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Writing For Journalism And Writing For PR: How They Differ

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Whether it was through classes, writing for the school newspaper , or my personal blogs, my writing involved reporting facts, interviewing subjects, and taking down their quotes. Here’s a useful exercise for PR people: go back to the first things you wrote in PR and see if they can be trimmed. Compare then and now.

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Meet the Media: Jason Cannon, Chief Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal

Bianchi Biz Blog

Team USA notched the best written test score in their division and Team Japan – a six-time winner of the Grand Prix – needed a win in the practical exercise to squeak out first place overall. I was the news editor of a small daily newspaper in Alabama. Metro weekly newspaper that no longer exists.

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Meet the Media: Kurt Nagl, Manufacturing Reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business

Bianchi Biz Blog

My first non-school newspaper gig was at the China Daily in 2013. Exercising, often reading newspapers and satire, playing guitar and curating my Spotify playlists. Well, counting the good old Cub News at UDJ, more than a decade (woah, really?!) I started in high school and never stopped.

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Behind the Headlines With Stuart Pfeifer

Cision

In this interview, Stuart discusses his motives for making the switch, the value of a news background and the intersection of journalism and PR. But the newspaper climate has changed. I’m confident that the skills I developed in more than two decades as a newspaper reporter will serve our clients well.

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PR Pros Take On A President

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

. “PR Flacks May Be the Media’s Secret Weapon” by David Uberti outlines the recent confrontations between Trump and two of his favorite targets, CNN (his “fake news” scapegoat) and the newspaper he calls the “failing” New York Times.

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Can Print Still Flourish in The Age of Digital? An Interview with Star Tribune Magazine’s Sue Campbell

MaccaPR

But the evocatively-titled website Newspaper Death Watch continues to track newspapers, from Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to the Tampa Tribune, that have closed in a column headed “R.I.P.”. Mike recognizes that newspapers that pulled away from their daily print publishing were hurt by it. And do you read books?

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9 Blogs To Make You PR-Smart

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

This brain exercise is touted as “a foolproof way to come up with new solutions and original ideas.” And it also features interviews with reporters to help readers gain a better understanding of how this kind of reporting impacts them. ” Learn to play here. Hmm, you might say, Buzzfeed? Smart PR people take note.

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