Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 10, 2023

These days, I’m a freelance reporter, editor and consultant. I also consult on audience and editorial strategies for a few startup publications in the tech and automotive spaces. I started my career as a crime reporter and put those skills to use in that story. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

So far in 2024, the Los Angeles Times , The Wall Street Journal , Time magazine, Sports Illustrated and National Geographi c, among other outlets, have all conducted layoffs, while journalists at several Condé Nast publications staged walkouts over proposed job cuts. How was your transition into public relations?

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Agility PR Solutions

JULY 30, 2023

Prior to jumping to the PR side of the fence from the newspaper wall, I was a reporter and editor at New York City dailies and wire services.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 6, 2024

I regularly write articles on market reports, industry regulations, information management technology, and operations. I joined my university’s newspaper as a reporter in 2018. A year later, I became co-editor-in-chief of the paper, where I hired, trained, and managed a 12-person staff for a biweekly print publication.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Kurt Nagl is a reporter, covering manufacturing for Crain’s Detroit Business. Those experiences helped shape my world view and taught me how to report in difficult situations with patience and empathy, which is a practice I try to take to every story. As a business reporter, I find great enjoyment in learning new things.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

Andrew Schunk, reporter with Rubber News , an industry trade publication that is owned by Detroit-based Crain Communications. I have been in journalism for 22 years, starting first as a reporter in general news, then as an editor for 15 years in general news, then back to reporter once again. Have a good angle.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

I’m an autos and business reporter for The Detroit News. Some of the most fun I’ve had as a reporter has involved traveling to Washington, D.C. Some of the most fun I’ve had as a reporter has involved traveling to Washington, D.C. I later went home to report out a story about the end of The Vindicator.

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PRSay

MAY 3, 2019

On April 27, Bloomberg published an inaccurate, one-sided piece titled “Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffet Sees Newspapers Dying.”. As the article noted, billionaire investor Warren Buffet sees the traditional newspaper slipping away. It’s imperative that public relations and journalism remain equal and accountable.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Things like adding a media section to your website, liking and commenting on reporters’ posts and posting on social media or your blog will boost your visibility, provide social proof and help the media find you. then a reporter may not see you as an obvious story source. If you pitch something to a reporter and they bite?

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Cision

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Dreaming of a major website or newspaper writing about your brand? You won’t get there unless you learn how to pitch journalists with your story. Instead, cozy up to reporters who write for your local newspaper. Consider publications like steps. Learn how to leverage social to catch reporters’ attention.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 11, 2022

Fun fact about me: before getting into PR , I wanted to be a reporter. I was a journalism major, so most of my writing experience in college had a reporting angle. You report the facts. The initial press release offers only the basics, while the reporting fleshes out a story with real context, both pro and con.

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Landis PR

MARCH 4, 2024

Example: pitch a story on a newly opened hiking trail to an outdoors editor at a local newspaper who also has a following on social media. Go for a bylined article in a trade publication or research journal. Targeting those audiences that influence your target customer can cut through the digital clutter.

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PRSay

AUGUST 11, 2021

The practice of media relations resides at the intersection of what’s important to the organization and what the media and public value. In addition, relationships with reporters developed through media relations work will eventually become vital to any PR effort, especially in times of crisis communication. Newsletters gain clout.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 5, 2019

Tailored pitches have always been the key to success in media relations. Adding SEO and social data to pitches adds huge value for time pressed journalists. The 2019 Cision Global State of the Media Report contains useful insights for media relations practitioners seeking to cut through with their pitches.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

Interestingly, MRI-Simmons reports that while more than 80% of 100+ national magazines have lower readership than they did 10 years ago, nearly 90% of those magazines have maintained or increased readership over the past two years. And keeping in mind that a lot of news on social media originated with a reporter or media outlet.)

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I started writing in eighth grade for my middle school newspaper in 1999 and was hooked from there. Finish this sentence: If I am not reporting, I am … watching the news and spending time with family at home. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Don’t pitch story ideas, pitch sources.

