Communications Conversations

MAY 21, 2020

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. People want to learn more about their communities! And second, school newspapers are in my blood. With the Geekly, it helped build our newspaper.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 22, 2019

I grew up reading newspapers. I say hopefully because, as we all know, the newspaper industry is in trouble. The challenges of running and maintaining a modern-day newspaper have been discussed at length the last few years. Competing with social media. And that, my friends, is not a way to sell newspapers.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 16, 2020

With voting rules varying from state to state, communicators can help Americans understand the logistics of receiving and casting their ballots, according to representatives of voting-rights organizations who participated in an Oct. 6 webinar sponsored by PRSA’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

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PRSay

JULY 1, 2022

Back then, when we first published the “Public Relations Handbook,” reaching out to the media was relatively straightforward for PR professionals. There were newspapers, magazines, wire services, trade publications, TV and radio. Daily newspaper circulation in the United States has fallen from its height of 61.8

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Medianet Australia

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the past ten years we’ve seen transformational shifts in the way society communicates with one another. Just looking at the digital media landscape alone, newspapers have been almost cannibalised, independent news has died and come back to life multiple times, digital media is key and….

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

But outside the part of the media landscape, you are personally familiar with, the sheer volume of news and “news-like” publishers can be overwhelming. These types of media content present both problems and opportunities for your clients. Understanding earned but unwanted media. Funding fake or extreme “news”.

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Flack's Revenge

JUNE 2, 2021

Instead of facing the media – and submitting to threats and fines – Naomi Osaka withdrew, citing depression, anxiety and fear of public speaking. Do the media have an inalienable right to put athletes up against the wall at the pleasure of sports fans? Like a bad movie, no one comes away looking good.

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Stuart Bruce

JUNE 5, 2014

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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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The communication expert Maxim Behar was among the five professionals invited by the Bulgarian newspaper 24 Daily to share their views and describe how a political product is created and preserved. First, everyone already has at least one media in their hands and can manage it and send messages to voters or supporters.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this first blog post in the series, Judy Kuramata of Integrate Communications describes the business and communications environment in Tokyo, Japan and offers advice on navigating her home market. Effectively navigating Japan’s communications and PR landscape demands a nuanced approach.

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HMA Public Relations

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Participating in media interviews during a crisis situation allows individuals to tell their side of the story and let the public make up their own minds.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 23, 2022

“Depends on the media outlet.” Some [media outlets] are fair; some are not.”. More communications pros say their organization trusts the media than do not. The rest is split among fence sitters and those that say their organizations do not trust the media. Depends on the media source. wrote one respondent.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 19, 2020

Most PR professionals seem to agree that media relations just gets harder every year. In 2018, 51% of respondents said media relations is getting harder, according to the annual JOTW Communications Survey, that I’ve partnered with Ned Lundquist and Ned’s Job of the Week newsletter to field. Hope to see you there!

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Jennifer Ramsay is the editor-at-large at Endeavor Business Media, where she curates the Market Moves newsletters, a series of cross-industry publications pulled together from various Endeavor Business Media outlets covering electric vehicles, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure and cybersecurity. It was even heated!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 10, 2021

It’s also important to determine whether a story has its best chance of being published as a local media item, or if it warrants a full national media outreach. For example, survey results or breaking news at a national company will be pitched to national media, whereas region-specific news will be offered to local reporters.

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Stern + Associates

JANUARY 29, 2024

It seems like the story of “traditional media is dying” has been a meme ever since the beginning of the internet. Every time one would think media outlets can’t cut more staff they find a new bottom: 2023 saw massive layoffs which have continued into 2024. adults get their daily news : social media.

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Agility PR Solutions

JUNE 3, 2020

Digital PR is an inseparable part of communicating in the digital age. Digital PR goes beyond newspaper and TV journalists. The post 3 digital PR tips to drive visibility on all media platforms appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. It focuses on connecting with bloggers, […].

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Is media relations dead? In fact, a recent article in the BusinessWire Blog called Media Outlet Availability on PR Efforts , by Christopher S. Penn, Chief Data Scientist with TrustInsights.ai, cites some revealing statistics about the shrinking number of media outlets and the challenge for PR and media relations.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 10, 2023

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. Yes, social media changed PR. Just consider the ways technology has already benefited PR.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

All PR teams want to earn coverage in top-tier media outlets. At the same time, every PR plan should include another type of media – relevant trade publications. What’s more, it can be amplified through social platforms like LinkedIn, in prospect newsletters, sales presentations, and customer communications. .

