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How the Associated Press Fights Fake News on Facebook…and Everywhere Else

Cision

What started as a fact-checking mission to validate information presented by newsmakers, particularly elected officials’ campaign ads, speeches, and debates, has migrated into an organization-wide effort to verify reported or shared news stories that appear to have bad information, according to Eric Carvin, AP’s social media editor.

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A day in the life of one solo PR/social media consultant (and adjunct professor)

Communications Conversations

Over the last five years, we’ve created a social media playbook document that makes this a lot easier! Start research and writing a byline for my Trustmark client. Much of the work I do for them revolves around B2B media relations with HR publications, podcasts and blogs. .: Thomas for class. Class starts!

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How Niche Social Media Platforms Like Quora Can Be Valuable for PR

Cision

After all, Obama is synonymous with social media savvy – and Quora is not a social platform that has been embraced by the masses. Similarly, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about Lindsay Graham’s use of the app Sidewire , a politics-only social media platform described as “ Twitter for politics.”

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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

Thanks to the social media revolution, we are in the afterlife. An admittedly arbitrary but still plausibly precise date pinpointing the press release’s death might be November 6, 2007 — the day when Facebook launched its then vastly obscure, and today vastly dominant, Facebook Pages. And there is no coming back.

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How the Associated Press Fights Fake News on Facebook…and Everywhere Else

Beyond PR

What started as a fact-checking mission to validate information presented by newsmakers, particularly elected officials’ campaign ads, speeches, and debates, has migrated into an organization-wide effort to verify reported or shared news stories that appear to have bad information, according to Eric Carvin, AP’s social media editor.

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What Lies Ahead for Public Relations in 2018?

PRSay

For much of the past decade, authors of articles such as this one predicted changes in how content would be created and disseminated given the continued emergence of social and other digital-media platforms. In 2018, discussions about the future for PR and communications pros will likely include the topic of robots.

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Creating, Distributing, & Amplifying Your Press Release

Cision

I write a lot here about the importance of press releases , as well as how to write them , but don’t get it twisted: there’s far more to a successful press release than simply writing and publishing one. But I’ve already covered writing killer headlines , make-’em-move calls to action and juicy quotes. Distribution.