Talk:PR Newswire

This article was tagged in October 2017 with This article relies excessively on references to primary sources.

I have (briefly) examined some of the inline citations and have the following comments to add.

1. Ref #1 is listed as "About PR Newswire" Variety, but the URL is for PRnewswire.mediaroom, not Variety. Furthermore the URL ref is broken too.
2. Ref #2 is the New York Times, but is actually an obituary about the founder Herbert Muschel. (i.e. not about PR Newswire itself)
3. Ref #3 is also the New York Times, but is WP:CORPTRIV simply reporting the $841m sale to Cision
4. Ref #4 is "About PR Newswire", but this time it is properly credited to PR Newswire themselves. Not really acceptable.
5. Ref #5 is by The Herald Statesmen, a perfectly acceptable source, but it is all about the Bank of Tangiers fiasco, and reporter David Steinberg, one of their own staff at that time. PR Newswire gets a fleeting mention only.
6. Ref #6 & #7 are two more WP:CORPTRIV, both reporting another takeover (this time by Western Union)
7. (see above)
8. Ref #8 is again by The Herald Statesmen, but is simply more WP:CORPTRIV regarding David Steinberg
9. Ref#9 & #10 are both huge PDFs that mention PR Newswire, but only in passing, AFAIK. In fact the second PDF is a colossal 824 pages long, but only mentions PR Newswire once, apparently as a source of information. Maybe that's not so surprising - it is what they do!

I confess I haven't rigorously examined every citation in detail, but I can already detect a certain trend; lots of smoke, but nothing of any substance.

I'm not sure I can add much more than the above. Hope it helps.

WendlingCrusader (talk) 20:05, 24 February 2026 (UTC)