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Future of local news report is a grim read

Stephen Waddington

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. It is weakening community engagement and participation in local democracy. The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts. Rumours are commonplace.

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Future of local news report is a grim read

Wadds Inc.

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. It is weakening community engagement and participation in local democracy. The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts. Rumours are commonplace.

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

Stephen Waddington

A perfect storm of distribution and falling advertising revenue is a blow to the newsprint business after two decades of battling the shift from print to digital. In the first month of the crisis Facebook reported an increase of 50% in usage of its services. Print accounts for 80% of UK newspaper revenues and digital 20%.

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Depressed and depressing: the state of UK news media

Stephen Waddington

News media in pain Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital. Popular newspaper brands have suffered double digit falls in print circulation with the Daily Star (-18%), Daily Mirror (-13%), and Daily Express (-12%) hardest hit. Facebook and Google account for almost 60% of the online advertising market.

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13 stories about the future of news

Stephen Waddington

Print is down but digital is booming. Local news is most valued but is on life support. COVID-19 boosts news consumption across all mainstream media (except print) The COVIDA-19 crisis has substantially increased news consumption for mainstream media. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 is a challenging read.

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Journalism and News Trends for PR Pros

Cision

As mobile’s importance continues to grow for news delivery, Facebook developed an application, Instant Articles , for select publishers to publish their content on Facebook directly from their own content management systems and get a faster loading time in Facebook users’ news feeds. More data journalism.

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5 Tips For Launching A PR Program In APAC

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

When Spotify went hyperlocal last year with its debut campaign in India, it was able to reflect local culture, moods and social moments. A successful PR campaign must account for local customer insights and nuances and communicators may want to look at hyper-localization strategies. . This resulted in huge success.

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