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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. public relations specialists for every news reporter Source: U.S. public relations specialists for every news reporter Source: U.S.

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Social Media Overtakes Print Newspapers as News Source

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For the first time, social media has surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans, Pew Research Center finds. adults said they often get news from social media, compared to 16 percent from print newspapers. Television remains the most popular way Americans receive news, though its use has fallen since 2016.

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The #PRStudChat Community Discusses PR, Twitter & Politics on Tuesday, October 11th

Deirdre Breakenridge

With the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign being coined “The Twitter Election” there is no question that Twitter is topical. On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at 8:30 p.m. There is a lot to learn (and will be learned) from this mainstream news channel.

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How Public Relations Can Fight Fake News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Fake content has been around as long as the internet, but as a culture, we didn’t take it so seriously until after the 2016 election. PR pros do this anyway, of course, but for any of us, now is not the time to let our newspaper subscription lapse, or to cut back on your digital content subscriptions. Support legitimate media.

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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. Since 2016, audio has seen an increase in popularity.

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PRSA’s Kansas City Chapter Starts Scholarship Fund to Carry On Legacy of Trailblazer, Dr. Inez Y. Kaiser

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Her columns “Hints for Homemakers” and “Fashion and Otherwise” were published in Black newspapers across the country, and she was a guest contributor for The Kansas City Star ’s opinion column “As I See It.”. Encouraged by a newspaper editor, she decided to pursue a career in public relations. She died in 2016 at age 98.

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Lessons from the UK’s top media and public relations blogger

Stephen Waddington

Marcel Klebba was named media and public relations blogger of the year at the Vuelio blog awards on Friday at a glitzy ceremony in London. The inspirational public relations graduate started blogging in September 2016 as a final year student at Westminster University. I read newspapers, magazines, blogs, listen to podcasts.

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