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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

By Frank Strong, Founder & President of Sword and the Script Media. Media relations is hard and getting harder. A majority (68%) of respondents said media relations is getting “harder” (53%) or “much harder” (15%). It’s harder to know who is [the] media and who isn’t. 2) Truly study the media.

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Dispelling 6 Myths PR Sometimes has about Content Marketing

Sword and the Script

A survey I teamed up with Ned Lundquist to conduct of PR pros last year found 51% said media relations was getting harder. This is why content marketing plays such a crucial role in media relations , among many other aspects of PR and corporate communications. Myth 3: You can’t pitch reporters with content.

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Succession Season Premiere: What Was All That Media Monitoring Talk About?

Critical Mention

The second season ended in thrilling fashion, with Kendall Roy, Logan’s son, double-crossing his father in a shocking press conference where he was supposed to take the fall for a company scandal, but instead implicated his father in the scandal and a host of cover-ups and illegal activity.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

Conversely, those companies who show respect to their people – both in working conditions and pay – will continue to thrive and receive the positive accolades and media coverage which comes with supporting all those on their payroll. Scott Kaminski , Senior Marketing Manager, Häfele America Co. . Growth of independent journalism. “We

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30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020

Sword and the Script

“The early adopters have been educating the market in the last few years about the successes that can be had with integrating own, earned and paid media. Firms that stick to being mere providers of media relations will continue to lose market share.” 5) Marketers will slow down. How can they do that?

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Two Reasons PR Needs to Budget a Little Paid Social Budget Next Year

Sword and the Script

The survey doesn’t get into how that budget would be broken out, which means it could include entail headcount, creative or design, social media management tools, and paid social. I want to advocate for paid social and specifically as part of a media relations program. 1) Use paid social to support media pitching.

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Can a PR Software Vendor Provide “Guaranteed” Editorial Placements? [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. Old fashioned press releases and advertising can lead to bona fide editorial coverage.

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