Categories: OLD Media Moves

North Carolina paper to post company news releases on its site

The Greensboro News & Record, a Landmark newspaper, announced Thursday that it will start posting company news releases in the business news section of its website.

Jeff Gauger writes, “You’ll now find press releases from companies with connections to the Triad publishing to the Business section as soon as they’re distributed by PR Newswire. The image below shows you where to look.

“Companies pay PR Newswire to distribute press releases. They’re not news in the sense that they haven’t been independently reported and edited, but many do contain real news all the same.

“You now can get and follow company announcements for our region at the same time that we’re getting them in the News & Record newsroom. For some, we’ll follow up with news reporting to get additional details, add context, tell you what they mean.

“Meanwhile, you’ll have the press release immediately.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.