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Facebook is local media

Stephen Waddington

Local Facebook pages and groups are replacing local media according to research from Braintree, Essex. By Dan Slee If there’s one thing I can tell you it’s that Facebook groups and pages in a local area are huge. No wonder that the small ads of newspapers have been gutted. Dan Slee shares his workings in this guest post.

Local 60
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Facebook is local media

Stephen Waddington

Facebook pages and groups are replacing local media according to research from Braintree, Essex. By Dan Slee If there’s one thing I can tell you it’s that Facebook groups and pages in a local area are huge. No wonder that the small ads of newspapers have been gutted. Overall, 15 per cent of content was local government-related.

Local 60
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Increasing Your Media Coverage Through Storytelling

PRSay

Which students at your local college or university are already making the world a better place, and how are they doing it? How is your local government benefitting the community? Sure, go after The New York Times as your boss asked, but don’t forget your local newspapers, TV and radio stations. If so, how?

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Comms Pros on Whether or Not their Organization Trusts the Media

Sword and the Script

We continue to benefit from responsible reporting by our local newspaper.”. Frankly, over the last few years, we have noticed the bias/slant in reporting has increased and the quality of reporting has gone down as turnover in local outlets has increased.”. We are a science-based organization and stick to fact-based media.”.

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Meet the Media: Cristina Commendatore, Editor in Chief of FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer. I covered everything from town politics, police, fire, education, town budgets, and local happenings in the community.

Meeting 59
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Behind the Headlines With Sharon Ward Keeble

Cision

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.

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Back to School Media Pitches

PR for Anyone

So for the next thirty days, in terms of your local media, newspaper, radio, television, you have a great opportunity to pitch back-to-school stories. .: Also, check out our next Get PR Famous upcoming live events at www.GetPRFamous.com and www.SpeakfromYourPowerLive.com. Transcript. It is the end of August.

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