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Visual Storytelling: It’s the Newest Name in the PR Game

By Giuseppina Chiaramonte The Hoffman Agency, San Jose It’s no secret that the way we interact online has gotten increasingly more visual. Take the proliferation of sites such as Instagram and Pinterest. You can even just take Facebook – remember when your profile only highlighted one picture – and it was kind of small? Now…

Visual Storytelling: A Critique of Mashable’s Maps Montage

By Rebecca Lansdell The Hoffman Agency, Hong Kong  As Katie from our San Jose office recently pointed out in a blog post on effective PR pitching, journalists don’t write stories like press releases. And so they shouldn’t; otherwise almost no one would read them. And yet PR people seem to cling onto the safety of…

Going Wide: How Hoffman Branches Beyond Tech Communications

By Rebecca Lansdell The Hoffman Agency, Hong Kong With our heritage in the technology sector, Hoffman has traditionally excelled in markets of complexity including telecommunications, Web 2.0 and energy. Today, while our teams across the world continue to do what they do best in tech communications, things are starting to change. In 2012, Hoffman accelerated…

branching beyond tech communications

Six Steps To Make Sure Your PR Pitch Hits the Mark

    By Katie Oxenford The Hoffman Agency, San Jose As in any industry, PR has the good, the mediocre and the downright awful. There seems to be a growing trend of journalists taking PR pitches authored by the “downright awful” and putting them on display for the world to see. Thanks to social media,…

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The New Journalism: What the Media Industry Evolution Means for PR Pros

By Scott VanSickle The Hoffman Agency, San Jose Throughout my career, journalism and the media industry have been changing; and there is no end in sight. This industry transformation began with the emergence of the Internet, and the pace of change has steadily accelerated in the past decade. We have witnessed a stream of bankrupt…

Changes ahead in Journalism

The Art of Visual Storytelling

By Samson Lam The Hoffman Agency Singapore You know the old adage – a picture is worth a thousand words. This cannot ring any truer than for people working in today’s media. When I was a writer at a tech magazine, I was bombarded by press releases and pitches every day; and nothing says, “Next,…