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Social media and journalism: how to effectively reach the public

Sprout Social

Social media and journalism are one and the same these days. 9 best practices of social media and journalism. So much of social media and journalism boils down to looking the part. This same format also applies to the likes of Instagram or Facebook Stories, too. Share posts when your audience is most likely to be engaged.

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PR vs. Journalism: Why Rivalry Hurts Both

Waxing UnLyrical

While perusing my Facebook stream the other day, I came across this article on Business Insider. For as long as journalism and public relations have existed, there’s been rivalry between them. PR vs. Journalism: Why Rivalry Hurts Both. He does social media management for KimberMedia and teaches for @bgckids.

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Is Brand Engagement Over on Facebook?

Janet Fouts

The news about Facebook lately has been pretty grim. Ogilvy reported earlier this year that pages with over 500,000 likes are seeing engagement rates plummet to just 2% and that rate is falling by.5% Cost: We see Facebook ads with a typical CPE (Cost Per Engagement) of between $0.29 The Wall St. 5% per month. The Wall St.

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7 Brands Achieving Killer Results on Facebook

Social Media Strategies Summit

There is no shortage of reasons for brands to move away from the social media giant, Facebook. From the algorithm changes to the fake news stories that plagued the 2016 election and the ever-increasing cost of advertising , the environment on Facebook seems to get more challenging every day. Source: Pew Research.

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Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates

Adam Sherk

Which news sites get the most engagement on their Google+ pages? It’s been a year since I took an early look at engagement rates for news organizations on Google+ , so I thought I’d revisit the topic and do a fresh comparison. So I also compiled the total engagement counts for all of the Google+ pages. 4 TIME 109.73

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News Organizations on Google+: Which Pages Get the Most Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Instead I’ll focus on some basic signals of user activity and engagement: the number of 1+’s, shares and comments on each page. To pull the activity and engagement figures I used All my + , an interesting tool created by Gerwin Sturm. Normally in posts like Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Breaking News 19.34

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches “Nearby Friends”

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and Google+: Facebook. Social Media News Ticker +Post ads AdSense Facebook geo-location Gnip Google mobile advertising MoPub Nearby Friends Twitter'

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