Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In fact, a recent article in the BusinessWire Blog called Media Outlet Availability on PR Efforts , by Christopher S. the number of media outlets has dropped by almost 60 percent since 2015, with the lion’s share of the decline coming from the daily newspaper ranks; The number of reporters has dropped significantly as well, with U.S.

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Journalistics

JANUARY 3, 2016

As part of my effort to get the blog back on track in 2016, I spent the past month doing some quantitative and qualitative analysis to better understand how this happened. I’ve shared the results from this exercise in the first half of this post below (“Why I Was Not Blogging”). Why I Was NOT Blogging.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 11, 2018

I don’t have hard statistics or success rates, but anecdotally as president of the Publicity Club of New York , I’d be surprised if one in one hundred PR-driven story pitches actually results in a story. The quality of the pitch itself has degraded over the last few years.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Pitch reporters and influencers. When pitching, it’s important to be clear and concise. For reporters, email is the preferred place for pitches, according to Cision’s 2015 Social Journalism Study. This digital hub can be housed on your website and include press releases, blogs, white papers, videos and more.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Align your company’s mission with what makes it unique and use that angle to pitch and earn coverage from targeted, trusted media outlets. By pitching thought leadership to outlets before publishing on your own channels, you can turn owned media into earned media. How can you stand out? Want inspiration? PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Presspage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Finding traditional news media harder and harder to reach in the modern age, OhioHealth saw an opportunity to showcase their internal communications stories alongside their media relations efforts to truly create a one stop shop brand journalism website. Mark Hopkins : With our old newsroom there was a total of 11,588 hits in 2015.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Today’s a first for this blog–and series. But journalism does addict you to quick results and to working alone. I returned to Minnesota PRSA in 2015 to pursue accreditation (APR) to give me an edge in pitching clients as a solopreneur again. Then I went quiet in the chapter during my busiest corporate years.

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MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

Paul Business Journal and, increasingly of late, Minnesota Business magazine. With the exit of former editor Steve Mollman, the MaccaPR blog was pleased to interview the new editor-in-chief of. Paul Business Journal, and news director for SPNN-TV Neighborhood News. That kind of PR pitching reveals a shot-gun approach.

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Flatiron Communications

JULY 5, 2022

My role was to keep the startup founders’ strict two-minute elevator pitches flowing — for three hours — which worked out to roughly 17 presentations/hour, including interstitials! I gravitated to the Centre Stage, but checked out the PandaConf (ad/marketing), and FourthEstate (media/journalism) stages. Sharma, Pace, and Isikoff (l.

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Presspage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Finding traditional news media harder and harder to reach in the modern age, OhioHealth saw an opportunity to showcase their internal communications stories alongside their media relations efforts to truly create a one stop shop brand journalism website. Last time we spoke about your content strategy. That is a meteoric 889% increase!

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The Hoffman Agency

JUNE 17, 2019

When Jack Ma and Alibaba plucked down $266M at the end of 2015 for the SCMP, the vision for the media property expanded the playing field from Hong Kong to rest of the world. Don’t make a pitch sound like a pitch! effective media pitches in Hong Kong get to the point, ideally with some semblance of drama. Like in the U.S.,

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 14, 2015

Even so, as someone who has made a career and still plies the “earned media” trade for a range of clients, I get the heebie-jeebies when a prominent journalist from a highly sought-after business news site quips during a recent Publicity Club of New York luncheon that he “hasn’t written a story pitched by a PR person in years.”

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Media Journalism Social Media Mobile 28

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Let’s not post new blog content 4x a month if that frequency isn’t working anymore. Local news and indy journalism more trusted. “I I predict the continued rise in readership of local news channels and independent journalism. Independent news channels, blogs and podcasts will rise in readership/listenership.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I studied journalism with a few PR courses sprinkled in between at St. Before I knew it, I was pitching emails every day to magazine editors, learning how to efficiently track my efforts and collect contacts and building campaigns with social media influencers. According to Kiip’s blog, the company saw a 230 percent growth last year.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

I have a global perspective, having managed a global forecasting team for many years and lived in Saudi Arabia from 2013-2015. I’ve just started a blog, “Reflections” on the site, providing me a place to share my musings. How long have you been in journalism, and how did you get started? people that want to pitch you?

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This month, as I perused through the vendor websites and blogs, I noticed a lot more of it. PR Newswire is owned by Cision, which acquired the press release distribution service in 2015 for $841 million. It also added “activity scores” to see “how often they are writing from all your most viewed lists and pitches.”. Media pulse.

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

Links out to the 10 best blog posts I've read (on getting stuff done) during five months of exhaustive research. I'm writing a blog post on how the best communicators "go deep" and get stuff done. I know how I've done it; but how do others achieve it, I wondered (hence the blog post). Such are the risks of blogging and email.

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

Your blog is just not working and you’re wondering why. And they all blog. Enlightened Self-Interest: The Pitch Email. His personal blog is PR Studies and he edits a magazine called Behind the Spin. Author of 27 Blogging from Paradise books. You have a belief in the essential goodness of human nature.

Communications 81

Communications How To Blogging Content Marketing 81

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

” What’s happening in public relations is happening right now in independent journalism. These folks want to talk about their needs outside the scope of actual pitches. December 2015: One Bold Content Marketing Prediction for 2016. December 2014: 6 Pragmatic Content Marketing Predictions for 2015.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Paul Business Journal , Twin Cities Business’ e-briefcase, and even Huffington Post have eroded the value of the daily newspaper at 425 Portland Avenue? Paul Business Journal, Twin Cities Business, Minnesota Business, MinnPost and more? "We But earlier this month the Journal stopped producing those pages. Think again.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

We’ll never forget the panic in the PR world as tens of thousands of journalists (aka our PR pitch targets) at newspapers, TV stations and magazines were laid off. whose lively “ Ad Blockers: An Uncertain Threat ” blog post is a must-read. They don’t block influencer blog posts, or emails, or sponsored white papers.

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