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Traditional Media: From Endangered To Extinct

Maxim Behar

In 1999, in an interview with Bulgarian online media expert Justin Toms, I declared that print newspapers would be gone by 2025. Max, you’re going against your livelihood — you started in the press, with the printing press and newspaper ink! The big issue with newspapers is that no one can fund them anymore.

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How an underground high school newspaper led to a 10+ year blog

Communications Conversations

Last Saturday, there was a wonderful article in the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about groups of kids who had started neighborhood newspapers during the pandemic. And second, school newspapers are in my blood. First, let’s talk about this underground student newspaper, because it’s an interesting story.

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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? Did you hear that interview on the radio or on a podcast? Think about TV interviews as just one example. Not that long ago, TV producers wanted you in their studio for an interview, which meant you were faced with the time and expense of traveling.

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Can Print Still Flourish in The Age of Digital? An Interview with Star Tribune Magazine’s Sue Campbell

MaccaPR

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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Future of local news report is a grim read

Stephen Waddington

The Charitable Journalism Project studied seven regional communities in England and Wales through a mix of interviews and focus groups. Advertising has shifted to internet mediated platforms such as Google and Facebook, and print sales have declined. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts.

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Jab, Jab, Left Hook: Media Interview Preparation Ronda Rousey Style

Polaris

It wasn’t until I read her recently released autobiography, My Fight/Your Fight, that I learned more about her and her instincts inside and outside the cage (including her approach to media interview preparation ). Ronda Rousey Trains for Media Interviews the Same Way She Tackles A Fight. I watched interviews she gave.

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21 things that defined PR agency life before the web (you won’t believe no #5)

Stephen Waddington

The phone has become an underused tool Double spaced press releases for edits and notes Printing at a dedicated workstation from disk, documents shared via hard copy Sharing a dial-up modem and email address between the whole office Photocopying, posting and faxing press releases Printing and collating press kits for an event An embargo was an embargo (..)

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