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Pitching Kit: Cision’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide PR Kit

Cision

Major lifestyle magazines and newspapers publish holiday gift guides to make it easy for shoppers to find the perfect gift. “If you want your pitch to be noticed in a flood of product releases, know when to send it,” writes Anna Marevska in our recent blog post How to Pitch Holiday Gift Guide Editors. News: 8/24/2016.

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How the Associated Press Fights Fake News on Facebook…and Everywhere Else

Cision

Carvin is the point person in a partnership that began in December 2016 between the AP and Facebook that illustrates some of the efforts the AP is undertaking to scrub misinformation from readers’ views. Fake news is not strictly new,” Carvin said. In this case, Carvin uses “everyone” to mean both journalists and the public.

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Behind the Headlines With Sharon Ward Keeble

Cision

I wanted to be a writer from an early age and after I completed a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course when I was 18, I started working for my local newspaper in Cheshire, England, where I lived. When you start to become blasé and complacent about your writing, that’s when you stop doing such a good job.

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Targeting for Investor Relations: How Distributing News to the Right Audience Can Help Your Company’s Share Price

Cision

According to our 2016 Shareholder Confidence 365 Study , more than 60 percent of institutional investors claim they receive emails directly from companies they already are interested in, but another 30 percent receive their news primarily from news portals, including Bloomberg and Morningstar. So what do journalists have to do with that?

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House of Style: Q-and-A With AP Stylebook Editor Paula Froke

PRSay

Froke, who is based in Philadelphia, has been the Stylebook’s lead editor since 2016 and a member of the Stylebook team since 2013; she has worked for The Associated Press in various editorial roles since 1984. Writing in AP style means they’re speaking the language of the people they are pitching.

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How to Generate Coverage From Conferences

Cision

Cision’s 2016 State of the Media Report, to be released Tuesday, found that the majority of journalists (93 percent) prefer to be contacted via email. But before you start writing, think about what you want to convey in your news announcement. Are you looking for more national outlets to cover the event?

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

Stephen Waddington

The inspirational public relations graduate started blogging in September 2016 as a final year student at Westminster University. It’s the advice that I gave Marcel when we first met in the summer of 2016. The main goal when I first started MK was to sharpen my writing skills. What’s your writing habit? He took note.

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