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How Public Relations Can Fight Fake News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

By attacking the advertising model that supports sites like World News Daily Report and NewsBuzzDaily, they might help slow the viral spread of false, defamatory, and even dangerous stories. Storytelling hasn’t been done through mass media channels for a good while, but in the post-factual universe, communicators need to adapt.

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6 Awesome Examples of How To Leverage Corporate History in Brand Storytelling

MaccaPR

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. From legacy videos and anniversary books to corporate birthday events and digital archives, what follows are five ways smart brands have leveraged their company histories in brand storytelling. Legos' Corporate History Video.

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Brand Strength and the Political Media War

Mark My Words

The Guardian’s Data Blog recently compared Russell Brand’s reach with that of the newspaper attempting to discredit him, The Sun. Where in years gone by the favour of The Sun newspaper was carefully coveted by the political class, today falling foul of the redtop is of little concern to minor celebrities. for a long time.

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If You Think Your Audience Is an Algorithm, You’re Doing it Wrong

David PR Group

For example, when writing for the general “newspaper-reading” public, you need to make sure your text is crafted at no more than an eleventh-grade reading level. Storytelling and compelling visuals, as well as attention-getting video, all need to be considered as we weave our marketing tales.

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Behind the Headlines With Dan Gregory

Cision

Storytelling, while central to PR strategies, is a delicate process. Smaller newsroom budgets have resulted in more website space being devoted to clickbait, and TV news broadcasts relying on syndicated stories and viral videos. My daily newspaper of choice is…The Washington Post. My biggest pet peeve is…live tweeting speeches.

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#20: Building the bridge between infrastructure and data-driven media intelligence

NewsWhip

Meanwhile, when you have a developer doing the extensive work and research of a thousand pages of a permit application, an opponent and activist or someone who just doesn’t totally understand it because they didn’t read 500 pages of text, they only need 280 characters of a Tweet to generate a 500 word newspaper article.

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PR Winners: The Best Stories of 2018

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Then the UK chain cooked up an extraordinary ad that ran in two daily newspapers. After the manager of a Philadelphia Starbucks called the police on two African-American customers who took a table before ordering anything, the video of their arrest went viral, and the brand had a grande crisis in the making.

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