According to Wikipedia,A press release is also a news release, media release, press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy. Typically, they are mailed, faxed, or e-mailed to assignment editors at newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, or television networks. These are usually a concert show, a mass charity event, entertainment and movie release or an album launched.
Today press releases are not limited to media news paper or television, now that blogging is continually grew in number and many journalists started to put up their own website that becomes a harbor for news and press release. Internet is the most efficient and easiest way to access to publish a press release.
Below is the infographic facts and about of press release to know how deep it can reach out audiences from the start.
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