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How the Canadian Newspaper Industry Can Adapt to Changes

Business Wire

By Jean-Adrien Delicano, Media Relations Specialist, Business Wire Another month, another round of layoffs and “restructuring” in the Canadian media world. The struggles faced by Canadian news media professionals are well-documented. Perhaps none have been affected more than print newspapers.

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How COVID-19 will impact PR practice and skills

Stephen Waddington

In the public sector, communicators have never been busier, as energy is directed to public education and information. Media relations has been impacted by a decline in advertising and the reduced distribution of newsprint. Digital media is booming. Newsrooms have been cut back to the bone and journalists furloughed.

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5 Solos PR Pros Share How They Structure Their Work Day

Solo PR Pro

There’s a whole community of like minded people you can lean on. That healthy habit came in handy in the first phase of my career as an investor relations professional for newly public technology companies in Silicon Valley during the 80s and early 90s. Financial markets open trading at 6:30 a.m.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. PR leads with earned and owned media but also uses paid and shared media for amplification and targeting. The #FuturePRoof community goes from strength-to-strength.

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Why ROI and PR are like Oil and Water

Doctor Spin

Cover photo by Jerry Silfwer ( Prints / Instagram ). Instead, we must demonstrate how we’re increasing shareholder value, creating room for the organisation to grow, mitigating potential losses, and safeguarding future revenue. Any boardroom would be mad not to invite such a PR function. Humans influence humans. Image credit: Unknown.

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A Night at the 40th Annual Totem Awards

Barokas

Our team’s media relations chops and social media strategies rose above the competition and were honored in the following four categories: Media Relations – VICIS. billion media impressions for VICIS. Media Relations – CanPay Debit. Our team’s work generated over 1.2 Public Affairs – Apprenti.

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What is the Business Problem We’re Trying to Solve?

prTini

I used to work at another PR agency whose main focus was media relations and getting media placement for clients. We didn’t measure website traffic, and there were no real metrics we were tracking; the focus was strictly on quantity of media placement. Not even quality , just quantity.