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By choosing the right media outlets, your announcement can become a key player in shaping market dynamics and consumer behavior. AP stories are picked up by newspapers, websites and broadcasters worldwide. This platform extends your global press release reach to key decision-makers, media outlets and influencers. Finance (Yahoo!

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Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 13, 2018

They read the newspaper. They trust and admire the media. The other generation gets news from all over–friends, social media, online. They rarely (if ever) watch the news or read a newspaper. They rarely (if ever) watch the news or read a newspaper. And, that can be a challenge for communicators.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

AUGUST 27, 2018

ET for an in-depth discussion on the mysteries of media pitching. You heard us: Media pitching. Content may be king, but if the PESO model has taught us anything, it’s that we need to integrate a number of distribution tactics into the communications mix in order to be consistently successful. PRStudChat. PRStudChat. PRStudChat.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

No, long-term success in our industry, whether it’s comms, marketing or social media, starts with writing. I started an underground newspaper in high school. I wrote for my college newspaper. ” One of the things I was frustrated with as a corporate communicator earlier in my career was the way people wrote.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Greentarget, the strategic communications firm where I work as director of media relations, recently surveyed 100 journalism students and new professionals in the field. For communicators, here are some takeaways from our report “ Next-Gen Journalists: Navigating Misinformation, AI & The Future of Journalism.”

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

29, Matt Charles, APR, presents a webinar titled “ How to Tell Your Organization’s Story to Get Media Coverage.” Whether you serve a large corporation, small nonprofit, major research university or municipal government, at some point your boss has probably said, “We need more media attention. Can you make it happen?”

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

I started my journalism career in South Texas as a newspaper reporter in 1997 and followed that with newspaper jobs in Mississippi, Kentucky and Ohio. I left newspapers in 2013 shortly before T he Plain Dealer in Cleveland started cutting back print publication schedules. Finish this sentence: If I am not reporting, I am ….

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Wadds Inc.

MARCH 21, 2024

For as long as I can remember, the public relations industry has had a fractious relationship with the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) and the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA). The NLA and CLA collect licence fees on behalf of publishers from public relations agencies and in-house corporate communications and public relations teams.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 23, 2019

Media relations interests me because of the relationships I have personally had with public relations professionals. When the time came to start my infographic, I felt it would be fitting to educate PR pro’s about how to make their communications with the media positive.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This question drew me towards signing up for the recent PRSA event An Evening with Women in Media and Communications in San Francisco. As a woman and minority, I feel strongly about topics like diversity and inclusion , and was excited to hear their takes on what it’s like as a woman in the big world of media. Julia Buencamino.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Why Earned Media Value (EMV) And Influencers Over Paid Media? When SMBs are looking for hard returns and metrics that show direct results of their efforts, paid media has been historically difficult to beat. for every $1 spent on earned media coverage. It’s highly trackable. And companies are taking notice.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Media outlets are fragmented and politcized. Today I thought I’d take a look at some of the macro-level trends happening in the media industry and their impact on us, as PR professionals, in the coming years. For PRs, that means supplying more content to our media friends. Newspapers are struggling. Will it last?

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Cision

JUNE 13, 2016

You need to embrace a converged media workflow. Cision’s Heidi Sullivan discussed the importance of integrating your communication efforts. You need to go out and find your target audience, engage with them and motivate them to action by connecting across platforms and through a variety of media. Media monitoring. “It

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 21, 2019

When Shonali reached out to me to ask if I’d write a guest post on technology in communication, I immediately jumped at the chance. Insert meme of men on a train looking at newspapers here.) Many rants are made across the tubes of information about how social media vanity stats aren’t true engagement (e.g. Fair point.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

They’ve been a staple of the business for decades because they serve a distinct purpose: to inform the media of news. Businesses use different media to tell their story in this evolving PR environment, but press releases REMAIN an effective and trustworthy source of information for companies big and small. But are they really?

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PR in High Definition

MARCH 26, 2020

In these times of uncertainty, where the situation is changing so quickly and we’re constantly receiving new snippets of information, the media has never been more important in keeping everyone informed. We’re currently living through history and as communicators, our role is vital. Here’s four things we learnt: Half and half.

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 27, 2020

With that said, many news organizations, online articles and media sites have been perpetually discussing the role streaming services play throughout the pandemic. Earned media monitoring’s role in public relations is critical in this day and age. Share Tweet Share. Netflix also received more publicity and higher audience numbers. .

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