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Writing For Journalism And Writing For PR: How They Differ

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

I was a journalism major, so most of my writing experience in college had a reporting angle. Whether it was through classes, writing for the school newspaper , or my personal blogs, my writing involved reporting facts, interviewing subjects, and taking down their quotes. What are you writing about?

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PRSA Introduces Innovative Program to Guide Journalists Transitioning Into PR and Communications

PRSay

Through the years, the PR and comms fields have been attractive landing spots for journalists with their writing and storytelling skills and media prowess. During the five-week course, several co-presenters will join them. Journalists have excellent communications skills, such as writing and the ability to speak clearly and concisely.

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AP Style in Public Relations: Top Five Tips for Press Releases

Landis PR

Our team collectively cheered the recent release of the 56 th Edition of the Associated Press Stylebook , a spiral-bound guide widely used as a writing and editing standards-setter by the media, corporate communications and worldwide. Additional Writing Resources: Grammar Girl – Quick and Dirty Writing Tips. By Diana G.

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Meet the Media: Justine Murphy, Senior Editor at Laser Focus World

Bianchi Biz Blog

As special publications editor for The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire (the fifth oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S.), Back when I was a newspaper reporter, I wrote a series of articles about an embattled high school principal accused of misconduct, including secretly altering the grades of several students.

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The Top Industries That Benefit From Hiring a PR Company

PR Fuel

Press releases are, of course, the perfect way to inform the public. By distributing a press release about it, you will inform the publishers of magazines and newspapers that it does, indeed, exist. Getting this news out to local publishers could very well result in feature stories in magazines, newspapers, and the like.

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“Speaking” through music is a great challenge but also a responsibility.

Maxim Behar

Thirty-five years ago, I was among the founders of a beautiful newspaper in Bulgaria - the "Standart" newspaper, which still exists today, and I read it with pleasure. I don't write them down, perhaps to my great regret, but all of them are within me and in what I do. The memories are distant, of course, but I remember waiting.

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The Human Touch

Prakkypedia

But of course, it’s not possible for a client to have something newsworthy to share month after month. Don’t overlook the people that work in your organisation: they could be the key to your next magazine piece, newspaper profile or 30-minute radio conversation. There’s also a huge appetite for personal profiles across industry media.