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Behind the Headlines With Dan Gregory

Cision

Storytelling, while central to PR strategies, is a delicate process. My first position was at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a foreign policy and international security think tank. As a communication professional surrounded by policy experts, I wasn’t immediately sure how I could contribute.

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Earned Media Rising Podcast With Cision CMO, Chris Lynch

Cision

Right, it still makes a lot of sense because those are people who are natural storytellers and having great storytelling capability, I think, will be a perennial thing and should always be something that’s always there for comms. Steve Barrett: We’ve all seen those go viral haven’t we?

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

NewsWhip

Infrastructure is a pillar of today’s society but it is also a major topic at the center of policy and public debate. People like my colleague, Jonathan Scharff, who’s one of the smartest people I know and real infrastructure policy expert. 18: The future of storytelling in healthcare communications. Brett Lofgren.

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Truth vs. Disinformation: How to Win

Scott Public Relations

It’s not policy, photogenic faces, or experience that will inspire voters to do what it takes to turn this country around. That’s the kind of communication that goes viral. Yes, we know storytelling has been a communications mantra for some time. For too long, we’ve believed that somehow, “Truth Will Win Out”. Here we go again.

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Wendy Glavin and CommPRO Report on the Livestream: Breaking Down the State of the Media in 2017

Cision

Scale for scale’s sake creates undifferentiated viral clones, where you die by the algorithms. I’m hard-pressed to think of any issue on the corporate side which has risen to the level of a public policy issue where you couldn’t have found the canary in the coal mine first. Storytelling vs. Brand Newsrooms.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

If not religious in nature, then it could be a written form of word-of-mouth storytelling as many early pictorial depictions tended to be. For example, an age group in a workplace might feel one company policy benefits another age group and actively disadvantages them. It can also include single issues and personal issues.

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