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What Journalists Want: How to Write Better Press Releases

PRSay

We’re still employing the “inverted pyramid” of the printing press to compose them, we’re still using them as corporate equivalent of vanity plates for our websites, and we’re still sending them to journalists’ inboxes with a deep, self-serving hope they will magically turn into detailed coverage of our companies.

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Out-of-Work Writing Talent Means Huge Opportunity for Brands

PR 20/20

Nonmedia companies, who in some cases had robust print custom magazines, began to lay off portions of their content teams. In many cases, the freelancers “used” to be staff, but now only write when there is overflow (which there usually isn’t at a time like this).

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S&T Live Recap: Tapping Into Your Childhood Creativity to Find Your Muse Today

PRSay

The monthly livestream on the PRSA LinkedIn page features discussions with the publication’s contributors and delves deeper into the topics of their articles. Farmer advocates that PR people use songwriting techniques when writing press releases or other communications material: find a hook, a chorus, a good beat and the right length.

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Meet the Media: Madeleine Winer, Editor of AftermarketNews

Bianchi Biz Blog

I am in charge of gathering news for our daily newsletter, hosting and producing podcasts, covering events and writing original content for our monthly print magazine and daily newsletter, among other projects. I’m working on a legislative story right now that has been fun and challenging to write.

Meeting 95
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LinkedIn Social Selling Training & Digital Marketing Workshop Debuts

wiredPRworks

On March 10 and 11, I'll be teaching an immersive two-day digital marketing, LinkedIn training and social selling skills workshop. Digital Marketing, LinkedIn Training and Social Selling Workshop in Chicago. LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook accounts, basic working knowledge of social media. Print and Digital Advertising.

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AP Style: How relevant is it in 2019?

Communications Conversations

That was actually close to the reaction I got from friends and colleagues on a LinkedIn post where I shared this news a few weeks ago. It began as a way to standardize rules around editing based on mass media–specifically, mainstream print media. Let’s go back and look at my LinkedIn post. AUDIBLE GASP!

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Meet the Media: Charles Morris, Senior Editor at CHARGED EVS

Bianchi Biz Blog

I am the senior editor at Charged – I write daily blog posts, as well as articles for the print magazines, and do copy editing. I’m also a contributing writer for EVannex – I write a weekly blog post. If I have to spend time correcting typos on every post, I might as well write it myself.

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