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Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video)

Adam Sherk

It is called aggregation! Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information. –First you write an article about my press release. Then a bunch of other sites will take your article, barely change it and then publish it on their own sites. –Please. I’m begging you.

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PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent

Adam Sherk

It aggregates press releases from 10 wire services and distribution services and pulls them in directly from 60+ technology and media companies. For more information on PRFilter see the launch press release and this video: Related posts: The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases. It seems to work fairly well.

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Facebook and Twitter Offer News Organizations Much More than Just News Delivery

Adam Sherk

Users regularly look to news organizations and reporters (as well as individuals) on Twitter for additional information particularly in breaking news situations. And a Facebook Page is a good place to aggregate and curate user-generated content to tell more of a story, particularly at the local level.

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Google News Optimization Tips

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. To get your videos into Google News you need to create a YouTube channel.

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PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

Adam Sherk

Of the stories in Baltimore that week that contained new information, 95% came from traditional media and the majority of that from newspapers: So newspapers can pat themselves on the back for another day. You can get the details from the study itself but I wanted to point out a couple things that caught my attention.

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Pew Research Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks.

Adam Sherk

Yahoo and Google were among the most frequently mentioned websites for online news, indicating that users see them as sources for news (be it original reporting or aggregation) and not just search vehicles. Search Engines 34% of the public now use search engines to find news at least three days a week, up from 19% in 2008.

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Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

Adam Sherk

There is additional information in the NYTco press release , and Jim Romenesko and others have published the staff memo. UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco. We can probably say that Google and others will continue to provide information and news of events worldwide for those who search for it.