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Bloomberg Joins the Flawed Dot-connecting Discourse Between Journalism and PR

Ishmael's Corner

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. This headline from Bloomberg showed up in my Twitter feed yesterday (h/t Dorothy Crenshaw): “Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffett Sees Newspapers Dying” Let’s start with the headline, which is technically accurate.

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Flawed Dot Connecting from Washington Post Correlates Rise of PR to the Fall of Journalism

Ishmael's Corner

Since Craigslist eviscerated the classified ads business in newspapers, journalists have been writing the “poor me” story. At some point, it became fashionable for these “poor me” stories to blame the PR industry for journalism’s shrinking job pool. The best non-fiction storytelling on the planet comes from journalists.

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What Lies Ahead for Public Relations in 2018?

PRSay

We’ve watched traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television decrease in importance thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other social platforms. Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism. Knowing how to work with big data will also become more important for PR pros.

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Meet the Media: David Sickels, Editor of The Buzz & Senior Editor of Tire Review & Fleet Equipment

Bianchi Biz Blog

Lately, I’ve been focusing on the medium for storytelling and trying to take the most advantage of the tools at my disposal. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started by writing for the Arts & Life section of my college newspaper at The University of Akron roughly 12 years ago.

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

Sword and the Script

Earned media still the most credible source of info Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Their study was published in the Journal of Promotion Management and summarized in a piece for the Institute for Public Relations ( IPR ). Try our services.

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Why Your Content Strategy is Failing And How to Fix it

Beyond PR

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? According to Search Engine Journal, SEO leads have a 14.6 100, 500, maybe 1,000? percent close rate.

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4 Media Relations Lessons from The Washington Post and Other DC Newsrooms

Beyond PR

Although the trio’s conversation focused on the state of journalism in the District, the obstacles and opportunities they discussed not only apply to most news markets, they also impact their PR counterparts. Learn more about data visualization. Quality still rules the day in journalism and PR. This is an area where PR can help.