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Why Facebook & Google Can’t Afford to Legitimize Fake News Sources

Cision

In the 1890s, it was called yellow journalism and was a tactic designed by greedy newspaper publishers to sell more newspapers using scandalous (and not necessarily true) headlines. But many sites that rely on traffic to attract advertisers will create clickbait headlines that are so scandalous, people can’t help but click.

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How To Create a Simple Facebook Messenger Bot

Cision

Jes Stiles of Search Engine Journal writes that “Facebook Messenger is the most attractive platform on which to run bots for marketers…due to 1 billion monthly active users, payment, and advertiser integration, as well as a healthy developer ecosystem.” Note that a chatbot isn’t the same as an autoresponder.

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The Media Kit: What To Include

Doctor Spin

PR Resource: Journalism vs PR What is a media kit? Influencer media kits typically include information about how well-suited their platforms would be to advertisers (i.e., In Wikipedia. In Wikipedia. PR Resource: Journalism vs PR To spin or not to spin. How long should a media kit be? Can a media kit be one page?

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. Terms were not disclosed but the Wall Street Journal reported a price tag of about $240 million. Sources: Crunchbase , Wall Street Journal , PRWeek , GlobeNewsWire ). 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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Five Stories About The Media!

Bad Pitch Blog

To say that Apple is releasing products in a cloud of openness … is not responsible journalism, even for an opinion creator. Both were targets of terrorists (check Wikipedia). But there’s a word in ‘10 that is used even more incorrectly—and often—in both journalism and advertising that it must be dropped. See me shrug.)

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The Press Release is Not Dead, But It Has Evolved

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

For the backstory on how press releases came to be, see the Wikipedia entry for Press Release – History Evolution of the press release As the media landscape changed, so has the press release. This is one of the reasons I tell PR students that a minor or emphasis in multimedia journalism and journalistic writing is a solid choice.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia.