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

Bianchi Biz Blog

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. At my desk, I just stared at the picture and started writing. Get to know the editors you pitch to.

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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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After a Recent Three-Way Tie Up, Onclusive Acquires Critical Mention

Sword and the Script

million over five venture rounds since 2004. As I write this post, the current asking price on OpenSea is $36,099.60. Michael Bade, CTO and co-founder of Truescope writes “predictions” about capabilities he says PR software will include this year. Cision also pitched microsites for ESG solutions a few months ago.

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Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004 or early 2005…and then interest waned. c) What makes a great pitch?

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8 Ways to Make Your Press Release More Effective

Cision

– Richard Toohey, writing in Public Relations Quarterly , Fall 1972. Steve Radick of Cramer-Kasselt (2014) writes that the entire customer journey is oftentimes ignored by communication professionals. Empathy for your audience(s). Instead we focus precisely where we want to interject ourselves to best accommodate our agenda.

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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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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. Use Multimedia to Tell a Better Story.