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If you’re thinking about abandoning Twitter to refocus your efforts on Snapchat or Instagram, you may want to reconsider: A whopping 40% of journalists source their stories on Twitter, according to a Cision report. What’s more, Medium reports that almost a quarter of the platform’s verified user base are journalists. And if the 2016 election cycle taught us anything, it’s that Twitter is the center of the online national conversation at any given moment.

Winner: Ascension – Addressing Healthcare Needs of Diverse Communities, One Story at a Time As the largest nonprofit health system in the United States and the world’s largest Catholic health system, Ascension has a history of… Continued

Winner: Antonio Lucio, HP Inc.  During the past year, HP Inc.’s CMO Antonio Lucio invented the brand identity to differentiate it after what was once HP split in 2015. As part of the “Keep Reinventing”… Continued

Winner: Alzheimer’s Australia Vic – Let’s Talk About Sex: Relationships and Intimacy as We Age A conversation about sex and aging was long overdue in Australia and around the world. Working together, Alzheimer’s Australia Vic… Continued

The value of measuring and analyzing outcomes cannot be stressed enough. While it may take an investment to implement measurement and purchase the best tools, the very heart of doing so saves companies money and resources in the long run. Your marketing budget may be for naught if you fail to analyze what’s working and what isn’t—you could be throwing money out the door year over year if you’re not measuring success.

“Almost all firms are over-servicing,” Gould says, though small ones, with yearly revenue of $3 million or less, are the major culprits. This largest group of firms often lacks sophisticated time-management systems (one he recommends is ClickTime) and a chief financial officer (CFO) to oversee, interpret and analyze the data such a system produces.

It’s too late in the year to plan and execute a new PR campaign. And you lack the amount you would need in the budget for another major expenditure. But your use-it-or-lose-it situation means you need a smart solution, stat. Have no fear: It’s measurement to the rescue. Why measurement? Think of it as an opportunity to demonstrate to your company leadership that you can be resourceful and that you understand the importance of data. In other words, use the rest of your budget in a data-driven media analysis to substantiate the influence of your 2016 PR effort and provide a strategic roadmap for 2017.

Whose Court? A California court is deciding whether or not to honor a clause that prohibits Wells Fargo customers from suing the bank over the phony accounts scandal. Should the clause hold in court, wronged customers will forced to submit to arbitration, an option seen as more favorable to Wells Fargo.

As a PR pro, you’ve heard the advice often: Stick to the basics that you learned in Communications 101. It applies in so many situations, including thinking about paid social, according to PR pros we spoke with about the subject. And, yes, all of them have modest budgets for social media.

A study warranting attention was unveiled during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation conference recently. Backed by sentiment analysis software from IBM, the objective was to see if companies that were vocal about their CSR received a reputational lift online and, if so, by how much. Part II: Many of us talk about corporate social responsibility (CSR), but can we define it? A recent Aflac study, shared with PR News Pro exclusively found executives in the CSR space have many definitions for it.