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How an underground high school newspaper led to a 10+ year blog

Communications Conversations

Last Saturday, there was a wonderful article in the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about groups of kids who had started neighborhood newspapers during the pandemic. And second, school newspapers are in my blood. First, let’s talk about this underground student newspaper, because it’s an interesting story.

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Journalists Love Twitter, and if Your Job is Media Relations, You Should too

Sword and the Script

Most PR professionals seem to agree that media relations just gets harder every year. In 2018, 51% of respondents said media relations is getting harder, according to the annual JOTW Communications Survey, that I’ve partnered with Ned Lundquist and Ned’s Job of the Week newsletter to field. In 2019, that number jumped 17 points to 68%.

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Meet the Media: Michael Freeze, Features Editor at Transport Topics

Bianchi Biz Blog

We are a business-to-business weekly newspaper covering the trucking and logistics industries. It’s an instance of history not repeating itself, but definitely rhyming. My first job was an assistant editor/web for a magazine called Transportation & Logistics from Penton Media in Cleveland. A space to watch, for sure.

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4 trends in journalism and what they mean for the PR industry

Communications Conversations

Media outlets are fragmented and politcized. Today I thought I’d take a look at some of the macro-level trends happening in the media industry and their impact on us, as PR professionals, in the coming years. For PRs, that means supplying more content to our media friends. Newspapers are struggling. Will it last?

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Media 102? A brief update to media 101

PR in High Definition

They’re the main players that make up the journalist line-up that you’ll find in every national newspaper in the UK today. The gig economy as a whole has boomed in the UK in recent years and the media has benefited from this; the number of freelancers contributing to newspapers and magazines feels at an all-time high.

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Digital PR ? Link-Building

Doctor Spin

The rapid evolution of the internet and social media has transformed the communications industry—and PR professionals must adapt. Social media, blogs, podcasts, and other online channels presented new opportunities for communication. Digital PR is not link-building for SEO. But this is SEO, not digital PR.

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How the PESO Model Changes PR’s Conversation

Cision

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. The PESO model takes the four media types —paid, earned, shared and owned—and merges them together.