Inside Pr

Our conversation centers on the introduction of survey questions to ask Facebook users about their awareness of and trust in news sources. Also on this week's agenda, payola PR. Does it exist? What does it say about ethics in PR? What should we as an industry and as individual practitioners do to combat it? Continue Reading → The post Inside PR 496: Talking about accountability and responsibility appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Less news in the newsfeed. More things that my friends share or that I click on. We discuss the implications of this for news outlets, PR people and Facebook users themselves.Continue Reading → The post Facebook leaves publishers at the altar appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

This week, we discuss the approaching deadline to implement the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), Pew research on television news consumption, and finding time for creative thinking.Continue Reading → The post Inside PR 494: Finding Time for Creativity, GDPR and Pew Research appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

The limits we should apply to sponsored content, new models for journalism and the possibility that local journalism may be linked to a more traditional blue collar model than it is to the television-fueled celebrity salaries of recent years.Continue Reading → The post Return of the Ink-Stained Wretch appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Artificial intelligence was a hot topic amoung communicators in 2017 and it's something to continue watching and exploring in 2018.Continue Reading → The post Is 2018 the year that AI will transform my job? appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

A Toronto-based marketing firm created a chatbot that led to a partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival. Smart marketing.Continue Reading → The post To Bot Or Not To Bot appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Can Snapchat be fixed? And when isn't an apology good enough?Continue Reading → The post When Sorry Doesn’t Cut It appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Gini Dietrich, Joseph Thornley and Martin Waxman talk about the dominance of Facebook and Google, their centrality as media platforms and the importance of maintaining the threat of legislative and regulatory action to ensure that they operate in the interest of the public as well as their shareholders.Continue Reading → The post That may not be remarkable, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman and Joseph Thornley talk about transparency and disclosure. Wayne and Schuster anyone?Continue Reading → The post Forget the datum. We’ve got pizzum appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

When it comes to conferences, is less really more? Continue Reading → The post Why would I bother to attend a conference? appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Terry Fallis talks with Joseph Thornley about the importance of storytelling and narrative.Continue Reading → The post Inside PR 486: Terry Fallis on storytelling and narrative appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

We offer our take on the James Damore memo on gender diversity and how Google handled it. Will this discussion get us into trouble? Will you unsubscribe? Will you judget us harshly?Continue Reading → The post Oh Oh. Will we get into trouble for discussing this? appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Facebook Watch: Whether you get dreck or something better says a lot about you. And Voice Search should enable you to say a lot.Continue Reading → The post IPR 484 – Will Facebook do for video what it did for news? appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Gini Dietrich and Joseph Thornley discuss what the demise of Sean Spicer and the appointment by Donald Trump of Anthony Scaramucci as White House Communications Director says to professional communicators and what it means for professional communicatioContinue Reading → The post Unprofessional Communications in the White House appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Tyler Brown, long-time communications exec at the Republican National Committee, shares his experiences and insights with Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman and Joseph ThornleyContinue Reading → The post Inside PR 482: Political communications in the era of Donald Trump appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Really, we’re not making this stuff up.Continue Reading → The post IPR 481: Tales of misdirected attention appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Facebook walks like a news publisher and quacks like a news publisher; must be a news publisher. No surprise here: Venture capitalist research features their portfolio companies. But what of disclosure? Marketing with social bookmarking. Social media innovation is alive and well. And IPR is on iHeartRadio.Continue Reading → The post Inside PR 480: Facebook and news publishing, walking like a duck appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Data Science in the Wild. Danny Sullivan checks out. Snapchat? Snap Maps.And are audiograms the next big promotional tool for podcasters?Continue Reading → The post IPR 479: Kenneth, did you hear my audiogram? appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Martin Waxman, Gini Dietrich, and Joseph Thornley are joined by Alex Sevigny, the Executive Director of the McMaster-Syracuse Master of Communications Management Program. Alex talks about the importance of data science to the skillset of the well-rounded PR professional.Continue Reading → The post IPR 478: Public Relations and Data Science appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

Mary Meeker tells us about the Internet Trends that are shaping our world. Pinterest acquires Delicious and will preserve it as an archive. Martin Waxman provides a primer on social listening for business.Continue Reading → The post IPR477: The State of the Internet appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.