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Osaka Episode puts Media, Sports and Celebrity on Trial

Flack's Revenge

What is an athlete’s obligation to the sport that helped make her a star (she’s the world’s highest paid female in sports)? Do the media have an inalienable right to put athletes up against the wall at the pleasure of sports fans? I think it’s very important in developing our sport, in promoting our sport.”

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ICON 2024 Q&A: Inside Baseball and PR With Adam Chodzko of the Los Angeles Angels

PRSay

14, during PRSSA’s ICON 2024, Chodzko was on a panel discussing news releases in sports PR. In recent years, we’ve seen major newspapers cut back their sports departments, and more blogs/fan sites appear. What’s your advice for students who are starting college and interested in sports marketing?

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How Sports #PR has Changed for the Better (Mostly)

Deirdre Breakenridge

This is even more evident in the sports world. Sports organizations would conduct their PR through traditional forms of media; newspapers, television, billboards, things like that. When your favorite team signed a big player, you could read about it in the newspaper and there might be a television campaign highlighting him/her.

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Faces & Markets of PRGN: Ireland – A Dynamic Economy and a Great Place to Do Business

Bianchi Biz Blog

Although print newspaper readership has declined, publishers’ online assets continue to grow strongly, with consumers accessing news media sites via mobile and social media. Today FM – Music, Entertainment, News & Sport broadcast nationally. The All Ireland Football Final in July is the highlight of the Irish sporting calendar.

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3 Ways to Write Better Leads: Make Them Concrete, Creative and Provocative

PRSay

Feature leads have been proven in the lab again and again to outperform traditional news leads in research by the Poynter Institute, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Newspaper Association of America and Reuters Institute. Make it: Florence Storch is a 101-year-old Alberta woman with a unique hobby and a lofty goal.

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Not all fun & games: Sports tie-ins can cause uneasy moments for clients—agencies beware!

Agility PR Solutions

Many years ago before jumping the fence to the PR side, I was a sports reporter for several New York City newspapers and a wire service. In those days, sports news was considered unimportant, compared to business, political and world news. (It It still is, in my opinion.)

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PRSA Introduces Innovative Program to Guide Journalists Transitioning Into PR and Communications

PRSay

So far in 2024, the Los Angeles Times , The Wall Street Journal , Time magazine, Sports Illustrated and National Geographi c, among other outlets, have all conducted layoffs, while journalists at several Condé Nast publications staged walkouts over proposed job cuts. He thought I was a good fit for a position at G.S.