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How the Canadian Newspaper Industry Can Adapt to Changes

Business Wire

By Jean-Adrien Delicano, Media Relations Specialist, Business Wire Another month, another round of layoffs and “restructuring” in the Canadian media world. In March 2017, Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper company, announced 54 layoffs at the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province newsrooms.

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What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living

Sword and the Script

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Meet the Media: Mary Gannon, Editor-in-Chief of Fluid Power World & Senior Editor at Design World

Bianchi Biz Blog

I have been in journalism or PR for 25 years — I went to Boston University for journalism and upon graduation, I worked as a business reporter for a local daily newspaper on the outside of Cleveland. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I loved it and I particularly loved the stories about manufacturing.

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Getting hired and ahead in marketing and PR

Stephen Waddington

Danielle Whitfield, Media and Public Affairs Executive, Newcastle Airport @daniellemalvina Northern boomerang: brands to Newcastle Christian Cerisola was motivated to move into PR after working for a provincial newspaper and receiving poorly targeted pitches. He described breaking a story about a pornographic video pirating ring.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. PR leads with earned and owned media but also uses paid and shared media for amplification and targeting. And then there are areas of practice that have moved more rapidly.

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How to Prepare a PR Crisis Plan

Prohibition

Your employees and stakeholders could be made to look incompetent or immoral. For example, an employee leaks damaging information about your company. ? A major crisis. Claims of sexual harassment by an employee might trigger this response plan. A legal action taken against your business by an employee, client or customer.

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Theory: Boomers in PR don’t trust influencers or influencer culture

Communications Conversations

newspapers have shed HALF their newsroom employees since 2008. And, we’re seeing more community and local newspapers close shop every day. Locally, here in Minnesota, we’ve seen a number of community newspapers close just this year. Trust in the media is almost at an all-time low.