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How Has Social Media Disrupted Public Relations

5W PR

For several years now, the mainstream news channels, including newspapers and TV broadcasts, are no longer the main industries for breaking news stories – especially if it means keeping up with any new developments to those stories in real-time. This is no longer the case. Disruption in Relationships. Deadlines in the Blink of an Eye.

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Social Media for Healthcare: What’s The Potential?

Melissa Agnes

The other day I had a conversation with someone who made a statement about the healthcare industry not needing to be on social media because no one cares about the nurses’ birthdays and little useless memes (I’m SOOO paraphrasing here!). What’s the point of social media for healthcare?

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

Back then, when we first published the “Public Relations Handbook,” reaching out to the media was relatively straightforward for PR professionals. There were newspapers, magazines, wire services, trade publications, TV and radio. Daily newspaper circulation in the United States has fallen from its height of 61.8

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Why Tech Is Important To PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR firms have withstood the rise of many possible “PR killers” including email marketing, digital advertising, and social media, often integrating or using those disciplines to grow their business or even make earned media more effective. Yes, social media changed PR. That’s simply not the case.

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Royal Family puts Martin Bashir interview aside to embrace BBC and social media, but told to be wary of TikTok

Mark My Words

The Queen’s death has given the core Royal Family members an opportunity to “reset” relations with a voracious media and explore new methods of communicating directly with the wider public, insiders say. The royals are in a battle to stay relevant so they have to use social media.”

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The State of Journalism in 2023, according to Muck Rack

Landis PR

They also plan to spend more time on YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok, indicating the growing importance of these platforms for media outreach. Journalists plan to spend more time on YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok This finding highlights the growing importance of video content and social media platforms for media outreach.

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Theory: Boomers in PR don’t trust influencers or influencer culture

Communications Conversations

newspapers have shed HALF their newsroom employees since 2008. And, we’re seeing more community and local newspapers close shop every day. Locally, here in Minnesota, we’ve seen a number of community newspapers close just this year. Paul Pioneer Press recently, you can see that newspaper is on its last legs.