Solo PR Pro

JULY 5, 2022

Michael Ares, MDA Corporate Marketing, LLC. reviewing all the news alerts I have set up for my clients and their industry competitors and fielding urgent emails before devoting the rest of the morning to writing and other client work. I write or pitch media in the mornings, so I am only available beginning at noon daily.

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Presspage

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Not long ago, a brand newsroom editor pushed positive but often bland, corporate-toned pieces to the brand’s newsroom. The new corporate newsroom managing editor has a different set of responsibilities today that didn’t exist 15 years ago. Brand Journalism. Hence, the introduction of brand journalism.

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Presspage

JANUARY 23, 2018

He writes the blog Silicon Valley Watcher — reporting on the collision of media and technology. In essence he saw early on that the Internet was one massive, accessible and affordable digital printing press. Press release! In 2006, Foremski published one of his most unforgettable blogs titled Die!

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Critical Mention

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This is also true of some important industry and academic journals. Fortunately, Critical Mention has enhanced its already robust online news tracking with a Licensed Content offering for those seeking to unlock subscription paywalls and have access to restricted print-only content. Until next time! Critical Mention. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Because I twitch at the utterance of business cliches, it feels like an electric shock jolting through my body to write that the media industry was going through “unprecedented change” at the time. Although editorial rooms were being gutted and print revenue was dropping, it was an opportune time to be young and cheap labor.

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Despite denials and indignation from journalists, money does talk at many prints, electronic, and online media sources; often in direct relation to the financial health and business prospects of its corporate owners. Do you completely disagree and believe journalism ethics are alive and well today? Let me know.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The addition rounds out the company’s monitoring suite which includes online print and social media monitoring. At the time of this writing, it wasn’t clear if Propel built broadcast monitoring tool itself or partnered with a mature provider to obtain it.

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Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 17, 2014

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I’m a big devotee of reading the hard copy print edition of my local newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. And, it also includes some syndicated content from the Wall Street Journal, which I really enjoy. But at the end of the day we write off a fair amount of work.

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Shift Communications

MAY 26, 2015

In the world of PR, landing client coverage in publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg Businessweek is the ultimate win — and when that story runs in print, it’s icing on the cake. Don’t rely on basic corporate announcements or product launches. Give them something unique. Be prepared.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Treat subject lines like you’re a copywriter at a big ad agency and you have to write a killer headline for a new ad. My pro tip: Write 10 subject lines for each pitch. Cloud) and print (The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal). Write a killer pitch and then be fast and helpful throughout their reporting process.

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PR Conversations

APRIL 24, 2018

Probably because of my background in journalism (see the next answer), the thing I continue to enjoy the most is writing (for effective communications). For that matter, I don’t know why I felt at a young age the “call” of journalism, as there was no family tradition in this type of career. Why do you work in PR?

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

has been exploring in her work on women in journalism. Each corporate PRCA member will be expected to engage with a local school each year. The web was the most significant shift in publishing since the invention of the printing press in the 15th Century. It’s an issue that is quickly rising up the corporate agenda.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 30, 2018

You could replace “agency life” with “corporate life” and insert a whole other sub-set of people, too. Kelly Groehler, Tim Westermeyer and Betsy Andersen all traded in their corporate and agency PR careers for work in another field. They all knew that I had no interest in returning to a corporate role.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 14, 2013

Since we switched to a new, monthly format, and also as we cut back a bit on our publishing schedule, and also as I have been a little bit crazed with a bunch of stuff, I still haven’t gotten around to writing a recap. 4: Who’s on a Washington Business Journal list? ET, and of course, just use the hashtag #measurePR. #4:

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Email newsletters are a particularly useful tool for financial services companies, especially if you’re writing about personal finance. For nearly five decades, Money was a glossy finance magazine published by Meredith Corporation. Try a new audience with a new offering. Keep topics personal and relatable.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Its almost sad. Cheesier [.]

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

So is native advertising (sometimes called brand journalism or, more generally, content marketing) a curse or cure all? In his story Journalism, Independent and Not , he wrote about his disappointment in finding info that at first seemed newsworthy – but was actually underwritten by a vendor, according to some very fine print.

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Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 2, 2008

Here it is – along with official BPB responses: * I spent about a decade as a reporterbefore going into business doing writing, editing and media relations. In the real world of competitive corporate America no one believes puff pieces exist out of the gate. Free media does not exist except as an anomaly; it’s earned.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Then at a certain point, I parted ways with journalism. I still think of this quote from Winston Churchill: "One can achieve many things with journalism, but one must know when to leave it". Now, 10% of it is in print, the other 90% is on the social media platforms. Kirill Asenov writes “One question gives me no peace.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

In this interview, Verónica, who leads PR agency Porter Novelli’s health and wellness practice in Mexico City, opens up about practicing PR in Latin America, her passion for healthcare communication and her transition from journalism to PR. How did you get your start in public relations and healthcare communication?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 17, 2021

I work out of my home and call my freelance writing business Baxter TechWrite. I eschew corporate titles, and simply refer to myself as a freelance writer. These transmissions were developed at the Fuller Transmission Division of Eaton Corporation and, to me, represent a true engineering milestone.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. Cision – the Swedish company that grew up making printed directories of media contacts – ought to have the institutional knowledge to know better than to call it as such. The organization switched from Cision according to the write-up. Meltwater beats earnings.

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MaccaPR

MAY 23, 2018

What could the producers and editors of The Wall Street Journal , “The Dr. Oz Show,” BuzzFeed, Parents magazine and NBC’s “Today Show” teach you about successfully pitching a story to the most sought-after media outlets in America? Are you pitching a print publication? And then we blast it out to the news media. Consider the Medium.

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Maxim Behar

MARCH 6, 2022

Remember what Winston Churchill said a long time ago that you can achieve a lot of things with journalism, but you must know when to quit. So that's how I decided to quit journalism and start my own company. They were writing stories, covering events on the TV, talking on the radio, and hence they were called journalists.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Since you said “sorry” everyone will just write you off as having made a dumb move – they’ll never suspect this was a premeditated marketing campaign. A month earlier the Wall Street Journal reported Urban Outfitters needed a “ wardrobe refresh ” after yet another lackluster quarterly earnings announcement: …shares dropped by 8.8%

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ZudePR

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Reading this book inspired me to write this blog post , which has been shared more than 1700 times on social media. #2: Hot off the printed press. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos — whatever. Being a good writer is about more than writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Cialdini PH.D. 1995) £7.69.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you’re a corporate communications or public relations executive in Minnesota, the status of our state’s largest newspaper – the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune , with more than 250 editors and reporters – is always of intense interest. Paul Business Journal, Twin Cities Business, Minnesota Business, MinnPost and more? "We

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In Two-Way Street , a short book about public relations published in 1948, Eric Goldman describes the three stages of the development of corporate communication from 1900. The rise of mass media, namely print newspapers, magazines, radio and television, provided a shortcut to large audiences and it enabled the business to operate at scale.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Further reading Corporate Digital Responsibility, Allegory, 29 July 2021, [link] The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, 3 February 2021, [link] Carbon as a PR metric but who's counting? It’s also an issue of writing style. 30 agencies submitted data to the project.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. The printing press emerged around 600 years ago, but printed media technically existed for thousands of years.

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