Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Re-writing the AI draft “We’ll spend more time rewriting ChatGPT’s draft press releases, and less time finding relevant topics, reporters… thanks to it as well.” PR people and the clients they represent may see a return to the good old phone (or Zoom) interview. Wishing you a safe and happy holiday season.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Aside from evaluating new vehicles, I also script and host videos, write feature stories and help produce commerce-related posts. The first one is a review of a 2016 Lincoln MKX ( [link] ) and the second is a first drive of the updated 2019 Honda Pilot ( [link] ). How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 15, 2019

What’s more, employment prospects for PRs will expand even more to 282,600 by 2026 (up 9 percent from 2016) according to projections from the Labor Department. Treat subject lines like you’re a copywriter at a big ad agency and you have to write a killer headline for a new ad. Paul Business Journal). And honest!

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Wadds Inc.

JULY 6, 2022

billion in 2016 (Public Relations and Communications Association, 2016). Practitioners enter practice via a variety of routes ranging including administration, journalism, marketing, publicity, and social studies. In the UK the public relations market employs 99,900 people and contributes £16.7

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Ishmael's Corner

JANUARY 27, 2015

I first met Max, 12 at the time, at Great Bear Coffee in Los Gatos where I coaxed him into ordering a hot cocoa before starting our interview. While many fixate on native advertising, the partnering of publications and brands in the making of journalism is the more jarring trend. Meet Max Swisher. That would be rich.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Vesna Brajkovic has been covering the transportation industry since 2016, including trucking, railroading, the automotive aftermarket and aviation. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? In 2021, at the Women in Trucking annual conference as managing editor of HDT.

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Meeting Automotive Media Transportation 83

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 5, 2016

Watching the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics on NBC, broadcast live from Rio de Janeiro (I mean, Zika can’t get me through an LCD screen, can it?). But you know what’s really interesting about the 2016 Olympics? ” Listen: before writing this post, I had no clue who Brodie Smith was. But with 1.4

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YouTube Banking Video Sports 40

Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

I think about people like LeeAnn Rasachak and Sarah Reckard whom I met more than 10 years ago now (they were one of my first PR Rock Star interviews!). Of course, I couldn’t write a post like this without nominating a couple people myself! I met her when she was marketing director at ThreeSixty Journalism, where I’m on the board.

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Cision

DECEMBER 27, 2016

This year, I got to join the staff writing the Behind the Headlines segment and began brushing shoulders (or exchanging emails) with some of the biggest influencers, movers and shakers of the journalism and PR industries. Below are some of the biggest themes and my favorite quotations from this year!

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

Melissa Thibodo is the whole package – she is incredibly bright with PR strategy, she is among our top student writers and editors in the journalism school, she has unparalleled relationship building skills, and she has a strong foundation of real-world experience. She’s done an extensive survey and in-dedpth interviews.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal , Hamill spoke about his 24-year career as the infamous Batman baddie and how it helped prevent him from being typecast into hero roles. Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 4, 2016. Back before I did Joker, they thought of me just as that earnest, young, callow farm boy.”.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

But oh, lordy – we as communications and marketing professionals can receive a master class in what NOT to do during a crisis from Lochte’s self-immolation at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. August 19, 2016. Who was at fault? Digging the hole deeper, Lochte added, “We’re just trying to get this over with.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. Sources: GlobeNewsWire , interviews with people familiar with the decision and a sales product demo). Terms were not disclosed but the Wall Street Journal reported a price tag of about $240 million.

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Technology Software Company Marketing 12

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Note: see my interview with Tom here – Marketing has Gotten Better as a Profession; Off Script No. Note: see my interview with Sophie here – The Interim CMO as Change Agent; Off Script #19: Sophie Shiatis. Note: see my interview with Ted here – Over-reliance on Marketing Automation Depreciates Leads; Off Script No.

Marketing 101

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Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

I reviewed the report in detail, and turned the most interesting findings into an actionable set of nine media relations tips you can use to improve your results in 2016 and beyond. If multimedia journalism is the biggest trend in the media environment, it’s safe to assume that multimedia publicists are also an emerging trend.

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Media Relations Media Mobile Pitching 40

Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

I reviewed the report in detail, and turned the most interesting findings into an actionable set of nine media relations tips you can use to improve your results in 2016 and beyond. If multimedia journalism is the biggest trend in the media environment, it’s safe to assume that multimedia publicists are also an emerging trend.

Media Relations 40

Media Relations Media Mobile Pitching 40

Buzzstream

JANUARY 17, 2018

Interestingly, between 2010 – 2016, the sales of ebooks in the U.S. Your website visitors are more likely to view visual content than written content no matter how interesting and engaging your writing may be. According to The Wall Street Journal , approximately 71% of Pinterest’s 72.5

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NewsWhip

AUGUST 18, 2020

There is, however, a certain level of gray area when it comes to misinformation in 2020, as this story by Kevin Roose , who writes about technology for the New York Times, shows. This fits in with our observations that it is very rare for outright ‘fake news’ to go viral in 2020 in the same way as it did in 2016.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 12, 2017

2016 was the year when the currents that have slowly eroded the tenuous relationship between journalists and PR pros coalesced to create an existential crisis that may not be easily remedied. It prefers live TV interviews (vs. The Writings on The Wall : Fake News & Its Threat to Democracy (November 2016).

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Journalism Guidelines Government Training 28

MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The near-collapse of much of US journalism employment and the seeming vulnerability of PR coincided with America’s top marketers who - smitten with digital advertising - diverted billions of dollars from their traditional ad budgets into online. million - had become the last successful, worst-polling candidates in the 2016 race.

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