The Stalwart Blog

JULY 25, 2017

In short, the Sun-Times intends to focus on reporting “working class” issues. Regardless of your political leanings, this strategy of "don't be everything to everyone" could stand as a model for other newspapers to follow. . While understandable, this strategy will only accelerate the demise of newspapers.

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Newspapers Strategy Television Advertising 68

Stephen Waddington

APRIL 14, 2020

Newspaper circulation during the COVID-19 crisis has been hit by as much as a third by newsagents closing and a reduction in footfall on the high street, across travel hubs and in supermarkets. In the first month of the crisis Facebook reported an increase of 50% in usage of its services. A fifth of the staff will be furloughed.

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Print Newspapers Crisis Local 102

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 13, 2019

There’s not much good news for UK media in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. Media coverage of Brexit is impacting the mood of the nation according to Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. You can download a copy of the report by following this link. The UK is suffering from news fatigue.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

It won an award from the National Newspaper Association for community service. I started writing professionally at 17 years old as a sports correspondent for my local newspaper, the Milford (NH) Cabinet. That was followed by four years as a TV sports reporter and anchor before a return to the newspaper business.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 23, 2022

The 5th Annual JOTW Strategic Communications Survey for 2022 asked respondents – 483 mostly senior comms pros – whether their organization trusts the integrity of reporting in traditional media outlets, the answer stacked up this way: 49% agreed (39%) or strongly agreed (10%); 28% neither agreed or disagree; and. Waning trust.

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The Hoyt Organization

APRIL 23, 2024

With a robust PR strategy, your nonprofit can easily differentiate its messaging from the competition, and garner support from the community. Additionally, you can easily reach the right audiences and communicate your message effectively. Aside from collaborating with like-minded organizations, partner with influencers.

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Barokas

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

My professors assumed every journalism student knew what PR was, so I never sought clarity on the job description, because I didn’t want to discredit my reporter title. I quickly fell in love with the field, and started to build my PR resume, but I’m thankful I worked as a reporter first. You learn to tell stories about everything.

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

Having worked in communications for a top-tier university, a regional nonprofit foundation and as a consultant, I’ve heard this question myself. As communicators, we work hard to engage with reporters and editors to make them aware of the great work our clients are doing — but we still understand why bosses make these urgent requests.

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PR Fuel

MAY 12, 2022

A media alert does exactly what it says on the label: makes the media aware of something big or exciting coming up for your business, so that they want to come and report on it. Send an invite to local news agencies, and you could get a significant boost in publicity if they come along and write news about your business.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

That was my first experience really using social media and the publication’s website to break news and keep residents in the community informed. Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

The excitement was contagious (I’m still in awe of the technology), and it was refreshing to feel like anything I learned was “new” and worth reporting. Like every reporter, I’m a sincerely curious person. By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper.

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HMA Public Relations

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Today’s #MediaMonday comes to us from Ellen O’Brien, reporter and photographer at the Jewish News. The Jewish News covers news of interest to and about the Jewish community throughout the Valley. Favorite local restaurants or other haunts? So, Ellen, time to share! Tell us how you got your start in writing? Tell us your story!

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

It was the first time I was doing on-my-toes, breaking news reporting in a while and it was a wild time as no one really knew what to expect. I have been in journalism or PR for 25 years — I went to Boston University for journalism and upon graduation, I worked as a business reporter for a local daily newspaper on the outside of Cleveland.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I work with a team of editors, analysts and contributors reporting on a wide range of vehicle news, test drives and dealer and industry news. I enjoyed a 17-year career at several Detroit area newspapers, including 12 years at The Oakland Press in Pontiac, MI, before shifting gears and taking a job in public relations at Buick.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Take a peek at the social communities for my biggest client (of 10 years now!), Follow-up with the 30+ folks in the local mastermind group I manage with a note about our meeting tomorrow. This is a group of senior-level communicators at the biggest companies in town (General Mills, Toro, Medtronic, etc.) .: Blog post research.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 30, 2016

The college newspaper. Community college newsletters or magazines. Campus Newspapers: The Digital Revolution Is (Also) Here. Let’s consider the campus newspaper in more depth. Research from re:fuel has shown how effective it is to reach students at their campus newspapers. The university radio or TV station.

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PRSay

MAY 8, 2018

In one class, we were asked to write a release based on a police report. I started out working for a small-town newspaper, and then for many years I was director of PR for Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. Karlie, how did observing your mother’s work in the profession and also in the local Chapter inspire you ?

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Prakkypedia

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The report stated: “The committee was particularly struck by the number of journalist jobs that have been lost in the last few years, which some evidence suggested was approximately 3000–3200 positions between 2012 and late-2017. Scheider recounts that “ nearly a quarter of jobs in the industry have vanished in less than 10 years” in the US.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Public service media is failing the public Thank you My thanks to the following communities and individuals. The project has brought me into contact with a new community of more than 50 thinkers and doers. The #FuturePRoof community goes from strength-to-strength. It’s pushed me to read more widely and think more critically.

