The Talking Points Podcast

Thanks for listening! Here’s our June episode: The Quick News & Quick Takes segment this month includes stories about how Facebook is hiring people to help combat fake news (4:35), the huge increase in the creation and consumption of the story format, like Instagram Stories (5:20) and a study on journalists’ options of the press release (7:30). The Talking Points Spotlight highlights how Macy’s is using employees in a role usually reserved for third party influencers (9:05). And, the three Talking Points in this episode feature discussions about content workflows with some advice for creating and managing content (14:05), an article that seeks to explain why most social media manager jobs are filled by women (22:05) and the takeaways for communicators in Mary Meeker’s 2018 Internet Trends Report (36:55). Plus, the Talking Points Shoutout for this month goes to Martha McCarthy Krueger of The Social Lights. She talks about her agency and how it got started, and their future (43:10). For show notes and links to