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

Sword and the Script

Most PR professionals seem to agree that media relations just gets harder every year. In 2018, 51% of respondents said media relations is getting harder, according to the annual JOTW Communications Survey, that I’ve partnered with Ned Lundquist and Ned’s Job of the Week newsletter to field.

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PR Lessons From Twitter

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

In this blog, we often dispense practical media relations or PR advice based on years of experience in the trenches of tech PR. Journalists love to take to Twitter to offer up best practices or, more likely, let off steam about the terrible pitches that clog their inboxes on a daily basis. Don’t be a bully.

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PR Rules To Break For Killer Media Relations

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The best and brightest public relations teams have guidelines to achieve the best media relations results. Break these rules; improve media relations. Never reach out to a journalist on Twitter. But it has been frowned upon to reach out to media with a Twitter DM. Always offer an exclusive.

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Twitter Re-commits to Fighting “Toxic” Content

Ronn Torossian

The post Twitter Re-commits to Fighting “Toxic” Content appeared first on 5WPR CEO Ronn Torossian Founder's Blog. Facebook, which spent most of last year and the first half of this year very publicly fighting to protect its brand from a flurry of accusations and scandalous headlines, seems to be starting to gain traction with consumers.

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NYU Twitter Chat Reveals the Bright Minds of our Future

Melissa Agnes

I recently had the opportunity to join an NYU graduate class in a Twitter chat on crisis communications. Media Relations follows the same principle. A5:Managing media relations is a key role of PR. The post NYU Twitter Chat Reveals the Bright Minds of our Future appeared first on Agnes + Day.

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How to Use Twitter in Media Relations

The Proactive Report

Journalists are very active in social media and Twitter in particular. Most journalists consider Twitter to be an extension of their own reporting these days and 75% say that they use Twitter to build their own brand. How do Journalists use Twitter? How to Connect with Journalists on Twitter. Go to Lists.

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Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Many of the PR technology vendors I track for the monthly PR Tech Sum put a greater emphasis on earned media than media relations in their messaging. Earned media is sexy. It’s larger than media relations, but only in the abstract.