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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

On the Internet today, everything is marketing and paid — except perhaps for Wikipedia and a few remaining journalists not hiding behind paywalls. How Marketing Kicked Our PR Ass. Digital PR specialists must share what they do, how they do it, and why. Cover photo by Jerry Silfwer ( Prints / Instagram ).

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The PR Industry Needs More Than Just Better PR

Doctor Spin

On the Internet today, everything is marketing, and everything is paid—except perhaps for Wikipedia and a few remaining journalists not hiding behind paywalls. Digital PR specialists must share what they do, how they do it, and why. If you’re working as a digital PR specialist like me, put together a digital PR course.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

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.

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Digital journalism is alive but is digital PR?

Norton's Notes

Digital journalism can mean many things according to Wikipedia: Digital journalism also known as online journalism is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is distributed via the Internet as opposed to publishing via print or broadcast. Journalism Social Media digital journalism digital PR'

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PR Must Lose Its Reliance on Hierarchy

Where the Fishermen Ain't

It least it wasn’t in the print edition!”. Late-2000s-to-Early-2010s: Chief-of-Staff calls, freaking out about the Wikipedia article about the company’s CEO. PR person (who keeps up with such things) encourages discussion with Wikipedia volunteers. Executive suite says something like, “Well, thank God!

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PR Must Lose Its Reliance on Hierarchy

Where the Fishermen Ain't

It least it wasn’t in the print edition!”. Late-2000s-to-Early-2010s: Chief-of-Staff calls, freaking out about the Wikipedia article about the company’s CEO. PR person (who keeps up with such things) encourages discussion with Wikipedia volunteers. Executive suite says something like, “Well, thank God!