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3 Ways to Tell Better Stories

PRSay

Don’t have a case study yet? ’ The Kansas City Star had a photographer in the neighborhood, and the next day, my treehouse was on the front page of the newspaper. I once used a tale from “I Love Lucy” to explain cost accounting for an internal comms channel I managed. Post an RFS. Create a scenario. Tell a story.

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Need a Hyper-Short Message? How You Write a 4-Sentence Feature

PRSay

The feature-style story structure draws more readers, gets people to read longer and increases satisfaction with the message and the brand, according to studies by the Poynter Institute, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Newspaper Association of America, Reuters Institute and more.

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Media trends—which newspapers do readers trust most?

Agility PR Solutions

A new study measuring “trust” among readers of their newspapers-of-choice from Brand Keys found The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal #1 among fifteen papers examined in this wave of research. The post Media trends—which newspapers do readers trust most? appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Pew Study Finds Americans Still Prefer Watching to Reading the News

PRSay

A new survey from Pew Research Center revealed that Americans prefer to watch the news rather than read it by a ratio of 47 to 34 percent, marking only a minimal change from 2016’s study, which tallied 46 percent of respondents as news-watchers to 35 percent as news-readers. Young adults prefer online platforms.

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How To Score A Great Local News Story: 5 PR Tips

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Although the number of local news outlets — particularly newspapers — has declined over the past several years, local media still offers clout. A study found that 76% of Americans trust local television news, – a confidence level that’s over 20% higher than trust in national news. for example, or simply not respond.

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4 trends in journalism and what they mean for the PR industry

Communications Conversations

Supporting stat: According to the study by Felix Simon and Lucas Graves, more than two-thirds of leading newspapers (69%) across the EU and US were operating some kind of online paywall as of 2019, a trend that has increased since 2017 according to the researchers, with the US seeing an increase from 60% to 76%. Will it last?

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Print newspapers still drive best ad engagement in Canada

Agility PR Solutions

Do newspapers still have ad power? They sure do in the Great White North, according to a new study from News Media Canada, which found that printed newspaper ads engage Canadians more than any other medium, print or digital.

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