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Is Traditional Media Still Relevant in PR?

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

Print media (magazine) consumption rose in 2023 , and this trend should continue in 2024, according to a study by Pew Research Center (via MediaPost). As more of us get our news digitally, newspapers have taken the hardest hit; however, the estimated total US daily newspaper circulation (print and digital combined) in 2022 was 20.9

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A Marketing to Media Translation Dictionary For Journalists Turned Content Marketers

Contently - Strategy

You can also use this dictionary as a lead tool, if you’re a marketing exec who wants to hire a team of Pulitzer Prize-winning writers for your brand’s blog. You’ll need to speak their language to recruit them, and veteran newspaper reporters don’t necessarily know what “ map against your KPIs ” means.

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Why Content Marketing and Public Relations Need Each Other

Sword and the Script

It was a good pitch. After several unsuccessful attempts, I re-worked my pitch into a blog post and published it on the company blog. This new trend some were calling content marketing had the hallmarks of a soft and subtle pitch. Media Changes mean PR needs Content Marketing.

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45 Marketing and PR Statistics that Recap the Year We Had in 2020

Sword and the Script

The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020. The survey found, “The top three areas live event budgets will be reallocated to are content creation (43%): hosted webinars (40%); and search marketing (33%).”. The deluge of PR pitches.

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3 Lessons Fractl Learned From Creating and Promoting Holiday Content

Buzzstream

For PR pros, these times of the year represent not only a festive season, but more importantly a competitive, short, and oversaturated pitching landscape. Even though the writer over at SimpleMost loved our pitch, she knew her editor wasn’t going to have time to read through the pitch and assign it out.

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Get a Big Picture of the PR Landscape with these Notes from 10 Industry Surveys

Sword and the Script

It could be a way to cut through the clutter since reporters are deluged with pitches. Keep in mind, the story you are pitching has to actually be worthy of an exclusive. Content marketing and media relations need each other. All the basic advice still applies (timeliness, relevancy and newsworthiness).

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Marketing Has a Best Practices Problem

Contently - Strategy

Because what do we normally do when we need better results as content marketers? Our biggest issue is how we make decisions in our work as content marketers. The newspaper industry learned this the hard way. They could print the same number of words on fewer sheets and thus avoid the tax.

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