Remove 2021 Remove Journalism Remove Local
article thumbnail

S&T Live Recap: Local News Deserts Leave Residents Uninformed, Encourage Misinformation

PRSay

This year alone, 127 newspapers closed in the United States, an average of nearly two per week, according to Northwestern University’s Medill State of Local News Report 2024. Despite the demand for local news, news deserts “are counties with no newspaper, no digital-only news site, no ethic media, and no public radio,” Franklin said.

Local 140
article thumbnail

Reporters Reveal Their Feelings Toward Their Counterparts in Comms

PRSay

Companies are improving the way they share information, even as the credibility of CEOs and PR representatives has fallen, according to MuckRack’s 2022 “ The State of Journalism ” report. Numerous journalists said they reject pitches they deem irrelevant, off-topic, not localized or poorly written. Illustration credit: 32 pixels ].

Report 138
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Originally Published August 23, 2017; Updated August 9, 2021 ; Updated November 2023 PR is always evolving. Webinars, podcasts, online conferences and other digital format events have a tremendous reach and we expect them to continue to be important well beyond 2021. In the meantime, digital speaking events have exploded.

Training 195
article thumbnail

News media in 2022: Reuters Institute Digital News Report

Stephen Waddington

It covers business models, audience strategies, journalism practice, regulation, and future technologies. In many parts of the world audiences have fallen during 2021 because of these factors. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report tells the story of the future of the news industry from the front line.

Report 122
article thumbnail

Maxim Behar Among PRCA MENA Regional Award Judges 2021

Maxim Behar

Maxim Behar will be one of the judges of PRCA MENA Regional Awards 2021 , honouring the year’s most effective and creative digital PR and communications campaigns, individuals, and teams across The Middle East and North Africa. Winners will be announced at the PRCA MENA Regional Awards 2021 event in Dubai on February 2021.

Ethics 52
article thumbnail

Can a PR Software Vendor Provide “Guaranteed” Editorial Placements? [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

This is how you wind up with a press release on a local ABC news affiliate in Buffalo even though your tech client is in San Francisco. Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. It finished the full year 2021 with $403 million in sales and was cash-flow positive. It spent $40.5 It spent $40.5

Software 150
article thumbnail

Meet the Media: Josh Fisher, Executive Editor or FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

After spending much of 2021 focused on the will-they-or-won’t-they issues of Biden’s infrastructure plan, we’re watching how that will be implemented across the U.S. — While working in local news in the Northeast, I covered a few big hurricanes and major blizzards that ravaged the area.

Meeting 94