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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Doug Levy

Solo PR Pro

He was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered and Morning Edition and ended up as an intern in NPR’s Washington Bureau a year later, gaining extensive industry experience and honing his writing skills. After college, Doug was a typical journalism nomad, working in newsrooms in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.

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AP Style: How relevant is it in 2019?

Communications Conversations

Now, you could say a lot of that digital media time is spent consuming traditional news media showing up in online and social channels (and you might be right), but another big piece of that is merely social content that is definitely not ruled by the AP Style Handbook. Posts from friends (full of typos and poor grammar).

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

Chris Rivera: Well, Ben, the unfortunate part is when I went to college, I studied technical writing. By the way, for anyone that doesn’t know what technical writing is, don’t worry. And worst-case scenario, you obviously don’t want to be on the negative end of a Wall Street Journal story. Ben: Oh, wow.

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WaddsCon: February wrap-up, March topics and speakers

Stephen Waddington

Then you should get out the company handbook or whatever holds the mission statements and values and again use any direct or indirect channel, to ask how leaders can better demonstrate company values and behaviours. Use your Yammer, Slack etc to post internally and express how you feel and offer solutions and suggestions.

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How to Get On in New Communications: Be Nice

ZudePR

He is also the author of Content Chemistry, The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing. . Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author (Everybody Writes), keynote speaker, and the world’s first chief content officer (MarketingProfs). “Writing makes me aware. Start a blog because you love to write.

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How To Create An Editorial Strategy for Your Blog: Part Two

Journalistics

Before you write a word of your editorial strategy, I want to make sure you know what your editorial strategy should be, and that we are on the same page for why you should have one. Who do you write for? What do similar blogs write about and how will your blog be similar or different? What drives you to write each post?

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How To Create An Editorial Strategy for Your Blog: Part Two

Journalistics

Before you write a word of your editorial strategy, I want to make sure you know what your editorial strategy should be, and that we are on the same page for why you should have one. Who do you write for? What do similar blogs write about and how will your blog be similar or different? What drives you to write each post?