Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

How did you get your start in journalism? I wanted to be a writer from an early age and after I completed a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course when I was 18, I started working for my local newspaper in Cheshire, England, where I lived. How do you choose what stories to cover? Rapid Fire Round.

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Cision

MARCH 29, 2016

According to a survey of the releases distributed by (a certain PR firm) on one day: 78% of public relations people spend extra money to dress up their releases with printed letterheads and color…the 78% broke down into 34% on a simple black letterhead, 16% on a one-color letterhead, and 28% on a letterhead with two or more colors.

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PR Fuel

AUGUST 7, 2018

Write the release first, edit it later. Keep the release looking good with solid writing and formatting. Never Write a Press Release Without a Plan. When it comes to press release writing, it’s easy to see it as just another task filling up your to-do list. What should you write next? Craft a great headline.

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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. Of course, there are always exceptions, but by and large, these work awfully well. Cloud) and print (The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal).

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

Today, USA Today ranks first in combined print and digital circulation, underlying the importance of this digital transformation for newsrooms around the world. The question they always come back to when writing a story is, what is going to resonate with my readers? Q: What’s the biggest thing you need from PR pros? “If

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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. Of course—every day!

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Shift Communications

MARCH 1, 2016

When I get a standard answer like “the Wall Street Journal” or “The New York Times”, my follow up is “Who at those pubs do you follow?” Reporters will source and interview for the first half of the day and write for the second. It’s a simple question, really, but often it’s the question that trips folks up the most.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And who does not understand it, of course, will have to part with it. In fact, I've been doing this for at least 40 years - first in journalism and then in business. Straight - journalism, but in a slightly higher form, carrying the interests of the business you work for, absolutely in accordance with all ethical and moral rules.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 14, 2013

If and when you’re free, please join us, and of course, if you have questions you’d like me to answer, you can always post them to the show’s official Facebook Page. ET, and of course, just use the hashtag #measurePR. #4: 4: Who’s on a Washington Business Journal list? In a good way. 5: Thank you.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

However, other traditionally print new organizations – notably the Wall Street Journal and USA Today – got into the podcast game far earlier. Audio in marketing doesn’t just mean podcasts writes David Kirkpatrick for Marketing Dive – The call for audio content marketing gets louder. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 30, 2018

Alice Riot is a line of professional women’s garments that serve as the canvases for limited-edition prints of original works by female artists. Current role: Full-time faculty member at the University of Minnesota – Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. How long have you been in this job/field? Betsy Andersen.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 23, 2016

My wardrobe last Wednesday included Nike yoga pants, tennis shoes and a coral screen print Delta Gamma Shirt, which, if you knew my time at Mississippi State, had to be two years old. I had to stop Sinek’s lecture because I started losing my focus on writing this blog. Guest Post by Emma Hawes . It is simply mesmerizing.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Keywords, of course, being high-quality, attract and engage. You can spend months writing a white paper or spend thousands on a video, but if it’s not laser focused and doesn’t reach the right audiences it’s not going to convert. According to Search Engine Journal, SEO leads have a 14.6 How to Overcome These Hurdles

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PR Fuel

JULY 24, 2018

Determine the chronology of your business story before writing it. The language, idioms, and examples you use in your business story will likely vary depending on whether you’re writing for million dollar home buyers or Kindergarten teachers. Simple Advice: Write Like You Speak, Reporters Will Listen. Just write like you speak.

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Journalistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It was pure magic the first time I read an article in print that was the result of a story I pitched. Back then, if you called enough reporters, you would eventually find a couple willing to listen to your pitch – and perhaps one or two that would write a story.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

I test drive new equipment offerings in print and video formats. Wilson award for business journalism. I’m not boasting here, but nobody was more surprised than me to win that award, as I had not formal training in writing. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

In the course of putting together the monthly PR technology summary ( PR Tech Sum ), I’ve realized that no news site has compiled a complete list of all the acquisitions around Cision. Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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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. Of course, they can be aggressive, rude, and maybe uneducated.

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PRSay

MAY 23, 2017

With the 2017 Stylebook print edition to be published May 31, AP has OK’d “they” as a singular pronoun. You can buy the print edition at the AP store ( store.apstylebook.com) or via Amazon. Don Bates, APR, Fellow PRSA teaches graduate PR writing and management courses at New York University. Petersburg, Fla.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Of course, these sites know most of the press releases have little value to their readers, so they create a back page that’s buried out of sight. Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. The organization switched from Cision according to the write-up. In fact, it’s not an editorial placement at all.

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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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NewsWhip

APRIL 28, 2021

So we talk about circulation of a magazine, let’s say, so the circulation is how many are printed and put into newsagents. If that age group is still reading your Arabian Business or your Forbes Magazine, then we’ll still continue to write a press release. And what we can see now is those numbers are vastly different.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

You’re late with the apology of course, but that just feeds the delicate balance. 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. And that’s it folks. Just wait a few months and do it all over again.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

First, Writing Skills. No matter what you’ve heard about all that sexy social media stuff, you still need to know how to write in PR. Ideally, you majored in Journalism (or English) – or your PR or Communications program had a heavy concentration of writing-related courses. Second, Internship Experience.

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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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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

With print becoming less important to audiences, telling stories in more visual ways is critical – and public relations professionals can help. Of course, developing multimedia assets while trying to report a story is difficult. I can write three articles in the amount of time I can shoot a video.”.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

From creating an online course to video marketing, webinar recording, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, new content creation (including eBooks, guides and cheat sheets) and email marketing, Amy is going to reveal what works (and what doesn’t) once and for all. High Income Business Writing. 39) Donna Papacosta.

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Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

Of course, since I know how busy media relations professionals can be (and since I’m such a swell guy), I’ve gone ahead and done the work for you. If multimedia journalism is the biggest trend in the media environment, it’s safe to assume that multimedia publicists are also an emerging trend. And guess what?

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Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

Of course, since I know how busy media relations professionals can be (and since I’m such a swell guy), I’ve gone ahead and done the work for you. If multimedia journalism is the biggest trend in the media environment, it’s safe to assume that multimedia publicists are also an emerging trend. And guess what?

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

Meanwhile, a media company like Hearst might publish a feature article in the print edition of Esquire magazine, and the sole “point” of that article might be “make the reader feel like they really get Chris Evans.” ” To many, injecting a CTA into a piece of writing is to sully the art form. ” Why?

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As a journalist who writes about pretty much everything for pretty much everyone (most recently The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Smithsonian Magazine), all of the above are things I hear on a pretty regular basis. When the publicist sends me three emails a week to find out when I’m writing the story. And that’s it.

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