Communications Conversations

AUGUST 27, 2019

It began as a way to standardize rules around editing based on mass media–specifically, mainstream print media. In the golden age of print, AP Style reigned supreme because editors and reporters used it–therefore, PR types like us were forced to learn it and use it. Think about the genesis of AP Style.

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Presspage

JANUARY 23, 2018

In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to become a full-time journalist blogger. He writes the blog Silicon Valley Watcher — reporting on the collision of media and technology. Press release! In 2006, Foremski published one of his most unforgettable blogs titled Die!

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

How did you get your start in journalism? I wanted to be a writer from an early age and after I completed a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course when I was 18, I started working for my local newspaper in Cheshire, England, where I lived. How did you get to this stage in your career? Rapid Fire Round.

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Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

She began her career as an aspiring newspaper reporter, securing an internship at the Atlanta Journal Constitution before becoming a daily reporter in Greenville, South Carolina, not far from her hometown. Pivoting from journalism to PR. I knew that journalism was changing,” she said. “I Sure, I can do that. ”.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I want to write stories that thoroughly explain what’s going on and how it impacts them.”. Or this response from Brad Kuvin at MetalForming & 3D Metal Printing : “I’ve spent my career focused on the idea that our stories should help our readers perform their jobs better. What is the takeaway?” I also look for timeliness.

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 30, 2023

I saw a column from Scott in a local newspaper and reached out to invite him to be a guest. My background is in radio and television journalism. I spent about the first 15 years of my career doing radio, television and also some print journalism over the years.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

I also write the occasional story for our Automotive Engineering and ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazines. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? And before that, I was an English and Journalism student at Bowling Green State University. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Critical Mention

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The rise in online news readers has given online newspaper, magazine and publishing companies more opportunities to monetize digital readership. This is also true of some important industry and academic journals. Early on in her career, she developed a passion for marketing, writing and anything within the communication field.

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Solo PR Pro

JULY 5, 2022

reviewing all the news alerts I have set up for my clients and their industry competitors and fielding urgent emails before devoting the rest of the morning to writing and other client work. I write or pitch media in the mornings, so I am only available beginning at noon daily. I try not to schedule any calls or meetings after 3 p.m.

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PRSay

MAY 8, 2018

In one class, we were asked to write a release based on a police report. Judy: I also went to UF, but studied journalism. I started out working for a small-town newspaper, and then for many years I was director of PR for Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. Judy: To create brochures, we used to have to go to a printing press.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten. Earned media still the most credible source of info Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. These lay out a pretty good picture of the PR landscape.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

How do you think your background in journalism will help you in this new role? How did you make the switch from journalism to PR? I ended 45 years in journalism when I retired as editor of the Austin American-Statesman in 2008, so it didn’t feel like a “switch” so much as completing one phase of my life. They all get it.

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David PR Group

OCTOBER 17, 2014

More than 15 years ago, I began telling people that the Internet might kill newspapers but that it won’t end journalism. Remember, journalism was created to educate, inform, and persuade people, and our nation’s first journalists were not writing to please advertisers.

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Cision

MAY 3, 2016

For example, is this a wire or a print story or both? How does your background in journalism give you an edge in managing media relations? In addition, they have been trained to write pieces that gain mass appeal. Read what they are writing about and react to it. Strategy is the key word in that question.

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NewsWhip

JULY 29, 2020

These tend to be old-school newspapers that have been around for decades, and have grown into national news organizations. The New York Times and The Washington Post are the most dominant of these publishers by a considerable distance, which makes sense due to their status as premier print institutions. . Local-national publishers.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The PR expert Maxim Behar shared his opinion for 24 Chasa newspaper about the rapidly changing communications and the application of modern media tools in business. In fact, I've been doing this for at least 40 years - first in journalism and then in business. 24.11.2020. And there is not much difference.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

Think Netflix + The Wall Street Journal (and a bunch of others here ). Meanwhile, print circulation numbers among the nation’s largest newspapers are plummeting. Meanwhile, print circulation numbers among the nation’s largest newspapers are plummeting. I keep wincing after every sentence I write.

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

Today, USA Today ranks first in combined print and digital circulation, underlying the importance of this digital transformation for newsrooms around the world. The question they always come back to when writing a story is, what is going to resonate with my readers? Q: What’s the biggest thing you need from PR pros? “If

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The Resolution Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

Was The Wall Street Journal categorised as an international title or a national newspaper? If you have a DA column for example, simply enter the number in the box, no need to write DA: 73 in the box. But if you have multiple people working on the PR data, are they being consistent in their categorisation?

