Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

As special publications editor for The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire (the fifth oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S.), Back when I was a newspaper reporter, I wrote a series of articles about an embattled high school principal accused of misconduct, including secretly altering the grades of several students.

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Cision

MAY 3, 2016

Karen Paff, senior vice president at Ogilvy Public Relations, recommends doing your research and learning as much as you can about the journalists you target before you pitch them your story. What are some key components of a successful media relations strategy? How does social media play into your media relations strategy?

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Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2015

At my first agency job in New York, I worked alongside a media relations specialist who wanted each of his annual coverage reports to be as thick as a phone book. Want more tips to help executives prepare for the next big interview? Nova Halliwell is a communications professional living in New York City. .

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MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

With the exit of former editor Steve Mollman, the MaccaPR blog was pleased to interview the new editor-in-chief of. I illustrate this for people with my hands: If you only get your news from newspapers and TV, hold your hands six inches apart – that’s all the news you’re getting. Paul Pioneer Press , the weekly. Star Tribune ’s.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

Rich Oppel, senior advisor for media strategy and management at Crosswind Media & Public Relations, says brands will successfully land media coverage when they can combine their needs with the needs of journalists and their readers. I find that some young professionals don’t read newspapers or influential websites.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? They are often the go-to pool resource for other media, because they provide quick and accurate fundamentals, especially when time is of the essence. SF Mayor Frank Jordan inviting two radio reporters on his doorstep in to interview him while he took a shower.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I put an advertising spin on this topic and wrote a piece about how dealers and advertising agencies are depicting mask usage in their ads. I started writing in eighth grade for my middle school newspaper in 1999 and was hooked from there. One day, I might pop up with an interview request when I feel they’re a good fit.

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The Hoffman Agency

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The client was desperate to get some exposure in it (for himself, I’d add — he was expecting an interview with the publication), but had little to no regard to the editorial integrity involved. It’s our job as PR professionals, absolutely, to deliver coverage in top-tier publications, but “man with ego” isn’t a media story.

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The Resolution Blog

APRIL 9, 2019

During our chat, she shared her extensive experience with Paid, Earned, Shared, and Owned media, and how it’s changing the PR world. I’ve had experience with agencies where I’ve produced great work, but there was no real way to measure it. Media relations is great, but the question is how can you translate that to sales.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 18, 2017

I was amused at how agencies were sending me press releases that were of no interest to me. Cision , the King Kong of media relations directories, swells with 1.6 million media contacts (including 300,000 digital influencers) in its searchable database. First, we start with. Another great example is.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 10, 2013

From what I have observed since I started working in this industry, practitioners and agency heads still place more emphasis on traditional methods of communicating and facilitating news and story ideas to the media. We love following up with them after pitching an interview/story idea. On the media side of things.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The PR 2020 project was based on interviews with PR practitioners throughout the UK and the outlook for the forthcoming decade. The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. In 2019, this has more than tripled to above 1,300.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

He mastered media relations managing information for national outlets like ESPN and Sports Illustrated. His popularity and ability to inspire students has played a critical role in the success of the school’s investor relations club where he has steadily grown his knowledge and responsibility. Courtney Mains @courtneyamains.

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

Counseling clients at the highest corporate level (CEO, CFO and VP/Marketing), Ron has developed expertise and experience in strategic communications planning, writing for publications, media relations, investor relations, speech writing and presentation coaching. Social media is a godsend to the PR profession.

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Stuart Bruce

JUNE 24, 2015

Public relations has always been a media neutral discipline. We also used news conferences, journalist interviews and news releases (earned), a corporate magazine (owned) and securing speaker platforms at events where executives could network and tell stories (shared).

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Bad Pitch Blog

JUNE 10, 2007

Thank you NAME TITLE DIVISION AGENCY / URL ADDRESS CITY, STATE ZIP T D M EMAIL Brother FRATERNITY Chapter FRATERNITY (3 YEAR SPAN) A Story of Entrepreneurial Success with Thanks to Greek Fraternity Life As the cost of living skyrockets from year to year, the necessity for higher education becomes inevitable. Let me know. Think again.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 17, 2018

So, with the help of a retired, if not grumpy, master chief petty officer , I invited her to a Q&A interview and she obliged. 1) Vox Optima Your business seems to do a lot of work with federal government agencies. What are the biggest challenges such agencies face in strategic communications? .

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2010

This, for successful applicants, turns into an interview (which is where I came in). In the year I applied, out of our group interview of 10, there were probably seven future fashion PRs, and three music PRs (I was the latter at the time). That got a big “check&# from me. Image: Marc Benton via Flickr, Creative Commons 3.

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The Hoffman Agency

AUGUST 16, 2023

My fellow journalism peers at UO told me about their aspirations to work for the hotshot newspapers on the East Coast. My fellow journalism peers at UO told me about their aspirations to work for the hotshot newspapers on the East Coast. When I discovered The Hoffman Agency and the people working here, I actually found my direction.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 17, 2023

I have an affinity because I recall being a young account executive getting envelopes of newspaper clippings in the snail mail from their team in Maine. Offers native newswire service through PR Newswire and PRWeb which it owns; it also owns media outreach services Help a Reporter Out (HARO) and ProfNet. Internal communications tools.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

So what’s the secret behind your agency or company successfully breaking a world record for maximum social media engagement, traditional media coverage and global brand buzz? We were reminded of the awe-inspiring PR and social media marketing power of a well-executed world record event this past July.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. Media Relations - Is your e-book authored by an expert? Don't overlook the potential of strategic media relations/publicity outreach. October 19, 2016.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Media relations remains an important part of the execution of a public relations campaign alongside paid, shared and owned media. Much of the modern public relations business grew up out of media relations and publicity, rooted in storytelling and editorial engagement.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you’re a corporate communications or public relations executive in Minnesota, the status of our state’s largest newspaper – the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune , with more than 250 editors and reporters – is always of intense interest. There’s a challenge because we have to put out 7 newspapers a week. Think again.

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PRSay

JANUARY 4, 2021

Rubenstein, an iconic figure who founded the New York-based PR agency that bears his name in 1954, died on Dec. When the New York Philharmonic made its historic visit to North Korea , Rubenstein arranged all media-related aspects of the trip — including the creation of a cable infrastructure across Pyongyang to broadcast the tour.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In his interview with PRWeek Danny Rogers asked Martin if the danger was that the growth of social media meant that it would be adopted and subsumed by advertising agencies. Sorrel doesn’t think so: “Ad agencies do say they can do this stuff, but they can’t.”. She will be media neutral.

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Bad Pitch Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

They’ll keep dialing and talking, rolling along regardless of what’s in their way—until someone agrees to interview their client. It drives the media nuts. Phone rings, I pick it up and say my name, a young girl asks for a BEAT reporter who left here for another newspaper earlier this year. Subject: MAKE IT STOP!!

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

You remember those predictions just two years ago heralding the Death of Public Relations? 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. A former Edelman PR executive published a 300-page book.

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