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Meet the Media: Josh Fisher, Executive Editor or FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

My main coverage and writing focuses are the transportation technology world, and government and regulations related to the trucking and freight industries, along with other website and magazine duties. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I’m the executive editor of FleetOwner magazine and FleetOwner.com.

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Behind the Headlines With Howard Stutz

Cision

I oversaw corporate communications for Anchor Gaming – a publicly traded slot machine developer – before the company was sold to International Game Technology in 2001. 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.

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Behind the Headlines with Sharon Hoffman

Cision

This week, Sharon sat down with me to discuss her passion for the industry, how social media has changed journalism, and how to stay ahead in the industry! Jane Pauley anchored it, and the team won an Emmy for Best News Magazine Report of 2001. What are you most looking forward to in this new position?

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Putting PR on the Table for Minority Students

PRSay

Many of us enjoy the variety of responsibilities, writing, fast career trajectory, constant evolution of tools, and working around tight deadlines. After a lot of persistence, I was offered a PR internship with the San Francisco 49ers during their 2001 summer training camp. PR is a great career field.

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3 former PR pros who made mid-career shifts and lived to talk about it

Communications Conversations

Current role: Full-time faculty member at the University of Minnesota – Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. But technically, I left my agency job to go back to grad school in 2001 (the week before Sept. What was your last PR job? What was the last date you worked in the PR field?

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By By the way, the WSJ reporter on that byline used to write for PRWeek). So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies?

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Paying for the destruction of public relations

PR Conversations

In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. Fifteen years later, as Davis has noted, promotional practice has become ubiquitous. Cosmoblogawards. Money can’t buy respect.