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Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
PR Newswire Empowers Brands for AI Search and Strategic Communications with Multichannel Content Amplification
Key features for optimizing content in an AI-driven search environment NEW YORK, July 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As Large Language Models (LLMs) rapidly transform the search landscape, PR Newswire is empowering communicators to excel through its advanced Multichannel Amplification™ services. PR Newswire helps organizations publish once and reach everywhere, enhancing topical authority and shaping favorable AI-generated summaries. Key Features of PR Newswire's Multichannel Amplification services: Topical Authority: Build and reinforce your brand's presence in authoritative search results by leveraging PR Newswire's industry-leading distribution network, designed to surface expert-driven content across major search engines and media outlets. This is crucial for establishing your brand as a trusted source in an LLM-driven search environment. AI-Friendly Optimization: Structure and distribute press releases that are easily understood and surfaced by AI models, including LLMs. This boosts your brand's visibility and positioning in AI-generated answers and summaries, ensuring your message is accurately interpreted and presented in the evolving search ecosystem. One Message, Multiple Missions: Whether it's media relations, investor updates, brand awareness, or thought leadership, PR Newswire enables you to fulfill multiple communications objectives through a single, strategically crafted piece of content, optimized for how LLMs process information. "PR Newswire's platform is built for today's evolving media landscape, deeply impacted by the rise of LLMs," said Jeff Hicks, Chief Product and Technology Officer at PR Newswire. "We're not just distributing press releases – we're giving brands the tools to influence conversations, rank as topical authorities, and be found in the ways people are searching today, which increasingly means through LLM-powered interfaces." Helpful resources Ready to enhance your brand's visibility in the age of AI? Learn more about PR Newswire's Multichannel Amplification services: Watch PR Newswire's recent on-demand webinar, "From Keywords to Conversations: How AI Search is Reshaping PR," to explore how smart distribution can maximize visibility in the age of AI and LLMs: About PR Newswire PR Newswire is the industry's leading press release distribution partner with an unparalleled global reach of more than 440,000 newsrooms, websites, direct feeds, journalists and influencers and is available in more than 170 countries and 40 languages. From our award-winning Content Services offerings, integrated media newsroom and microsite products, Investor Relations suite of services, paid placement and social sharing tools, PR Newswire has a comprehensive catalog of solutions to solve the modern-day challenges PR and communications teams face. For 70 years, PR Newswire has been the preferred destination for brands to share their most important news stories across the world. For questions, contact the team at View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE PR Newswire
CNBC
07-07-2025
- General
- CNBC
Doing this simple trick more often can instantly boost your credibility, says public speaking expert: It's ‘enormously important'
Good communicators have a few things in common: They speak clearly and concisely, show empathy and they use open, inviting body language. They also know the power of good eye contact, according to executive coach and public speaking consultant Bill McGowan. Eye contact is "enormously important," whether you're having a one-on-one conversation or giving a TED Talk in front of hundreds of people, McGowan tells CNBC Make It. The skill helps you exude confidence and boosts your credibility and authenticity, especially when you're in a professional setting. Darting your eyes across the audience or looking up to the sky, figuring out what you'll say next, can make you look anxious and doubtful, he adds. "We break eye contact because we like to have mental privacy to think about what it is we want to say next, and looking at the other person staring at you doesn't give you that privacy," says McGowan, author of "Speak, Memorably: The Art of Captivating an Audience." "So that's why we'll look at the pattern on the carpet, or we'll look at the tiles in the ceiling. We'll look anywhere to give us that privacy of thought." That doesn't mean you should unwaveringly gaze in someone's eyes during your next conversation or presentation — that can make you come off "robotic," Columbia Business School professor and communication expert Michael Chad Hoeppner said last month. Focus on making eye contact meaningful instead of constant, he added. If someone is sharing a secret or being vulnerable, for example, you'll want to be attentive and show empathy. If you're having a casual chat, however, staring too intently can become uncomfortable. In other words, read the room and adjust your focus accordingly. "People who are shy and introverted have a harder time with eye contact than extroverts," says McGowan. "But [you can] improve your eye contact in a way that still keeps you in your comfort zone." McGowan tells his more introverted clients to pick a spot around a person's eyes to look at to make meaningful connections, especially if you're speaking to an audience. "It could be an earring that somebody's wearing. It could be the knot on a necktie a man's wearing, or the top button of someone's shirt, or their earlobe," he says. "Zero in on that when you're talking to them, and that is going to give you all the privacy that you would get from looking at the ceiling and looking at the floor." The same applies for meetings on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, where staring at your webcam instead of people's faces on the screen can be difficult. McGowan even advises people to print out a picture of someone you're comfortable with and tape it on your computer, with a hole cut out for the webcam. "The other person will never know that you're not looking at them directly," he says. "That's the virtual equivalent of eye contact."
