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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

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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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MediaPulse | A Weekly Media Round-Up

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Forbes ), GM to invest $1 billion to technical center in Warren, Michigan ( USA Today ) McClatchy starts to unveil redesigns to print and digital outlets that will include all 26 papers by 2016 ( NetNewsCheck ) and Microsoft offers more details on the seven editions of Windows 10 launching this summer ( Windows Blog ).

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Brand conversations during COVID-19

Stephen Waddington

Most outdoor, experiential, events, meetings and print simply don’t work. You can publish beautiful branded content via Instagram and Facebook. Businesses in lockdown The lockdown has had a dramatic impact on entertainment, events, retail, travel and transport. It’s running a reduced service for essential travel online.

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Behind the Headlines With Lauren Kaufman

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After a short stint at a large NYC agency on its agricultural product PR team, I actually found my true calling by chance when I answered an ad in The New York Times for a job at Spring O’Brien, an agency that specializes in travel and tourism PR. What are some of the biggest PR challenges travel and lifestyle brands face?

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Should you feel ashamed for reading the hard copy newspaper?

Communications Conversations

Twitter and Facebook are the new newsfeeds. Those that poo-poo print newspapers claim they can get their news elsewhere on the web. For me, that means exploring the travel section each Sunday. Now, I know the print newspaper has its downsides. much of that news is “old” for many thanks to Twitter and Facebook.

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The Challenges for Health Care Communicators as a New Normal Emerges From the COVID-19 Crisis

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It includes TV and radio spots, print ads, billboards, targeted digital ads, social media posts and email messages. Intermountain Healthcare also launched a Facebook campaign that, at first, had a more general message. They include the clinical staffs who have volunteered to travel and work in the country’s hardest-hit areas.