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Fixing the broken web

Stephen Waddington

A new #FuturePRoof guide highlights the ills of the web. It’s the start of an important conversation about how communicators tackle disinformation and fix the broken web. The great hope of the world wide web in 1989 was that it would democratise the publication and sharing of information.

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Pew Study Finds Americans Still Prefer Watching to Reading the News

PRSay

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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This Is How You Reach Readers on Smartphones

PRSay

Would you like to learn more techniques for getting the word out to mobile web visitors? If so, then join PRSA and Ann Wylie at Reach Readers Online our mobile-web-writing workshop, starting Oct. You’ll master a four-part system for writing compelling web content that overcomes the obstacles of reading on the small screen.

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How Long Should Your Online Paragraphs Be?

PRSay

Short paragraphs get more than twice the attention online, according to The Poynter Institute’s Eyetrack III study. What’s surprising about this study is how the Poynter Institute — the think tank of how we write in print and online — defines an short online paragraph: Short paragraphs: 1 or 2 sentences long.

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3 Cases Studies of Augmented Reality in B2B Marketing [UML]

Sword and the Script

This week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML] reviews three case studies of AR in B2B organizations. The case study says, “Cisco worked with Kaon Interactive to develop a visually engaging 3D interactive product catalogue…to give buyers an even more immersive and detailed experience.” (sic). Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Video.

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Depressed and depressing: the state of UK news media

Stephen Waddington

News media in pain Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital. Popular newspaper brands have suffered double digit falls in print circulation with the Daily Star (-18%), Daily Mirror (-13%), and Daily Express (-12%) hardest hit. Facebook and Google account for almost 60% of the online advertising market.

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PR Briefing: Summarizing 3 Recent Public Relations Studies

Sword and the Script

That’s a critical takeaway from one of the studies covered below. To that end, here are the summaries to three public relations studies. It’s the idea that when people need something, they were increasingly turning got the web rather than print for answers – and search engines were helping them sort out the results.

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