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Social Media Plays an Important Role in Public Relations

Ronn Torossian

Back in the day, public relations meant press releases, stuffy press conferences, and companies hoping that their messages wouldn’t get lost in the stack of newspapers on the consumer’s doorstep. However, those days are long gone, and right now, things are quite different.

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Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffett Sees Newspapers Dying

Remote PR Jobs

Originally seen on Bloomberg Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is pessimistic on the newspaper industry at a time when public relations specialists are increasingly outnumbering journalists. Companies tend to hire either internal or external PR specialists to help shape and manage their image. Some, like Starbucks Corp.,

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Benefits You Can Only Get From Social Media Marketing

Prohibition

Advertising comes in many different shapes and sizes and the traditional methods have their benefits, but so does paid social media advertisements. Here we are going to take a look at the differences between the two and pick out the benefits that social media marketing has over those traditional methods.

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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. In March 2017, Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper company, announced 54 layoffs at the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province newsrooms.

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

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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The Top Industries That Benefit From Hiring a PR Company

PR Fuel

Press releases not only inform the public as to your company’s current actions but they also provide you with the opportunity to foster your company’s public image. While most companies can benefit from PR distribution , some types of companies benefit more than others. Curious as to which companies these are?

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Why good writing is the best foundation of a successful social media career

Communications Conversations

.” And we know the best people at the top of agencies and companies are good *thinkers.” 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. I love to write.

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