Stern + Associates

JANUARY 29, 2024

Local media has been eviscerated, and now many iconic national and global outlets are hurting badly. This is a still-evolving trend as most media interviews outside cable networks are still in print, but it’s conceivable that in the future there will be more video content around topics beyond breaking news.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 15, 2017

Recently, I received notice from the publisher of a local business journal that the “People on the Move” section is up for sale. The one-time crowdsourced feature for new hire announcements or appointments in a local market will cost $250. This means good stories that would have made news a few years ago will go unnoticed today.

Journalism 65

Journalism Brand Branding Advertising 65

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

And despite digital and legacy media outlets shuttering or laying off, there is a slew of independent, niche and grant-funded newsrooms starting up or getting help from organizations like Press Forward, Local Media Foundation, News/Media Alliance, MacArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation, the American Journalism Project and others.

Media 99

Media Nonprofit Pitching Analytics 99

Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? The differences are less significant than what, at least in a good newsroom, they all share: a commitment to enduring journalism values that include accuracy, timeliness, balance, relevance, importance, emotional impact, counter-intuition, enterprise. Oh, where to start?

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I was a radio news reporter for three years in St. I reported on just about anything during my time in radio…Breaking news, traffic reports, school board meetings…I even interviewed cats at the humane society one time (look it up; Editor’s Note: Ha! I really appreciated my time in radio and print journalism.

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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. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

I’m the editor-in-chief of SAE Media Group’s Truck & Off-Highway Engineering magazine and related digital products (e-newsletters, webinars, special reports, web content, etc.). How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I’ve been with SAE International’s Media Group for nearly 23 years.

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Engineering Automotive Agriculture Media 77

Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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. Our Commercial Vehicle Group also won editorial excellence awards for investigative journalism, a technology article on hydrogen trucks, and editorial use of data.

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Meeting Automotive Transportation Newspapers 59

Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

She began her career as an aspiring newspaper reporter, securing an internship at the Atlanta Journal Constitution before becoming a daily reporter in Greenville, South Carolina, not far from her hometown. Pivoting from journalism to PR. I knew that journalism was changing,” she said. “I Sure, I can do that. ”.

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 30, 2023

I saw a column from Scott in a local newspaper and reached out to invite him to be a guest. My background is in radio and television journalism. I spent about the first 15 years of my career doing radio, television and also some print journalism over the years.

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Ethics Journalism Radio Television 89

NewsWhip

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The UK-based company operates 130 national and regional print and online media brands in the U.K., local-focused websites like the Manchester Evening News , Leicestershire Live and national outlets like the Daily Star , Daily Express and Daily Mirror – with the latter regularly being one of the top three publishers on Facebook in the world.

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Reddit Viral Analytics Social Media 158

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In a separate, but timely report about the state of M&A in the PR technology space, Burton-Taylor Consultant Chris Porter noted: “We see ongoing M&A action in this space at all levels, from local strategic tuck-ins to major private-equity transactions. The data for their report comes from scouring published financial reports.

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PRSay

MAY 8, 2018

In one class, we were asked to write a release based on a police report. Judy: I also went to UF, but studied journalism. Karlie, how did observing your mother’s work in the profession and also in the local Chapter inspire you ? Judy: To create brochures, we used to have to go to a printing press.

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Leadership Conference Local Internal 159

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. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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David PR Group

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

A few years ago when traveling to meet a client, a story about his business was published in the local newspaper that very morning. You don’t get your local paper?” How do you get your news?” “Well, I get The Wall Street Journal at my house, but I dropped the local paper a while ago,” he said. “If I was taken aback.

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Newspapers Print Radio Local 74

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Demonstrating value and the talent paradox Talent remains a critical challenge for the PR industry according to The ICCO World PR Report 2020. The report provides an international perspective on the challenges facing the PR business. 43% of respondents reported that there is a lack of talent in PR. It’s a theme that Topi?

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Government Education Print Ethics 103

Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

Today, USA Today ranks first in combined print and digital circulation, underlying the importance of this digital transformation for newsrooms around the world. Once you’ve established that, then pitch a reporter, he continues. Q: One mistake PR professionals make is bombarding reporters with press releases. — Beryl Love.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 21, 2020

First, we need more local journalism–whether it’s professional or not. I then worked at my college newspaper as both a reporter, covering the women’s basketball team, and as an ad rep. The printing. I can’t tell you how much I loved that article–for a couple reasons. when I was 17.

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

How did you get your start in journalism? I wanted to be a writer from an early age and after I completed a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course when I was 18, I started working for my local newspaper in Cheshire, England, where I lived. I have a huge network of sources, many of whom I have used for years.

Newspapers 120

Newspapers Pitching Interviews Writing 120

Barokas

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Broadcast : In the hot pursuit of USA Today , Wall Street Journal and Forbes coverage, don’t forget about the power of broadcast, and the fact that the news cycles are often much shorter than they are for print and online stories.

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Survey Enterprise Radio Print 60

Mark My Words

JULY 17, 2015

Publicists – usually ex-journos – inaugurated a practice, now routine, of luring the press to some confined locale where they would be offered celebrity audiences in exchange for flattering puff pieces. Traditional journalism is being eviscerated by divestment in print in favour of online.

