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How Public Relations Can Fight Fake News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Like many in PR, advertising, and journalism, I was relieved when Google and Facebook announced they would ban “fake news” sites from using use their ad services. Post-factual “news” isn’t merely annoying or even just a threat to journalism – it’s a magnet for the mentally unstable.

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How to Use Dynamic Listening to Reach New Customers

Cision

With social media and access to this information being so easy, anybody with a smartphone and an idea can become a viral source of news. Recent studies by Forrester suggest that 40 percent of consumers in both the B2B and B2C space have a high willingness and ability to shift current spends. Listen to Increase Customer Spend.

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Media 102? A brief update to media 101

PR in High Definition

These are three traditional job titles in the journalism world which have been around for over a century. They’re the main players that make up the journalist line-up that you’ll find in every national newspaper in the UK today. Columnists. Recently, though, it dawned on me just how much this line-up is changing. News been framed!

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5 Business Press Hits & The PR Strategy Behind Them

Shift Communications

But coverage in The Wall Street Journal s, Forbes , Business Insiders and Fortunes of the world are achievable for companies of all sizes – startup or mature, public or private. And it went completely viral – with mentions on radio shows around the country, Good Morning America , lifestyle press like Woman’s Day and other business outlets.

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“Potentially concerning”

Mark My Words

Potentially particles colliding in the science world’s answer to the circle line could inadvertently open up a world-consuming black hole. More than any other aspect of journalism medical reporting seems to have free reign to spin stories to the far side of fantasy. Potentially Katie Hopkins could someday make a good point.

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#18: The future of storytelling in healthcare communications

NewsWhip

Influence of local newspapers | Jump to text. I would say that the fruits of our labor can be anything from a story in the Wall Street Journal, to a local TV segment on CBS, to a sponsored article within women’s books, but we don’t throw spaghetti on the wall. Finding relevance diamonds, like maskne | Jump to text.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Way before newspapers, the Romans and Greeks used scrolls, Egyptians used papyrus, and ancient China used a form of paper to distribute information, even if that information was limited to an inner circle of elites or an educated few in those cases. China is credited with starting the world's first newspaper.

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