Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The PRCA was started by a group of CIPR members in 1969 who wanted to create an organisation to address the specific needs of agency owners. None of the top 20 UK agencies participated in the recent PRWeek pay gap study. Why is public relations conflated with media relations? Another history lesson. It’s PR not ER.

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PR in High Definition

JUNE 28, 2022

The media landscape has been changing for many years. From 2019 to 2021 , print subscription circulations fell by 7%, and single-sale copies by 11%. Put simply: when it comes to building reputations, shrinking media pools are becoming a bigger problem. This places pressure on PR professionals and journalists alike.

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Beyond PR

JULY 18, 2016

Furthermore, print resonates better with Brazilian audiences. Respondents from the report Brazilian Media Research 2015: Media consumption habits by the population state that print media is the most trusted source of news, and 50% of respondents are singularly focused while reading print publications.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 7, 2020

The company says a centralized tool that links these things together will present a complete picture of media relations activity. Two small international PR tech vendors Prezly, and Propel, both promote a similar concept ( here and here ). In an interview with PRWeek, the company likened it to a CRM for PR.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2017

Some PR agencies fall into a trap of chasing only only large, brand-name clients. A PR firm may also think that doing media relations for well known brands can be easier than work for unknowns, because journalists are eager to cover them. But the point here is that a company doesn’t need to be huge to be noticed.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

To promote professional expertise and build visibility, it helps to be a media resource – that’s what keeps PR agencies in business. This is where having a PR agency or internal staffer comes in handy. Photo by CoWomen from Pexels. How can subject-matter experts maximize their chances of success?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

When it comes to choosing a public relations agency, experience, credentials and creativity are key factors. A good agency will assemble the ideal team to match a client’s needs, ensuring not just the right titles and experience levels, but the right personalities as well. Starring roles for an agency team.

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Solo PR Pro

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So why expect your PR person to talk with a reporter and tell them to not print that statement you made to them in an interview? In the case of the law, it’s the judge that’s the decision-maker; in media relations, it’s the reporter/editor. Why are you approaching this as (a pitch, a news release, a social media post, etc.)

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

Performance isn’t typically an issue in print — using prose to tell a compelling story is. There’s more time to report and (despite the shrinking news hole) more room in print/digital to provide detail and nuance. We’ve got video of some sharks attacking a whale outside the Golden Gate!

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Cision

JULY 14, 2016

After a short stint at a large NYC agency on its agricultural product PR team, I actually found my true calling by chance when I answered an ad in The New York Times for a job at Spring O’Brien, an agency that specializes in travel and tourism PR. What do you have planned for them? How do you envision the future of PR?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

One of the great reasons to work in a PR agency is the diversity of clients you meet. If you love tech PR , you might have the opportunity to learn something about data security, e-payments, or explore the future of 3D-printing. We recently helped client HiFX, an international currency firm, launch in the U.S.

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Prohibition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Despite the rise of social media, which maintains a key part of a brands marketing offer, public relations still plays a key role and is something all businesses should take into consideration. In some way or another, all organisations rely on reputation and awareness for success.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2016

As SHIFT and the entire industry continues to evolve there is always the question… Is traditional media relations dead? After an aggressive media relations push, we began to pick up traction in the local market. Client: Print Syndicate. Online, print, broadcast – it all still matters. Client: Blink.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Look, I see both sides of this – I do a lot of media relations for clients and I get a lot of bad pitches for this blog. It’s worthwhile to print off some copies of your high performing pieces and have them available. 6) It’s important to build internal links. Looking for a content marketing agency partner that can both.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

One thing that separates PR, and specifically media relations, from marketing and advertising is third-party validation: there’s nothing you can say about yourself that’s as powerful as someone else saying it about you. The announcement pitches this as enabling “PR agencies to sell robust guaranteed placement packages to their clients.”

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The media PR salary: $100,000. The median public relations salary in the U.S. is $100,000 in 2020; it’s higher for in-house PR and corporate communication roles at $145,500 and lower for PR agencies at $90,000. Source: 2020 Public Relations Salary Survey ). Media relations is ever more challenging.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 21, 2018

I also handle proactive and reactive media relations in the “mid-Atlantic” region of the U.S., Obviously improved business results go a long way, but we have spent years fighting against the assumptions from media that we were not going to survive and we have changed how people talk about us. from Chicago to Washington D.C.,

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. PR leads with earned and owned media but also uses paid and shared media for amplification and targeting. And then there are areas of practice that have moved more rapidly.

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Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Adriana Stan, public relations director at W Magazine, says being empathetic to the contacts you are pitching is the key to winning them over. What drew you to the field of public relations? How do you think media relations has evolved in recent years? I’ve always been an avid consumer of journalism and loved writing.

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Polaris

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

PR is more than just media relations. One of the key fundamentals that do-it-yourselfers fail to understand is that public relations is more than just media coverage or publicity. Media relations is time consuming. The decision to handle public relations yourself is penny wise but pound foolish.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 9, 2018

Several studies suggest businesses plan to invest in public relations in 2018. Specifically, media relations, or earned media, is poised for new prominence. To that end, what you do with a mention earned in the media is every bit as important as getting it in the first place. 1) Share the news internally.

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Bad Pitch Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2012

But a pitch from a Boston-based agency**, on behalf of throat lozengeer Pine Brothers, caught my attention. The top tier of rewards focus on print publications. And Pine Brothers hired an agency to promote the competition. media relations paid media pay for performance pine brothers PR publicist'

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Scott Public Relations

AUGUST 20, 2019

From the advent of writing, to the printing press, to the discovery of radio waves and TV broadcasting, new inventions have changed how well we can communicate and how we perceive these messages. Technology has constantly altered how we communicate since the beginning of civilization.

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Scott Public Relations

AUGUST 20, 2019

From the advent of writing, to the printing press, to the discovery of radio waves and TV broadcasting, new inventions have changed how well we can communicate and how we perceive these messages. Technology has constantly altered how we communicate since the beginning of civilization.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. Sales/Internal Champions - Make sure your entire sales department and other internal champions of your content know when it launches. Media Relations - Is your e-book authored by an expert?

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2019

But before we dive in, please allow me a quick plug: Richard Carufel , the longtime editor of Bulldog Reporter , moderated and recorded the session on media relations in challenging times. It’s all part of the Earned Media Mastery online summit that Agility PR Solutions is hosting on August 22, 2019 – which just a few weeks away!

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Scott Public Relations

JUNE 26, 2020

The second, related to the first, introduces a relatively new concept: accountability for determining that published information is true. Here Zuckerberg is right—this is not the purview of social media companies. We have such bodies for many industries – the FDA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the FAA, to name a few.

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MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

We just received a report from economist and Assistant Vice President of International Programs, Bruce Corrie, from Concordia University, the nation’s foremost expert on business and immigrants. Hire people for PR who have served in the media. Those PR people who worked in radio, TV, print – they get it.

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Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

It is full of practical advice to get your team on board during workshops, internal presentations, and pilot projects. Jim Hawker, Threepipe Digital Marketing and PR – #FuturePRoofing a Public Relations agency or a Communications team. In 2014, turnover rates reached over 55 percent in PR agencies in the United States.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

Welcome to The #AskGaryVee show, where I answer your questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Tools, tips and tactics on everything marketing and social media related. Mitch Joel will unravel the complex world of digital marketing and social media with the perspective of a digital marketing agency.

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