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Newsprint in pain as COVID-19 bites, so what’s next?

Stephen Waddington

Newspaper circulation during the COVID-19 crisis has been hit by as much as a third by newsagents closing and a reduction in footfall on the high street, across travel hubs and in supermarkets. In the first month of the crisis Facebook reported an increase of 50% in usage of its services. Please come and join me. news industry?

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Who Were The PR Winners And Losers of 2017?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

After the election, most mainstream news organizations got busy reminding us why they’re needed with a renewed commitment to quality journalism. Best of all, journalism organizations like ProPublica and The Center For Public Integrity are enjoying unprecedented support. 2017 also brought a reckoning of sorts for Facebook.

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Social Media Intelligence Can Boost the Bottom Line

The Proactive Report

Rosetta Stone had always marketed their language courses to people who wanted to learn another language for practical reasons: doing business in another country or foreign travel. With the goal of creating a community they could listen to Rosetta Stone started a Facebook page and actively gathered a large number of their customers there.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” Take for example one of Business Week’s “2012 Year in Crisis PR” case studies: Facebook. SoMe = Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.

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150+ Guest Posting Sites That Will Actually Build Traffic (Analysis)

Buzzstream

In the image below, there are no real posts or engagement from followers on their Facebook since 2021. Facebook is the only social profile linked to from their site.) One easy way to evaluate this is to click on the site’s social profiles. You could also look at site comments, if enabled.

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International Conference Preview: 5 Questions With Journalist Laura Ling

PRSay

Former President Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea as a special envoy, leading to Ling and Lee’s release after 140 days in captivity. “It On the other hand, the big picture landscape of social media’s impact on journalism has also been a dark one. Inaccurate tweets can spread like wildfire with dangerous implications.

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Coronavirus Has Changed the Media — and Those Changes Are Here to Stay

PRSay

Not only do you have a way to get your content to its target audience during the pandemic, but news stations also have another way of interviewing your sources if they can’t meet in person or travel to a studio. Advertisers are flocking to bigger names like Google and Facebook, which may permanently change the news landscape.

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