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ICON 2024 Recap: ABC’s Gio Benitez on Setbacks, Storytelling and the Power of ‘Yes’

PRSay

Benitez talked about how he started out and recounted watching the local Miami news as a child. That’s how I realized how important local news was,” Benitez said, adding that he knew there was a future for him in television, sharing the news and telling stories. “I Then he started at the station as an Emma L.

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4 trends in journalism and what they mean for the PR industry

Communications Conversations

dropped by 23% between 2008 and 2019. Trend #4: Local news has a capital shortage. Supporting quote: “There may not be enough philanthropic capital, even on the sidelines, to support the scope and depth of local news-gathering that our democracy requires.”. Impact: This comes to no surprise to anyone who follows local news.

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Book review: The Company and the Activist Going Beyond PR

Wadds Inc.

The chapter on communities is important reading for anyone involved in community engagement or consultation at a local level. Contributors include Scott Goldsten, director of Barack Obamas 2008 presidential campaign; McKenzie Ursch, of the climate activism group, Follow This; and Helen Fry, of the Good Law Project.

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Faces & Markets of PRGN: Toronto, Canada: Diversity is Our Strength

Bianchi Biz Blog

Online: 6,998,000 Print, Weekday: 1,563,000, Print, Weekend: 1,780,000) CTV : Canadas largest private broadcaster, it owns several local stations, a 24-hours news channel and has a national station as well. Its parent company, Bell Media, also owns a specialty business channel BNN, which supplies all business coverage to CTV.

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Daily newspaper circulation in the United States has fallen from its height of 61.8 million in 1974 to 24.3 million in 2020, according to Pew Research Center.

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Theory: Boomers in PR don’t trust influencers or influencer culture

Communications Conversations

newspapers have shed HALF their newsroom employees since 2008. And, we’re seeing more community and local newspapers close shop every day. Locally, here in Minnesota, we’ve seen a number of community newspapers close just this year. Less than half! According to Pew , U.S. And, if you’ve read the St.

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4 under-the-radar tips for finding a job on LinkedIn during COVID-19

Communications Conversations

With unemployment approaching 2008-09 levels (and some projecting Great Depression 30% levels), finding a job the next few months to a year is going to be something a lot of people are doing. Consider: Commenting on local professional super networkers posts. Even in our industry. Many agencies have asked employees to take pay cuts.

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