News audiences are watching more digital news video. Newsrooms are investing in creating more video content to keep up with demand. Yet Public Relations practitioners still mainly only communicate with words.
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Who’s influencing the influencers?
A recent Financial Times article written by Emma Jacobs called for companies to cut out the PR middle men and talk directly to journalists. This is to miss the point of modern PR. Often today it is the media itself which has been disintermediated by companies – writes Scott Guthrie
Is news poke the new press release?
Why call a press release, a press release? The word ‘press’ is anachronistic. It harks back to Guttenberg’s invention of squeezing parchment onto inked blocks circa. 1439. Centuries later the term was taken over as a self descriptor by newspapers. But press releases haven’t been targeted solely at the press since the advent of commercial