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Meet the Media: Josh Fisher, Executive Editor or FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

Can you tell us what types of stories, trends or issues are on your radar now? While working in local news in the Northeast, I covered a few big hurricanes and major blizzards that ravaged the area. I had my first staff byline at a small Connecticut newspaper in 2001. I started off covering education and other local issues.

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Prediction: 50% of media relations positions will be eliminated in 10 years

Communications Conversations

On one hand, I see a lot of people still working in an environment similar to 2001. FACT: Local media continues to struggle as well. The 10 pm local news. And that’s exactly what I want to talk about today. You see, it seems to me we’re at a bit of a crossroads. Mainstream media still dominated the landscape.

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Meet the Media: John Baxter, Freelance Writer

Bianchi Biz Blog

Can you tell us what types of stories, trends or issues are on your radar now? In addition to working for OO as we called it, I wrote some for CCJ ( Commercial Carrier Journal ), and then after the sale of the CCJ group of magazines to Randall-Reilly in 2001, for CCJ, Overdrive , and Truckers News.

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How to Spy on Your Competition and Steal Their Secrets

Beyond PR

The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. The rise of the robots has been predicted since we watched HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey” in what was another world in 1968. Competition for attention and business has never been fiercer…ever.

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The Best Journalism Movies

Landis PR

I was really excited when the movie “All the President’s Men” hit my local theater in 1976. Everything happens to the main characters in the universe of their jobs…which is a lesson on life/work balance that was being taught waaaay before recent trends. (By

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Today, we use many information sources to see what is going on around us, locally, nationally, and globally, with more emerging all the time. On September 11 th , 2001, a British MP said "this is a good day to bury bad news" as the world focused on the 9/11 attacks. Mass communication aims to meet these needs.

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