a creative marketing communication consultancy that attracts attention, builds brands, and connects communities. He speaks professionally on the topic of positive influence.

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Journalistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

She dropped me a line to let me know she was happy to see I was blogging again because she thinks my posts are relevant for her students. Write for the school newspaper, sign up to DJ for your college radio station, or join the PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America). We look at your social media accounts.

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 5, 2018

She is nationally known as one of the foremost speakers in the country on all things social media. In the PR business for over 25 years, Bill Stoller helps his clients get their voices heard on social media. Beyond working for clients, he trains Fortune 500 marketers on social media sales and the foundation of digital marketing.

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Barokas

DECEMBER 4, 2018

*This post originally appeared on the WTIA blog (read it here). During the chaos, it can be easy to lose track of time and miss key media opportunities, leaving teams looking back on the season feeling that more could have been done. Pulse Surveys : Consumer polls – when they uncover new or surprising data – can be media gold.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

As part of an effort to get smaller blogs to write about the film, I contacted blog owner, Jamie Bullock, of Project:Women and told her about the film. I suggested she post a story that we would write, to not only help the film – but to help her add valuable content to her blog about women going after their dreams.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 14, 2016

To keep up with today’s media landscape, public relations professionals need to know not only who is going where, but also how to communicate more effectively with those journalists, bloggers, and influencers making moves. Want even more media moves?

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MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

If you're a Vice President of Corporate Communications, Chief Marketing Officer or PR Director in Minnesota, there are only a handful of local business media outlets that you. Paul Business Journal and, increasingly of late, Minnesota Business magazine. Paul Business Journal, and news director for SPNN-TV Neighborhood News.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

That’s where traditional media comes in. We dug into some of the latest research to uncover seven compelling reasons traditional media continues to profoundly influence your target audience. 7 Reasons Traditional Media is Still Relevant in PR 1. Print media is the most trusted source of news in the world at 58% (vs.

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PR Conversations

APRIL 24, 2018

Probably because of my background in journalism (see the next answer), the thing I continue to enjoy the most is writing (for effective communications). For that matter, I don’t know why I felt at a young age the “call” of journalism, as there was no family tradition in this type of career. Why do you work in PR?

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PR Conversations

JULY 3, 2014

I read a review in the Wall Street Journal of what looks to be an interesting book, The Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion , by David Zweig. Nothing personal in it… The radio was a clue. You can’t really think hard about what you are doing and listen to the radio at the same time.

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Mindful Marketing

MAY 22, 2021

.” Slipping commercial messages into media content is nothing new, but digital media have exploded that potential with more and more companies trying to make their ads look like they're something else. ” Subscribe to Mindful Matters blog. ” Think of the approach as camouflage for commercials.

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Prohibition

JULY 14, 2017

Content remains at its roots, exactly that; information, a message – whether its worked up into an old school snappy strapline, or a radio jingle, the content remains. We’re used to consuming media on mass. What has changed is how content is utilised. The audience, the consumer – whether B2B or B2C – is savvy, savvier than ever.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 9, 2017

The kids were fascinated by the snakes, and the snake man didn’t disappoint with a chat that would check blogs in both entertainment and reptilian education. I’ve gotten a couple clients and a former employer into the Wall Street Journal over my career, and that photo in Roll Call is right up there with them in my book.

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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? According to Search Engine Journal, SEO leads have a 14.6 2) Drive Earned Media . percent close rate.

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Buzzstream

APRIL 25, 2024

Unlinked mentions can bring direct traffic to your site, but they’re more like billboards or radio ads. For example, when I was with Siege Media, we could offer it as an ongoing service for some brands, like Shutterfly, because they received 5-10 weekly mentions. For the Result type, choose “News” and “Blogs.”

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 2, 2018

They let me take hold and run with social media, campaigns and the like where I learned early the value of measuring and evaluating #measurePR. A2 My first #PublicRelations job was with a nonprofit in Uganda, before the days of social media. My degree is in mass comm and I went to school for a career in radio. A3: Hard to say.

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Ishmael's Corner

MARCH 24, 2015

Online Radio on the Rise. When was the last time you pitched online radio? Specifically, 44 percent of Americans age 12 and up listen to online radio on a weekly basis. It reminds me of the blogging market as a sphere of influence. Uncategorized radio outreach SEO VentureBeat visual storytelling'

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Thanks to the growth of digital platforms like social media, the news cycle is rotating faster than ever before. Couple that with an endless to-do list of research, writing, media training and more, and it seems nearly impossible to keep up, let alone make sense of it all. New episodes are available every Wednesday.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 5, 2015

PlayStation Social Media Strategist Genny Harrison says that the gaming community hasn’t found Snapchat as useful to build community as other industries have. “In Campaign unique codes would be similar to what you hear on the radio: when you order flowers get a 10% discount when you mention the code jimandanimal.

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

As Cision’s social media manager, I use top 50 and top 100 lists for three purposes: To follow individuals who will help me stay in the loop when new trends and statistics emerge within my industry. Every year, Cision creates a list of the top 50 social media influencers on Twitter. For content generation and syndication.

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NewsWhip

JUNE 10, 2021

And the reality and what we always train our internal teams on is to understand, and I’m sure this resonates for a lot of your audience, there’s no action we can take these days as companies that can go unnoticed by the media. So we have social media as a big source of information. That’s interesting and very telling.

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Flatiron Communications

APRIL 13, 2021

We the media” started 15+ years ago with CGM/blogging and, to a lesser degree, podcasting and has evolved to the point where established journalists (with decent social followings) are jettisoning prestige jobs at venerable news organizations to go it alone. He explains: “I often lament that I missed the golden era of blogging.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The Business Journal has its long-time 40 Under 40 “competition.” I’m putting him on the list because I have yet to see someone make the media-to-PR transition better than Jeff. Bryan Vincent, director-digital communications/social media, United Health Group. Blois Olson, principal, Fluence Media.

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PR Conversations

AUGUST 18, 2011

For that matter, some practitioners appear confused, limiting PR to media relations and/or publicity. Ira Basen’s 2007 six-part, award-winning CBC Radio Show, Spin Cycles: the spin, the spinners and the spun , proved to be highly influential for me. We fight it. A bit of the back story. Possibly this has been used before.

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