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For three years I worked at The Oregonian —a top 25 newspaper. Not to generalize, but one of the many things I learned during that experience is that reporters often have similar personalities and ways of processing information. Here are 4 Ways You Can Think Like a Reporter and Create More PR Wins: 1.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Cision moves to eliminate the HARO brand Cision is pressing forward with the elimination of the Help a Reporter Out (HARO) brand. Reporters were getting more emails than ever – and traced many of them back to Vocus. When I arrived, all the angry reporter calls that used to our support line were re-routed to me. Click To Tweet 2.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 25, 2015

When I started out in PR, my focus was building relationships with the media who were mostly print journalists at newspapers and trade publications. As I found editorial success for my agency’s clients, I was able to branch out and pitch radio and television broadcast opportunities. Be flexible in your pitch.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Businesses looking to kickstart a PR campaign may shoot for stories in publications like The Wall Street Journal or New York Times. At the same time, every PR plan should include another type of media – relevant trade publications. Trade pubs may seem unglamorous, but they have their own kind of superpower.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In some cases, it means pitching bylines instead of stories. Trend #2: Big-time news is increasingly reported from one of three cities. More consolidation means fewer outlets to pitch, which we have definitely seen in recent years. After all, reporters are human, too. As in, limited to paying readers of the publication.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I’m the senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch, where I focus on all the ways — present and future — that people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. Since then, I have worked in weekly and then daily newspapers, online media outlets and magazines. What advice do you have for PR people who want to pitch you?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I’m the Editor of Green Car Reports, so on a daily basis, it’s my job to keep up on “green” vehicle news—that’s related to efficiency, electrification, emissions, and manufacturing tech. Some of the early reporting I did on why the Porsche Taycan’s shift to 800 volts was so important is a great example. I’ve noted each of these.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 24, 2017

Getting in depth knowledge of the media landscape is one of the many perks of working in public relations. I mean, let’s face it, publicists are used to pitching all day, whether a product or corporate byline, it teaches you the value of research and how a well-thought out pitch can be used to tell a story. Kevin Mejia.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Jennifer Ramsay is the editor-at-large at Endeavor Business Media, where she curates the Market Moves newsletters, a series of cross-industry publications pulled together from various Endeavor Business Media outlets covering electric vehicles, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure and cybersecurity. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I’m a reporter with Automotive News covering suppliers and electric vehicles. I was a reporter for Automotive News Canada in Toronto. I started before that as a reporter and editor for my college newspaper and interned at Bloomberg News, where I got my first taste of automotive reporting.

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Landis PR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Publishing company Pressbooks defines media relations as “the mutually beneficial relationship between journalists and public relations professionals.” . Several years ago, I attended a conference that was geared to both reporters and public relations professionals. Personalize pitches to each reporter/editor. .

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Please provide your job title and media outlet(s), as well as a brief description of your duties: Automotive Reporter, Detroit Free Press. If a story topic interests me, I expect I will report and write a better story. My first journalism job after college was as a copy editor at a small newspaper in a suburb of Washington, D.C.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

For over a decade, I was the editor-in-chief of AutoblogGreen and today I freelance for a good roster of publications, including Car and Driver, Forbes, Automotive News, SAE Automotive Engineering and others. It was for the local newspaper (I miss those) and about a kid getting his Eagle Badge. Pay rate per word. :).

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Barokas

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

My professors assumed every journalism student knew what PR was, so I never sought clarity on the job description, because I didn’t want to discredit my reporter title. I quickly fell in love with the field, and started to build my PR resume, but I’m thankful I worked as a reporter first. You learn to tell stories about everything.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

You’re about to be thrust into the fascinating world of public relations – where people naturally speak their own private language with various business slang and PR lingo. When a journalist decides to transition to public relations, they say they’re “going over to the dark side.” PR intern’s guide to agency lingo.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I’m Seth Clevenger, managing editor for features at Transport Topics , a weekly newspaper and multimedia outlet dedicated to covering trucking and the freight transportation industry. Later that year I moved to Smyrna, Delaware, for my first full-time journalism job at a local newspaper that was part of a small family-owned chain at the time.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

We are a business-to-business weekly newspaper covering the trucking and logistics industries. During that school year, our class was regularly assigned a book report. We would walk to the school library, select a book, then write a report. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Know your industry.

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HMA Public Relations

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Today's feature comes from Ellen O'brien, a reporter and photographer with Jewish News. Ellen grew up reading local newspapers and magazines and recently graduated from the Walter Cronkite School at ASU. Learn more about her and the types of pitches she is accepting by clicking the link.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Being one of the first to report on Elon Musk’s strategy of using government subsidies and support to build is business empire. I have been in journalism all my life starting with interviewing soon-to-be President Jimmy Carter for my high school newspaper. Don’t pitch things outside of my interest area. I am very fortunate.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Why is the public relations industry not representative of the organisations or the public that it serves? Why is public relations conflated with media relations? Ever since Ivy Lee sent the first press release on 28 October 1906 public relations have been associated with media relations. Another history lesson.

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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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