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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

The 2019 edition of their survey revealed similar data points, so it’s not new, but it’s definitely real. Because so many journalists are on the platform. Those numbers were tallied up by Muck Rack for the company’s The State of Journalism 2020 report. My presentation will focus on ways to use Twitter to earn media coverage.

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Mirror mirror on the wall, is this not the death of newspapers after all?

PR in High Definition

The death of print media has been speculated for years now, but Trinity Mirror is taking a punt and unveiling a new Monday-to-Friday newspaper, The New Day, from 29 February. The post Mirror mirror on the wall, is this not the death of newspapers after all? appeared first on Firefly Communications.

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News planning, tools and workflow to build an editorial calendar

Stephen Waddington

News planning and landing a story The definition of news is the release of a story that wasn’t previously known. The chip paper phrase originates from the 24 hours news cycle when newspapers printed two editions per day. Documents can also be easily exported in a virtual, physical file or print format.

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AP Style: How relevant is it in 2019?

Communications Conversations

It began as a way to standardize rules around editing based on mass media–specifically, mainstream print media. In the golden age of print, AP Style reigned supreme because editors and reporters used it–therefore, PR types like us were forced to learn it and use it. Think about the genesis of AP Style.

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Your client is accused of price gauging, now what? – Scott Brooks

Ethical Voices

I saw a column from Scott in a local newspaper and reached out to invite him to be a guest. I spent about the first 15 years of my career doing radio, television and also some print journalism over the years. If you look at it back in the early days of the Republic, there was definitely bias in journalism.

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Media relations in the wake of COVID-19

PR in High Definition

There’s no question that the media landscape has changed significantly since the start of the coronavirus outbreak – outlets are providing daily online live feeds, newspapers have stopped physically printing and reporters from all over the world are covering the stories and situations from every angle possible.