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Journalism Radio Print Analytics 60

Critical Mention

AUGUST 5, 2018

A veteran in PR and marketing, Deirdre has counseled countless senior level executives, authored six business books, serves as an online instructor for UMASS at Amherst Journalism Department and speaks both nationally and internationally on PR, marketing and social media communications. Peter Shankman. petershankman. and Yahoo!

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Twitter Radio Social Media Print 77

Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

DC Reporters Discuss How Social Media Has Changed the Game on PR Newswire’s media blog Beyond Bylines. Although the trio’s conversation focused on the state of journalism in the District, the obstacles and opportunities they discussed not only apply to most news markets, they also impact their PR counterparts.

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Media Relations Media Journalism Print 40

MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

If you're a Vice President of Corporate Communications, Chief Marketing Officer or PR Director in Minnesota, there are only a handful of local business media outlets that you. Paul Business Journal and, increasingly of late, Minnesota Business magazine. Paul Business Journal, and news director for SPNN-TV Neighborhood News.

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The revenue model for journalism is at best in flux, and at worst, in chaos. Serious journalism from unexpected sources. Its UK office announced that it’s starting to cover more local news. Vice magazine, originally a local magazine in Montreal and best-known for local coverage and shock journalism, grew into Vice Media.

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Journalism Trends Local Print 120

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

Print media (magazine) consumption rose in 2023 , and this trend should continue in 2024, according to a study by Pew Research Center (via MediaPost). As more of us get our news digitally, newspapers have taken the hardest hit; however, the estimated total US daily newspaper circulation (print and digital combined) in 2022 was 20.9

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Media Radio Print Newspapers 104

Tough Sledding

APRIL 25, 2014

By expressing public dismay in a resolution, the faculty showed journalism insiders (local and national) that we stand on principle here. This secret search has been in the local headlines for 6 weeks, but the story is about 8 months late. Had they reported it then, we might not be talking about it now. (It’s

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Bad Pitch Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

2) How a Simple, Powerful and Persistent Message to the Media Gained Client, Alsbridge, Coverage in "The Wall Street Journal", "BusinessWeek, "CIO Magazine" and Many Others Alan Weinkrantz PR Web Log Alan’s follow-up notes on achieving national business coverage. He''s also competing for longest post title in the world.

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Trade Shows Pitching Local Web 40

Sword and the Script

MAY 9, 2017

The elephants were in full dress and didn’t disappoint the many local news station cameras that came out to film the event. I’ve gotten a couple clients and a former employer into the Wall Street Journal over my career, and that photo in Roll Call is right up there with them in my book. 3) Snakes do Drive Time Radio.

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Publicity Radio Crisis Crisis Communications 86

PR Fuel

JULY 24, 2018

Simple Advice: Write Like You Speak, Reporters Will Listen. It obscures and confuses your main message, and it makes your press release blend in with all the other garbage reporters are being bombarded with all day long. Pretend you’re talking to the reporter (or whoever the intended audience is) at a bar. IT DOESN’T.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 25, 2020

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 is a challenging read. Print is down but digital is booming. Local news is most valued but is on life support. The report is based on data collected from a series of surveys of more than 80,000 people in 40 markets. There are no easy answers. Here are the main findings.

Newspapers 103

Newspapers Print Local Television 103

Mark My Words

APRIL 26, 2022

The news popped out while I was in a pub in Halifax, with no signal,’ Mason told his Twitter followers just earlier today, 24 hours after the big news broke that he would be taking on the biggest brief in British political journalism. . The new job is an immense privilege & responsibility and I’ll give it everything’ .

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Radio Local Meeting Journalism 60

NewsWhip

APRIL 28, 2021

Data and innovation leads for Hill+Knowlton Strategies in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia joined NewsWhip’s CEO Paul Quigley for a special panel session on the Pulse to talk about navigating multiple market nuances to be locally relevant at scale. Balancing global strategy & local market needs. Kirsty: Yeah.

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Consumer Measurement Local Data 78

Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Those that poo-poo print newspapers claim they can get their news elsewhere on the web. One of the things I appreciate most about my local paper is that they hire and employe professional journalists. People who are trained in journalism. Learn about LOCAL news–you know, that place where you live? With our park.

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Newspapers Print Local Instagram 152

Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

I test drive new equipment offerings in print and video formats. Wilson award for business journalism. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? My foray into journalism began by writing “letters to the editor” to several trucking trade pubs. For that effort, I earned my first Gold Kenneth R.

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Meeting Media Chemicals Radio 86

Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

This is how you wind up with a press release on a local ABC news affiliate in Buffalo even though your tech client is in San Francisco. Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. The problem for the company is that doesn’t appeal to the ~40% of comms professionals that report to a CEO or CCO.

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Journalistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It was pure magic the first time I read an article in print that was the result of a story I pitched. Back then, if you called enough reporters, you would eventually find a couple willing to listen to your pitch – and perhaps one or two that would write a story. I know, I know, it sounds like pie in the sky.

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