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Social Media Overtakes Print Newspapers as News Source

PRSay

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

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Who Were The PR Winners And Losers of 2017?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Samantha Guthrie and Hota Kotb announced Lauer’s sudden departure with grace and poignancy – in real time, on live television. What’s more, media credibility has actually increased over 2016. Ditto the national newspapers; both The Washington Post and The New York Times broke subscription records. Mainstream media.

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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

Unless a television channel needs TV footage or some personal presence is essential, traditional media do not dispatch reporters to check out the situation on the ground anymore. Whether you are the end reader or reporting major news for tomorrow’s newspaper doesn’t matter. There’s an earthquake?

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The Power of the African-American Audience

Beyond PR

Census Bureau reported that between 2015 and 2016, the African-American population grew by 1.2 population , spending more time with television, magazines and radio. In fact, 52 percent read magazines and 59 percent have favorable views of advertisers in African-American newspapers. Last year, the U.S. percent to reach 46.8

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Independence: The Source of Our Integrity, Our Power and Influence

PRSay

would be comfortable reading about our actions, decisions and discussions on the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper, on television or in social media. In 2016, he was the first BEPS member to be given Member Emeritus status by the PRSA Board of Directors. Our families (your mother, children?)

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The Best Journalism Movies

Landis PR

All the President’s Men (1976) 1977 Academy Award Winner I was in grade school on summer break in 1973, which is when the Watergate hearings were televised. Murrow, during the peak of his career during the early days of televised news. Read on and hit play on any of these gems when you have the chance.