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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

This piece originally appeared on Contently’s The Freelance Creative. In traditional journalism, diligent fact-checking is a given. When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. This type of work is not journalism, strictly speaking.

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The Press Release is Not Dead, But It Has Evolved

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

For the backstory on how press releases came to be, see the Wikipedia entry for Press Release – History Evolution of the press release As the media landscape changed, so has the press release. This is one of the reasons I tell PR students that a minor or emphasis in multimedia journalism and journalistic writing is a solid choice.

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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. While that’s arguably true, depending on when you start the timeline, the reality is there were several more involved in the formation of the company as it stands today. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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How to Get On in New Communications: Be Nice

ZudePR

You work in public relations, SEO, content marketing or social media marketing. You’re thinking of completely overhauling how you market your company. You are finding it more and more difficult to get your company’s message heard. We both own PR companies, with a twist. I think so.

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How the Explainer Changed Digital Media Forever

Contently - Strategy

Aggregation is an old practice in journalism, and digital transformation has only encouraged it. On the whole, digital media doesn’t just tell stories anymore; it answers questions and anticipates follow-up inquiries, delivering explanatory content on intricacies you might have missed. “What, they could go to Wikipedia?

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