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? Will it run in print?”. After all, there’s a certain cache to seeing one’s name in print.

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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? For example, is this a wire or a print story or both?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

If it’s a company anniversary story, perhaps there’s an employee who’s been with the company since the beginning that you can incorporate through quotes or interviews. Consider this response from Madeleine Winer of Tire Review : “I have a background in newspaper journalism, so timeliness is always an element that hooks me into a story.

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Solo PR Pro

JULY 5, 2022

I still subscribe to one print newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and read it every morning. I think it helps me see patterns in the media overall, which is useful to me since most of my work is in media relations. Quick shower and then it's time for lunch. My afternoons are for calls and meetings.

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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. Hire people for PR who have served in the media.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Public relations, or more precisely media relations, can be a tricky business. The art of getting earned media coverage for a product, service or business is not as easy as it sounds. And while the degree of difficulty varies from brand to brand, the secret to securing editorial is NOT a media release.

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Mora Communications

JANUARY 3, 2018

Media begets media. A newspaper story can lead to a magazine piece, which can lead to a radio interview, which in time could very well lead to national TV coverage. . Local print publications have different needs than national print. Monthly publications are on a different schedule than daily newspapers.

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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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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

FleetOwner , part of Endeavor Business Media’s Commercial Vehicle Group, which serves commercial truck fleet executives and operations managers. As chief editor, I lead all FleetOwner’s content planning efforts for both print and digital. Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

I assign articles to our in-house and freelance staff, work with our graphic artist for our print layout and designs, and work with our sales and management team to ensure our content meets our editorial mission and help with sales. As EIC on FPW, I guide the content and direction of websites, webinars/events, and magazine.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. And if you’re pitching based off our editorial calendar, know that we’re working two to three months in advance on feature stories for the print magazine. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2022

My first article on the project also holds a special place in my memory as it was the first big article I wrote after I started in B2B journalism in which I had come up with the idea and it wound up being the cover story for a print issue. What story or stories are you most proud of?

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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. It was also a time of incredible innovation.

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Reputation Us

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

From cyber attacks, to hurricanes, to mergers gone wrong; the negative headlines seem to rule the front pages in media outlets across the CU world. The Credit Union Times interviewed CU crisis experts, including LT Public Relations ‘s Casey Boggs, for the August 31st cover story (below), “Credit Union Crisis Planning Essential.”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The best and brightest public relations teams have guidelines to achieve the best media relations results. Break these rules; improve media relations. These can include writers and editors for different sections of a magazine or newspaper, or more than one segment producer for a TV interview.

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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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Stephen Waddington

MAY 5, 2019

Tailored pitches have always been the key to success in media relations. The 2019 Cision Global State of the Media Report contains useful insights for media relations practitioners seeking to cut through with their pitches. About the survey Cision conducted its 2019 State of the Media Survey in February 2019.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Chief marketing officers are in love with the idea of breaking a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® event record and having their brands bask in the seemingly viral eruption of TV, radio, print and online buzz that comes from that honor. Media Relations Brand Strategy Event Marketing' ” says Antoniou.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Media Relations - Is your e-book authored by an expert? Don't overlook the potential of strategic media relations/publicity outreach. Sponsored Content on a Specific Blog or News Site - Increasingly, brands and companies can pay for articles to be published in traditional media such as magazines and newspapers.

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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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Cision

JULY 2, 2015

The Growth of Social Media as a News Source. According to Oxford’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015 , 41 percent of people interviewed access news via Facebook each week. Click here for our free State of the Media Report now! Social media is self-selective in nature. Want to see how journalism is changing?

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