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Landis PR

MAY 16, 2022

More recently, I was a part of a wonderful project with Landis’s client Becoming Independent (BI), a Santa Rosa-based non-profit community benefit organization that helps adults with developmental disabilities. My dad was a newspaper reporter, so I grew up with the media in my DNA. At Gap, Inc., Read all about it here.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

For example, the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey posed this question to 223 PR and communications pros…and we received a wide variety of answers from respondents. More respondents (38%) say the comms function reports to the CEO, versus 35% that say they report to the CMO. 59) “I help people communicate better.”.

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Mark My Words

MAY 23, 2022

newspapers demanded. In a further move to mark the occasion, the BBC is offering local communities a special one-off TV Licence dispensation so they can use a big screen to show the events. The Jubilee may capture post-pandemic public mood that is looking for anything to celebrate.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 16, 2019

Danielle Whitfield, Media and Public Affairs Executive, Newcastle Airport @daniellemalvina Northern boomerang: brands to Newcastle Christian Cerisola was motivated to move into PR after working for a provincial newspaper and receiving poorly targeted pitches. He described breaking a story about a pornographic video pirating ring.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

USA Today and TV stations ravaged the CrossFit brand (a typical headline in a UK newspaper: “Booty Shame: CrossFit trainer blasted for sharing snaps of female clients bent over in the gym”). What about a local gym owner posting photos of members stretching upside down in their black spandex? Facebook page ) and.

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Reputation Specialist Michael Toebe

OCTOBER 2, 2021

It seems Sting wasn’t considering how his initial communication was being experienced and interpreted and while that is understandable and he meant no harm, when it comes to other people’s emotions and reputation, we would be wise to be extremely careful in communicating anything that could be considered reasonably hurtful and harmful.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Every so often, I’ll see it in one of my social feeds: That comment or remark from a friend, colleague or industry person taking jabs at the hard copy newspaper and those that read it. I still love my hard copy newspaper. ask yourself: Why AREN’T I reading my daily newspaper? It’s not surprising. With our park.

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

And we are now something in between publishers, editors, and reporters. And reporters, because it's the reporter who finds the news. You can't do that sort of thing in a newspaper or on TV. Host: Then in those years when you were in the plant you made your first newspaper? Publishers because we own media.

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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. What’s the most under-reported business story in Minnesota? Looking for more tips from local pros of the journalism world? Star Tribune , and.

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Flatiron Communications

JULY 5, 2022

Of course, this media-obsessed PR person took note of the scores of top tier journalists moderating, reporting, and/or speaking on stage. There is that group of people who just want to understand this without having to subscribe to a newspaper or listen to NPR. This is our audience.”. Notably, Ms.

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Journalistics

APRIL 17, 2013

Brands that are winning in the brands as media game have figured out that the skillfully told brand stories, and the completely unrelated content that serves the information needs of the community, serves to build an audience and promote loyalty, conversations and sharing more than ever before. Think Local. Test And Learn.

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Reputation Us

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Having a crisis communications plan enabled Stacie Wyss-Schoenborn, president/CEO of the $248 million Central Willamette Community Credit Union in Albany, Ore., A local newspaper reporter picked up the incident from a police report and then two TV news stations did follow-up stories. The reporter agreed.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

I’m an autos and business reporter for The Detroit News. Some of the most fun I’ve had as a reporter has involved traveling to Washington, D.C. Some of the most fun I’ve had as a reporter has involved traveling to Washington, D.C. I later went home to report out a story about the end of The Vindicator.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

Interestingly, MRI-Simmons reports that while more than 80% of 100+ national magazines have lower readership than they did 10 years ago, nearly 90% of those magazines have maintained or increased readership over the past two years. And keeping in mind that a lot of news on social media originated with a reporter or media outlet.)

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 8, 2021

First, PR Week and Cision recently released their 2020 Comms Report which shared the following stats: When asked how much of your current engagement efforts are focused on mainstream media vs. influencers, 74% of respondents said mainstream media and just 26% said influencers. newspapers have shed HALF their newsroom employees since 2008.

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Walcher Communications , a public relations and marketing firm based out of San Diego with a diverse mix of local, regional, and national clients. She has spent her career in PR agencies with a penchant for crisis communications. Here is a sample story that this reporter has done in the past. The list goes on and on.

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Bad Pitch Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

This is a real danger in local markets where one editor might ride several community newspapers or one news director edits multiple radio news reports. The people in question are simply not reviewing their lists. Or their media lists are so long they don’t realize a name has been listed twice.

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Maxim Behar

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We remember a few years ago, if something appeared in the morning news, then it was reprinted in electronic newspapers, generally speaking, and then it appeared on social media. I remember at the time that there was a study in a kindergarten and a reporter asked a child, "Do you know who Boyko Borisov is?", It is not local.

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