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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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Insights Into the Role of Communicators at the U.S. Department of Defense

PRSay

When conducting interviews, capturing raw footage in the field, lighting a shot or running a soundboard for Facebook Live, proper techniques remain important, the service members agreed. Knowing how to employ the right gear at the right time is key.

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How Social Media Is Paving a New Path for Journalism

Cision

More than half of journalists surveyed in Cision’s recent Social Journalism Study believe that they would not be able to carry out their work without turning to their social media accounts for help. billion of them accessing the site on a mobile device), Facebook is the world’s biggest social network. Read the full-length study today!

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This Is How You Reach Readers on Smartphones

PRSay

They’re looking at your Facebook status updates in line at the grocery — when it’s their turn to step up to the cash register. In the study, web visitors understood: 39 percent of what they read on a desktop screen. When the bureau printed the exact same web pages and left them in employees’ cubicles, accuracy increased by 42 percent.

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Why do social media marketers continue to invest in organic reach?

Communications Conversations

But, I still can’t help but get a bit twitchy when I see studies like the one recently offered by Social Media Examiner. In the study, they found that 51 percent of marketers plan on INCREASING their Facebook organic activities in 2019. Heck, you’re better off printing the tweet and posting it in the bathroom stall!

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Why Wordle Should Have You Rethinking Your Earned Media Strategy

Shift Communications

Earlier this year, Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism issued its annual Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions report. They’re looking to invest more in platforms like TikTok and Instagram and divest spend from Facebook and Twitter.

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