Newswise Blogs: PRwise

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Archetypal Dispology

Two recent apologies in the news media have caused me to reflect on the communications issues related to apologies.

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 05/15 at 02:57 PM
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Public Relations Research Lands A University Client on “The Today Show”

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One way students can reduce debt is to chose a quality public university where tuition can be one-fourth that of a private one.  But how does a public school lure away students who are attracted to a brand-name private college? Here’s how.

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 05/11 at 01:05 PM
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Friday, December 09, 2011

Related Stories

Newswise just introduced a new way for readers to interact with its content.  The “Related Stories” module in the right sidebar of each article helps users find other articles related to their interest.  Clicking on the “Channel” tab shows those stories in a channel related to the article.

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 12/09 at 10:30 AM
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Majority of Journalists Use Linkedin, though Many Ask, “What’s the Value?”

If you want to interact with journalists, it helps to find their watering hole, and the best place, according to a recent study is Linkedin.

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 10/04 at 12:37 PM
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Press Release Evolves: An Old Medium for a New Kind of Marketing

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For businesses looking to get the news out about their company, it seems almost every week brings a new tool with which to spread the company message. A corporate blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter account, a YouTube channel, and most recently, a Google+ account. A different type of content for each medium, the pros will tell you.  But what of the venerable, tried and true press release?  Practitioners of new media, social media, and most especially content marketing (I practice all three, by the way) may tell you that the press release is in decline, or worse, already obsolete.

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 09/28 at 08:42 AM
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Netflix Responds to Customer Outrage with New Thing for Customers to Get Outraged About

4 Ways Netflix Failed With Big Announcement:  Netflix announced that it will split into two companies to handle internet streaming and DVD-by-mail separately.  “The envelopes will still be red,” assures CEO Reed Hastings, but the unpopular changes have customers seeing red, and threatening to cancel their memberships. 

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Posted by Thom Canalichio on 09/20 at 09:41 AM
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

Guest Blog: A “Victim” of Newswise Success

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I had no idea how far reaching and immediate Newswise could be with the public until the day I got involved with Internet poker.

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 09/01 at 10:43 AM
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Google Translate on Newswise

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Newswise has recently introduced a new service by making Google Translate as simple as one click on any article of the more than 100,000 in our online database.  This makes clients’ news much more accessible to international journalists.

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 08/24 at 09:02 AM
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Monday, June 13, 2011

News Releases are Sources

Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 06/13 at 08:00 AM
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Guest Blog: What Your PR Person Needs to Know

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Here are a few tips for PR folks and their clients about how to really get a journalist’s attention. May just be worth sharing it with your clients the next time they ask why you didn’t get them any coverage this week.

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Posted by Roger Johnson on 05/16 at 11:04 AM
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