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Our weekly roundup of news, trends and personnel moves in PR and marketing. This week’s stories include an unsavory dish cooked by Chef Mario Batali, Tavis Smiley says he wasn’t involved in unsavory activities and will PR pros need to pay for the privilege of pitching?

Communicators assume social media and influencers are influential to some degree on peoples’ decisions. The more important questions: How influential are they? Which demographic groups are influenced most? And do people value the advice of influencers and what they see on social media equally across the board? In other words are there particular sectors where social media content and influencers’ advice carries the most weight? A new report attempts to answer some of those questions.

We’ve been told there are fewer journalists who are being asked to do more. In addition to reporting the news, journalists now are asked to provide content to social media platforms such as Facebook. They’re also being asked to take pictures and provide video. A new survey looks at how much more journalists are being to do. Its findings suggest savvy PR pros should think visually.

An area where data has influenced communicators heavily is in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Instead of addressing social issues based on what communicators felt the public was thinking about, savvy PR pros are using data to assess needs prior to mounting a CSR effort. Here’s how one health organization used data and research before beginning its CSR initiative.

Our weekly roundup of news, trends and personnel moves in communications, marketing and PR. This week’s stories include Mario Batali’s unsavory behavior, federal politicians caught in #metoo and FleishmanHillard has a new tech leader.

Each week we highlight a slide from a PR News presentation of interest. This week’s slide comes from Chris White, managing editor, content marketing, and Sukhi Sahni, director, communications and marketing at Capital One. The two spoke about using the strategic use of data to drive content during PR News’ Video Boot Camp earlier this month.

We love it when data takes aim at sacred cows. We have two examples here. The first concerns influencers and whether or not #AD or #SPON harms engagement and mentions of posts. The second example looks at what consumers talked about on social during Thanksgiving re airlines. Bad service is what you’d think, right? Nope.

Each week we highlight a slide from a PR News presentation of interest to readers. This week’s slide comes from Katie Paine, the measurement guru and PR News columnist who heads Paine Publishing. Initially it was a shock: ranking journalists the way we’re used to seeing baseball hitters and pitchers ranked by their statistics. We persevered, though, and learned what was behind Paine’s slide.

Our weekly roundup of news, trends and personnel moves in communications and PR. This week’s stories include why the #metoo incidents are likely to continue, a promotion at Ketchum for Barri Rafferty and growth at Sprout Social.

Digital communications makes nearly all actions and results quantifiable. This should enable communicators to have an easier time proving the value of their work. It’s more complicate than that as this survey from PublicRelay and PR News discovered.