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Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffett Sees Newspapers Dying

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Originally seen on Bloomberg Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is pessimistic on the newspaper industry at a time when public relations specialists are increasingly outnumbering journalists. For the news business, that would extend already sizable declines.

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Most Americans Consider Disinformation a Problem, Study Finds

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In surveys conducted in November, 73 percent of respondents perceived that disinformation — which the study defines as “deliberately misleading or biased information” — is widespread about the coronavirus vaccine. Overall, 64 percent trust local broadcast news and 63 percent trust local newspapers.)

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People Mistrust Media Reports About Climate Change, Study Finds

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In interviews aimed at understanding skepticism about climate change, the study found that many participants are suspicious of language that presents climate change as a crisis or an urgent threat. Networks and radio and newspapers and television — they’re all getting paid to tell me something,” one interviewee said.

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Media trends—which newspapers do readers trust most?

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A new study measuring “trust” among readers of their newspapers-of-choice from Brand Keys found The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal #1 among fifteen papers examined in this wave of research. The post Media trends—which newspapers do readers trust most? appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Print newspapers still drive best ad engagement in Canada

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Do newspapers still have ad power? They sure do in the Great White North, according to a new study from News Media Canada, which found that printed newspaper ads engage Canadians more than any other medium, print or digital.

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Pew Study Finds Americans Still Prefer Watching to Reading the News

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A new survey from Pew Research Center revealed that Americans prefer to watch the news rather than read it by a ratio of 47 to 34 percent, marking only a minimal change from 2016’s study, which tallied 46 percent of respondents as news-watchers to 35 percent as news-readers. Young adults prefer online platforms.

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Future of local news report is a grim read

Stephen Waddington

The Charitable Journalism Project studied seven regional communities in England and Wales through a mix of interviews and focus groups. It has given rise to so-called ghost newspapers produced by groups such as Newsquest and Reach. The result is a hollowing out of newsrooms, mergers, and closures.

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