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PR Insights: Understanding Journalists

Champion Communications

Journalism and PR come hand-in-hand, with professionals in both industries leaning on each other to build credibility and trust with their audiences. Each year Muck Rack puts together their State of Journalism and State of PR Reports to uncover any changes in the industries. Building relationships with journalists is a key part of PR.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients?

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13 PR Blogs You Should Be Reading This Year

Hubspot

One of my first jobs out of college was working as an entry-level PR associate. Like most recent grads without any real industry experience, I'd spend my days blasting out the same artless, impersonal pitch to any journalist who had ever covered a beat even vaguely adjacent to one of our client's products.

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500+ Journalists Agree: These Are the Worst PR Tactics in 2019

Hubspot

Spend any amount of time searching the hashtag #PRFail on Twitter and you won't struggle to find journalists lamenting about all of the bad PR pitches they received this week. The relationship between journalists and PR professionals is complicated. A message to all PR practitioners: stop doing this. Image Source.

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Exploit the hours employees spend on social media

Biznology

When Dan Krueger and I send out our Gerris Corp influencer marketing emails, we time the mail-merged blast for around nine on the morning, East Coast time on a Tuesday. According to Putting Downtime to Work , a new report from Bambu by Sprout Social , we’re geniuses: Seven in ten employees use social media at work.

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The age of overreliance on marketing technology and what you should do

ClickZ

Lastly, contemplate a blast from the past – like letting the marketing, creative, and communications professionals help formulate a strategy and approach that might resonate with prospects. Join the conversation with us on LinkedIn and Twitter. Back to the future. Set aside technology as the over-weighted means of solution.

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Video Pitching: Making Media Relations Human Again

Vidyard

Journalists are inundated with a constant flood of pitches and press releases—and, as the Hustle’s Kendall Baker writes in his open letter to PR professionals , “they all suck.” What’s a savvy PR person to do? I made this video and pushed it all across my Twitter and LinkedIn. “Some are fine.