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How the Canadian Newspaper Industry Can Adapt to Changes

Business Wire

In March 2017, Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper company, announced 54 layoffs at the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province newsrooms. The struggles faced by Canadian news media professionals are well-documented. Perhaps none have been affected more than print newspapers.

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News planning, tools and workflow to build an editorial calendar

Stephen Waddington

It’s an important process document for a PR team that sets priorities between different announcements and ensures there are no clashes. The calendar is typically a working document managed by the PR team and its agencies and shared with the board or senior leadership team and operational areas of the organisation.

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21 things that defined PR agency life before the web (you won’t believe no #5)

Stephen Waddington

The phone has become an underused tool Double spaced press releases for edits and notes Printing at a dedicated workstation from disk, documents shared via hard copy Sharing a dial-up modem and email address between the whole office Photocopying, posting and faxing press releases Printing and collating press kits for an event An embargo was an embargo (..)

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

The feature “enables organizations to gather on-the-fly insights from global print, broadcast and social media platforms, contextually analyze specific brand mentions or trends, and perform language translations.” This helps understand the key points of an article without having to spend time reading the entire document.

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Blendle: Bite-sized saviour of journalism or future apathy victim?

PR in High Definition

Whilst print and online media isn’t ‘dead’ by any measure, it’s certainly had a lot of troubles. Enter Blendle: The app that tries to do for print publications what Flipboard did for onlines, letting you mix and match articles from different magazines and newspapers.

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12 ways to produce a killer press release

Presspage

Surely everyone knows by now that stuffy, old-style press releases don’t cut it when reporters are busier than ever and newspapers want multimedia assets for their online editions. Stick to one announcement per release Give the one reason why there is something press worthy, and stick to that for the entire document, Telisman says.

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Charles told me: Listen to what King Simeon II is saying, each his word is priceless.

Maxim Behar

It was Sunday morning and somehow, I worriedly called my Scottish friend Gilbert McCall, who then managed the office of the consulting giant KPMG in Sofia, he immediately agreed to meet, a purely British editing of the text went through, I found two frames at home, put the printed text in them and. There was no security at St.