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Tarantino scraps ‘The Movie Critic’ as his final film

The director is going back to the drawing board....

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Nearly 200 Missing After California Fires

The North Korea Hack

Exposed: more stars condemn Weinstein

Kate Middleton Returns To The Public Eye For Mental Health

California Reeling From Deadly Wildfire

Judi Dench and Meryl Streep denounce Harvey Weinsten

Kate Hudson visits Cambodian schools to help fight world hunger

‘The South will rise again’

Australian bars place in World’s 50 Best Bar Awards

Is Your Cat a Killer?

Increasing ‘wildlife selfies’ are harming animals, study finds

2017 Nobel Prize for Literature winner announced

‘Marriage for all’: Germany’s first same-sex wedding

Musician Tom Petty dies, aged 66

Las Vegas attack the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history

Las Vegas Under Fire – 58 dead, more than 500 injured

Kate Winslet shares the secret to her fabulous figure

Hundreds injured in Catalan riots

Islamic State flag found in Canadian attacker’s car

Prince Harry’s Biggest Fan

Babydoll Competition Winners Announced

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ devastating announcement

Giant rat discovered in Solomon Islands

‘Like open heart surgery’: Obama on daughter leaving for university

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New media professionals enter the industry with an innate passion for keeping people informed – although most probably don’t realize that keeping people informed is now a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week commitment.

Once limited by time zones and printing press schedules, reporting has profoundly changed with the onset of digital communication. Most outlets have switched to 24-hour cycles to meet the growing need to deliver the most immediate and compelling news at every hour of every day.

Many of us have woken to breaking news that surfaced while we were capturing some much-needed sleep. The thing is, news never sleeps. Skeleton crews of journalists, editors, copy editors, illustrators, graphic designers, photographers and cameramen all remain on duty after normal business hours at every operating outlet – whether it’s a television station, online outlet, wire bureau or radio station – poised to cover breaking news, even if that breaks at 3:45 a.m.

As public relations professionals, our job, too, is deeply entrenched in the news – in fact, we are often the ones making it. With the 24/7 cycle comes various pros and cons that we, too, must take into consideration as we counsel our clients through breaking moments or even the run-of-the-mill daily dissemination.