Ben Pfeiffer is the President and CEO of Rank Smart Search Marketing, an organic search engine optimization and marketing firm. He is an industry veteran, writer, and speaker with over 12 years ...
Perhaps you've heard of the inverted pyramid. This elderly news-story construction, which puts the most boring/trivial details at the bottom, is a relic of newspaper writing that needed to be cut ...
Q: I run a three-person operation that has some interesting product announcements from time to time. Can you give me the basics of writing a successful press release? A: Start by calling it a news ...
Maximize executives and board members' leverage with three communication steps: 1) Prepare yourself and the executives or board members in advance; 2) deliver in a news-style inverted pyramid; 3) ...
Journalism has a love-hate relationship with the inverted pyramid. Its supporters consider it a useful form, especially good for breaking news. The inverted pyramid, or at least its most substantial ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. If one looks deeply at the world of “fake news” one finds that much of ...
Communication analysts are noting structural similarities between GPT-5.1’s interpretive behavior and long-standing journalism practices. The model’s emphasis on clarity, factual accuracy, and ...
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