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Newspapers remain a political campaigning tool: question everything you read

Stephen Waddington

Newspapers are about as useful as campaign leaflets as a form of electoral scrutiny. The reach of the print media is much diminished since the 1990s. Media oligarchy The right-wing newspapers in the UK are controlled by a small number of people. It's The Sun Wot Won It" appeared on the front page of The Sun on 11 April 1992.

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Faces & Markets of PRGN: Tokyo, Japan – Premier Destination for Business

Bianchi Biz Blog

Understanding Japan’s unique media landscape, where traditional platforms like print and TV coexist with digital trends, is pivotal. While online platforms wield influence, traditional media such as newspapers and television maintain substantial power. million in print and 3 million online subscribers.

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

MaccaPR

Has digital media – from Huffington Post , Google News and BuzzFeed to Kindle e-books, Twitter and (God help us) more than 8 million blogs – finally vanquished Print? Recent headlines provide brutal evidence: Condé Nast announced last December it was shutting down the print version of Self magazine to go online-only. Long Live Print”!

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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.

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

Sword and the Script

The founding HARO was founded by Peter Shankman in 2008 as a Facebook group for journalists in need of sources. 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.”

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What PR Success Looks Like In A Data-Driven World

PR Insiders

A store advertises its Memorial Day sale with a mammoth two-page newspaper spread and the store’s foot traffic either goes up or it doesn’t. If your interview with USA Today just appeared in print and online, you shouldn’t expect your phone to ring incessantly the next morning with people wanting to employ your services. Case closed.

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