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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. This type of work is not journalism, strictly speaking. When a brand is behind a story, there’s bias involved. Do I need to parse the fine print of a scientific study every time I cite a statistic?

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

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. 2) April 7, 2014: Vocus.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

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. At FH, we dont pay for posts.

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Digital journalism is alive but is digital PR?

Norton's Notes

Today the BBC announced that it is cutting almost 500 jobs but reinvesting in a further 195 posts to back what it calls ‘digital journalism’. So I think we can safely say that digital journalism is where the BBC believes the future of that industry is headed. So the future of journalism is creative clever digital journalism.

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Five Stories About The Media!

Bad Pitch Blog

De-Hyping David "@carr2n" Carr In October 2001 I read something in the New York Times that made me think hype was Apple’s only bet—and maybe the brand new “iPod portable music player,” as the Mac device was then known, might not be as substantial as its over-the-top pre-release made it to be. Both were targets of terrorists (check Wikipedia).

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

Cannes Lions was all about purposeful brands. What we crave is for brands to take responsibility. They are not ideas that begin with the brand story and how it connects with to an audience. Would many not have been better deployed in the dwindling ranks of investigative journalism ? 2016 will be about responsibility.