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Nonprofit Local News Gains Steam

PRSay

It was refreshing to hear Todd’s optimistic vision for a future in which a more independent news media will regain the public’s trust and return to covering local communities with a sense of shared values. At the same time, however, the advertising revenue that local news organizations have long counted on has continued to drop.

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Executing An Effective Non-Profit PR Strategy

The Hoyt Organization

million nonprofits registered with the IRS. With so many organizations competing for attention and donations, it’s crucial for your nonprofit organization to have an effective PR strategy in place. Here are seven steps for executing an effective nonprofit PR strategy. In the US alone, there are over 1.8

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Increasing Your Media Coverage Through Storytelling

PRSay

Whether you serve a large corporation, small nonprofit, major research university or municipal government, at some point your boss has probably said, “We need more media attention. Having worked in communications for a top-tier university, a regional nonprofit foundation and as a consultant, I’ve heard this question myself. If so, how?

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Communicators Can Help Americans Vote in 2020

PRSay

3, Americans will cast their votes for President and for state and local candidates. Communicators have “a lot of great partners out there” who can help provide their employees with local voting information, said panelist Kelly Mason, director of corporate communications at Levi Strauss & Co.,

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3 Essential PR Trends to Monitor in the New Year and Decade

PRSay

When we began this decade, many local newspapers had at least 10 more pages of non-syndicated content than they do today. There is also an increasing number of micro publications that have smaller distributions, but are highly specific in nature and often very receptive to thought leadership and related industry news.

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S&T Live Recap: Melissa Vela-Williamson, APR, on Building a Professional Network

PRSay

Last year, she had the chance to support the local humane society’s 70th-anniversary campaign, along with her firm MVW Communications in San Antonio, Texas. During a PR internship, the student had helped arrange a newspaper story about a nonprofit that helped people with missing limbs learn to waterski.

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Meet the Media: Vesna Brajkovic, Managing Editor of Heavy Duty Trucking & TruckingInfo.com

Bianchi Biz Blog

By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper. From there I went on to freelance for community newspapers around Milwaukee, and got a part-time job at a business-to-business publisher covering aviation for three sister magazines. I haven’t looked back since.

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