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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

Although the trio’s conversation focused on the state of journalism in the District, the obstacles and opportunities they discussed not only apply to most news markets, they also impact their PR counterparts. Washington’s not really unique – it’s like any town with a myriad of local stories,” writes Christine. “So Take photographs.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

has been exploring in her work on women in journalism. The web was the most significant shift in publishing since the invention of the printing press in the 15th Century. In junior roles media relations (58%) and social media relations (45%) make up the top three most commonly undertaken tasks after writing.

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Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 17, 2014

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I’m a big devotee of reading the hard copy print edition of my local newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. And, it also includes some syndicated content from the Wall Street Journal, which I really enjoy. And, like many, I particularly enjoy the Sunday edition.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? According to Search Engine Journal, SEO leads have a 14.6 100, 500, maybe 1,000? percent close rate.

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Bad Pitch Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I am writing to you from 35,000 feet where American and something badly branded as Gogo Inflight has granted me 12 buck access to the Internet. Print outlets have been dying, okay let''s call it changing, for a while. I laughed (out loud) earlier this year when writing to compliment Tom Friedman.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Our guest has had a remarkable career beginning as a newspaper correspondent. Then at a certain point, I parted ways with journalism. I still think of this quote from Winston Churchill: "One can achieve many things with journalism, but one must know when to leave it". Kirill Asenov writes “One question gives me no peace.

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Cision

JUNE 24, 2016

In this recap of the Cision Connects event series, we dig into how The Washington Post, one of the top newspapers in the U.S., While social media is used daily by Washington Post journalists and editors, a classic approach to journalism still remains effective today as well. is keeping up with the ever-changing media landscape.

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NewsWhip

APRIL 28, 2021

So we talk about circulation of a magazine, let’s say, so the circulation is how many are printed and put into newsagents. So they used to be a kind of, this was the circulation, and then on average two to four people might read that newspaper, that magazine. What do they do, and what jobs do they have? Paul: Fascinating.

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Maxim Behar

MARCH 6, 2022

And then when I came back, I started Standard Daily as one of the first, if not the first private newspapers in Bulgaria, in my native country Bulgaria where I live. Remember what Winston Churchill said a long time ago that you can achieve a lot of things with journalism, but you must know when to quit. And it took a couple of months.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

First, Writing Skills. No matter what you’ve heard about all that sexy social media stuff, you still need to know how to write in PR. Ideally, you majored in Journalism (or English) – or your PR or Communications program had a heavy concentration of writing-related courses. Second, Internship Experience.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

With print becoming less important to audiences, telling stories in more visual ways is critical – and public relations professionals can help. I can write three articles in the amount of time I can shoot a video.”. Many of those images show up in magazines, newspapers and blogs, she says. Use Multimedia to Tell a Better Story.

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PRSay

JULY 31, 2019

For a reporter who’s made a career out of investigative journalism, it’s clear that Bob Woodward understands what makes a compelling narrative and how to get the “best obtainable version of the truth.”. Journalism is more cerebral than people believe,” he told PRsay via phone from Washington, D.C. Well, that’s not good.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you’re a corporate communications or public relations executive in Minnesota, the status of our state’s largest newspaper – the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune , with more than 250 editors and reporters – is always of intense interest. Paul Business Journal, Twin Cities Business, Minnesota Business, MinnPost and more? "We

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

If you read an article about an individual or organisation in your favourite magazine or newspaper you’re likely to view it far more favourably than if you heard the information direct. At the same time, the ability to print fast and cheaply bought about a concurrent revolution. As a result print circulation has fallen dramatically.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s also an issue of writing style. In To Be Clear: A Style Guide for Business Writing author Philip Collins says business writing has become dreary, boring, and incomprehensible, with jargon, clichés, and nonsense. The UK’s regional print daily newspapers saw circulations fall by an average of 18% in the second half of 2020.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

You’ll need to speak their language to recruit them, and veteran newspaper reporters don’t necessarily know what “ map against your KPIs ” means. ” To many, injecting a CTA into a piece of writing is to sully the art form. Content marketers never make content for content’s sake. ” Why?

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. The printing press emerged around 600 years ago, but printed media technically existed for thousands of years.

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