Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I had my first staff byline at a small Connecticut newspaper in 2001. After more than 15 years in local news in the New York City area, I grew from working in newspapers to running websites and working in live streaming news and sports, and more before I joined FleetOwner in 2017. I am a big Cincinnati sports fan (Go Bengals!).

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PR Insiders

MAY 5, 2021

But regardless of that ultimate audience, your first audience is always the editors, reporters, TV producers or others who receive your press release or pitch. That could be high school sports, health, the environment, city government, education or a host of others. So, a pitch that arrives on Monday right around 10 a.m.

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Landis PR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Robin Carr, Landis Communications, Ann Killion sports journalist and author, Joan Ryan, journalist and author. During a session featuring a panel of newspaper editors, one award-winning editor matter-of-factly stated, “PR people and reporters should have an adversarial relationship.” . Personalize pitches to each reporter/editor. .

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Landis PR

OCTOBER 11, 2021

You may have noticed that the “calendar” section in your neighborhood newspaper, online newsletter or event site is starting to populate with things to do. After a year and a half of (mostly) virtual events, many places around the world are offering in-person events, from concerts to lectures to wine fests and sports.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A couple of decades ago, media relations meant keeping in touch on a regular basis with the assignment editor of the local TV station and the city editor of the newspaper. In addition to maintaining healthy relationships with the local newspapers and TV stations, it also means opening up and nurturing rapport on so many other fronts.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

.” People with the skills to write a wide range of content – from bylines and features to blog posts and pitches – are invaluable to their internal teams and business partners. From driving a car to learning a sport to perfecting an instrument, the more you do something, the better you’ll get at it. Eliminate passive voice.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 30, 2018

For a better understanding of the mechanics of PR, from creating media pitches that work to delivering a well-crafted results report, no one does it better than the Cision Blog. These posts help PR writers come up with more relevant story angles and media pitches and craft them in a way that is more likely to gain journalist attention.

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Prakkypedia

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Several times a week, I receive emailed media releases or media pitches from a wide variety of firms with a wide variety of topics and “stories to sell”. It’s useful and instructive because I gain insights into how some PR practitioners pitch to media, how they structure their email pitches, how they write their media releases and more.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? A 30-minute newscast may have a mere 18 minutes for news, once commercials, weather and sports are subtracted. Got my first newspaper job at age 28 in Lansing, Illinois, and from there went to The Times of Hammond (Indiana), The Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Tribune.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Francis de Sales High School in Toledo, Ohio, where I spent four years working on the student newspaper, The Lance , finishing up as editor-in-chief in 1983. The valuable skills I learned from my high school teachers served me well for four years at the University of Michigan’s student newspaper, The Michigan Daily. E-mail is best.

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Cision

APRIL 7, 2016

For example, the major French political newspaper, Libération , recently noticed a 30 percent increase in time spent over a two-month span, publishing 150 articles each day. Last June, Facebook revamped its Trending Topics sidebar by splitting the list into five categories: politics, science, technology, sports and entertainment.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They’re the main players that make up the journalist line-up that you’ll find in every national newspaper in the UK today. The gig economy as a whole has boomed in the UK in recent years and the media has benefited from this; the number of freelancers contributing to newspapers and magazines feels at an all-time high.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

It’s rare nowadays that the morning newspaper or the evening news telecast breaks a story. During my journalism career, I can’t count how many times someone in PR pitched me on a story that I had already written or had nothing to do with my beat. We have to adapt to the immediacy of the media market. Rapid Fire Round.

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Action PR

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We put on ‘Ascent and Asana’ a free Climbing and Yoga event at Westway Sports and Fitness Centre. An idea might be perfect for regional coverage, but if you pitch it to nationals you may not have any success. However the main focus should still be on the local, surrounding newspapers and online publications.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Local TV, radio, newspapers, and trade magazines all conducted interviews and ran stories in response to our ideas. #2 Instead of pitching media on the products, we distributed a “creativity kit” for spring break, a time of the year when parents, grandparents, and caregivers are searching for projects to entertain their kids.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 18, 2017

Now that I’ve morphed from journalist to public relations guy, I’m aware of how vital it is to target precisely the right reporter – so you avoid becoming the PR pro who pitches the launch of a new Caramel Coconut Cherry ice cream flavor to a reporter who is dedicated to covering Islamic fundamentalism in Qatar. 8,800 freelance writers.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

I was the news editor of a small daily newspaper in Alabama. My wife worked for the same newspaper at the time, and she stopped by their house to pick up some photos that we ran with the story, and she was warmly greeted. Metro weekly newspaper that no longer exists. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Flatiron Communications

JULY 5, 2022

My role was to keep the startup founders’ strict two-minute elevator pitches flowing — for three hours — which worked out to roughly 17 presentations/hour, including interstitials! They typically range from heads of state to tech CEOs to A-list entertainment and sports celebrities to plain old influencers and thought-leaders.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

He mastered media relations managing information for national outlets like ESPN and Sports Illustrated. Courtney is the director of Allen Hall PR our student run public relations agency at the University of Oregon and the president of the American Women in Sports Media chapter. Justin McClanahan, @MNrube. Thomas Reese.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

When I was a teenager, something like 13-14 years old, I was publishing a neighborhood newspaper on a typewriting machine. One day, a big American petroleum company came, and they invited me for a pitch in public relations. A PR expert opens a newspaper and reads a bad story about a client. Maxim: It came naturally.

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PR Fuel

JULY 10, 2018

Because of this job-threatening pressure, it’s tempting to email blast that pitch, press release or fact sheet to every media outlet that seems remotely likely to cover your news. And you never know, with all the shakeups in the media these days, your beat reporter buddy may soon be sporting that “Editor-in-Chief” title after her name.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

If you read an article about an individual or organisation in your favourite magazine or newspaper you’re likely to view it far more favourably than if you heard the information direct. In August 1994 The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, began putting news and sports articles online on its website.

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