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Should you feel ashamed for reading the hard copy newspaper?

Communications Conversations

Every so often, I’ll see it in one of my social feeds: That comment or remark from a friend, colleague or industry person taking jabs at the hard copy newspaper and those that read it. I still love my hard copy newspaper. ask yourself: Why AREN’T I reading my daily newspaper? It’s not surprising. With our park.

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45 Marketing and PR Statistics that Recap the Year We Had in 2020

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Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Public relations statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020.

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Communicators Can Help Americans Vote in 2020

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Expanding the right to vote to include more citizens has been an ongoing exercise since the Constitution came into force 231 years ago.

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

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There were newspapers, magazines, wire services, trade publications, TV and radio. Daily newspaper circulation in the United States has fallen from its height of 61.8 million in 2020, according to Pew Research Center. Needless to say, a lot has changed in public relations since 1967. Three major broadcast networks dominated TV.

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

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First, PR Week and Cision recently released their 2020 Comms Report which shared the following stats: When asked how much of your current engagement efforts are focused on mainstream media vs. influencers, 74% of respondents said mainstream media and just 26% said influencers. newspapers have shed HALF their newsroom employees since 2008.

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Journalists Love Twitter, and if Your Job is Media Relations, You Should too

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The 2020 survey results aren’t out yet – but will be soon – and that number is going up again. Those numbers were tallied up by Muck Rack for the company’s The State of Journalism 2020 report. In 2019, that number jumped 17 points to 68%. Because so many journalists are on the platform.

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The Top 10 Most Read Posts on Sword and the Script in 2020

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The first two places journalists go to find news is online newspapers and magazines (60%) and Twitter (22%); 85% of journalists say Twitter is the most valuable social network. 2020 Public Relations Salary Survey: How Much Money do PRs Pros Make? Good riddance 2020! The median public relations salary in the U.S.

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