Wall Street Journal
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
In Closure, May I Say That ‘Been a Minute' Is Legend
Language evolves, but sometimes it devolves. I long ago threw in the towel on 'closure.' The pandemic saw school closings, not closures. 'Closure' is even worse to describe solace or resolution of sorrow or mourning. Distorting nouns into frankenverbs—think 'prioritize' and 'impact'—has been going on for years but still grates. A recent addition is 'gift': He gifted me a new tennis racket. That should be 'gave.'
Qatar Tribune
18-05-2025
- Business
- Qatar Tribune
PICPA Toastmasters Club boosts public speaking skills
Darlene Regis In pursuit of developing confident communicators and effective leaders, the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) Qatar Toastmasters Club is fast becoming a vital platform for Filipino professionals in Doha pursuing personal and professional growth. Chartered in 2023 under the PICPA Doha LLC (G), the club is affiliated with Toastmasters International, a global organisation committed to excellence in communication and leadership development. Club meetings offer a supportive environment where members practice public speaking, receive constructive feedback, and take on leadership roles. Through its regular meetings, the club champions Toastmasters' core values of Integrity, Respect, Service, and Excellence, while empowering individuals on their journey of personal and professional development. 'Joining Toastmasters helped me overcome my fear of public speaking and build my confidence at work,' shared one member during a recent session. The PICPA Qatar Toastmasters Club welcomes guests and aspiring members to attend its meetings and experience firsthand the benefits of the program. For inquiries, contact VP Membership Keziah Mei Sadiwa at +974 5074 1154, email
Associated Press
04-03-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
AP again seeks end of its White House ban, saying the Trump administration is retaliating further
The Associated Press is asking a federal judge for a second time to immediately restore its access to presidential events, arguing that the Trump White House has doubled down on retaliating against the news outlet for its refusal to follow the president's executive order that renamed the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden last week refused AP's request for an injunction to lift the ban against many of its reporters and photographers. But McFadden noted that case law weighed against the White House, and urged the administration to reconsider before a scheduled second hearing on March 20. In an amended lawsuit filed late Monday, AP cited continued instances of journalists turned away — including a photographer not allowed on the West Palm Beach airport tarmac to document Air Force One's arrival — and the White House's decision to fully take control over membership of the pool that covers the president at smaller events. 'The net result is that the AP's press credentials now provide its journalists less access to the White House than the same press credentials provide to all members of the White House press corps,' the amended lawsuit argues. The Trump administration did not immediately return a request for comment on Tuesday morning. White House's move called a 'targeted attack' The AP filed its initial lawsuit on Feb. 21, naming three Trump officials – White House chief of staff Susan Wiles, deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich and press secretary Karoline Leavitt – as defendants. The agency, a not-for-profit news organization in operation since 1846, called the White House's move a 'targeted attack' that strikes at the freedom of the press and public to speak freely without the threat of government retaliation. The administration has said that it is not blocking the AP from reporting the news — or even the White House grounds — but access to the president is something that it controls. In recent days, it has broadened the group of outlets that participate in the coverage pools to include some that are clearly sympathetic to Trump's views. Trump has dismissed the AP as an organization of 'radical left lunatics' and said: 'We're going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it's the Gulf of America.' The AP's call on this issue takes on added weight because the AP Stylebook, its guide to news standards, is widely used by other news organizations and communicators. Its guidance was to continue to use Gulf of Mexico because the name is widely recognizable to an international audience, while acknowledging Trump's directive. The White House ban 'hinders the AP's ability to produce reporting and publish photographs quickly — an essential attribute of a wire service — causing delays that harm the AP and, as a result, the thousands of news outlets and billions of readers that rely on its journalism,' the agency said in its lawsuit. Larger White House events also are barring AP, agency says In addition to cutting the AP out of coverage pools, which it has participated in while covering presidents for more than a century, the AP said its Washington reporters were turned away from larger events open to all journalists with White House credentials who reserve in advance. They include recent state appearances by French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Oddly, however, AP journalists from France, England and Ukraine who paid to travel with the foreign leaders' media contingents were permitted to cover those White House events, the AP said. An AP spokeswoman said the agency said it does not typically send its overseas journalists on such trips to the White House. In the amended lawsuit, the AP says a source told its journalists that that the ban had been expanded from text journalists to photographers specifically to deprive the organization of revenue it earns from selling pictures. ___
