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Is Media Relations Dead?

Bianchi Biz Blog

Is media relations dead? In fact, a recent article in the BusinessWire Blog called Media Outlet Availability on PR Efforts , by Christopher S. Penn, Chief Data Scientist with TrustInsights.ai, cites some revealing statistics about the shrinking number of media outlets and the challenge for PR and media relations.

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Props Can Help a Message Sink In, or Sink the Message

PRSay

When I was director of media relations in the Reagan White House in 1983 and 1984, the correspondence unit had a standing assignment to find letters the president could use to help illustrate issues of interest. He later tweeted a video of his entrance with the caption: “ Entering Twitter HQ — let that sink in! ”. Powell’s U.N.

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7 Best Ways to Perform Media Monitoring of Your Press Release (+ benefits)

Newsfile

Media monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing a variety of media channels to discover mentions, coverage and any other discussions related to a certain topic or company. Media channels can include newspapers, magazines, television, radio, online news outlets, blogs, and social media platforms.

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2 Enduring Strategies for These Content-Saturated Times

PRSay

Here are some quick reminders of the techniques that were supposed to “change everything” just during my short career: 2006 — “Bypass the media,” was the watchcry. You could optimize a news release, and Google News indexed it just the same as an article from a real newspaper!

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Press Release Newswire Services – Worth The Cost?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For a fee, any organization can upload their press release to a newswire service that distributes it directly to news organizations, much like the original news agencies like Associated Press fed reports to newspapers in the early days of electronic journalism.

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How Securing Media Coverage Brings Greater Value Than Ever

PR Insiders

Did you read that newspaper article in print or on your phone? It’s no secret, of course, that the media landscape has changed drastically over the years – and the changes keep coming at a pace that sometimes makes us all dizzy! Think about how you get information these days. Did you hear that interview on the radio or on a podcast?

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Facebook’s Current Woes Symptomatic of Raging Content Saturation

PRSay

Here are some quick reminders of the new techniques that were supposed to “change everything” just during my short career: • 2006 — “Bypass the media” was the watch cry. You could optimize a news release, and Google News indexed it just the same as an article from a real newspaper!