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Meet the Media: Michael Freeze, Features Editor at Transport Topics

Bianchi Biz Blog

We are a business-to-business weekly newspaper covering the trucking and logistics industries. The most fun was a feature I wrote about the “Right to Repair” around 2004. I fell in love with writing when I was in sixth grade. We would walk to the school library, select a book, then write a report. Know your industry.

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Meet the Media: Doug Newcomb, Freelance Automotive Journalist  

Bianchi Biz Blog

I currently write for Automobile magazine, Autoblog , Popular Mechanics , TrueCar , PCMag.com , WardsAuto , SAE Engineering and others. Probably a feature for Corvette Quarterly in 2004, when I profiled racecar driver Leilani Munter and her high-school friend. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

The industry has a wholly unrealistic expectation that graduates should be oven ready, and able to immediately undertake a stakeholder audit, write a blog, or pitch media. The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) and Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) exist to protect the rights of copyright holders. It’s a reasonable enough purpose.

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Research Shows Journalists Want More Multimedia from PR Pros

Beyond PR

In 2004, Jon Forsythe was one of just a handful of Washington Post journalists who were given a video camera and told to go report on the news. I can write three articles in the amount of time I can shoot a video.”. Send More Multimedia in PR Pitches. Many of those images show up in magazines, newspapers and blogs, she says.

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Turn Off the Cloaked Reporter in this Transparent World

Bad Pitch Blog

These reporter queries look like this: • Faintly Veiled: A reporter reveals his/her name, but only provides a vague description - not the name - of the media outlet (often times, they are freelance reporters still pitching said story). We take great care to ensure our pitches are on target and are consistent with our own goals.

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