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Meet the Media: Seth Clevenger, Managing Editor for Features at Transport Topics

Bianchi Biz Blog

I’m Seth Clevenger, managing editor for features at Transport Topics , a weekly newspaper and multimedia outlet dedicated to covering trucking and the freight transportation industry. Later that year I moved to Smyrna, Delaware, for my first full-time journalism job at a local newspaper that was part of a small family-owned chain at the time.

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How to Write a Media Pitch (That Will Get Coverage)

Buzzstream

Writing media pitches for data-led stories or studies is very different from writing a media pitch to promote the launch of a new product, service, or event. In this guide, I’ll be sharing my approach to writing media pitches, plus you’ll find a bunch of helpful tips and examples to assist you in writing your own.

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Fast Five Q&A With BusinessWeek Senior Writer Stephen Baker

Bad Pitch Blog

Previously - yes there was a previously - he worked at newspapers in El Paso, Texas; Ludlow, Vermont, and Caracas, Venezuela. Lo, a long time ago in May of 2005, his and Heather Green’s co-written cover story “Blogs Will Change Your Business” made quite an impact on corporate America. Again, like I said, this guy gets around!

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The Best Journalism Movies

Landis PR

(By Brianne Murphy Miller ) Almost Famous (2000) 2001 Academy Award Winner Based in the 1970s, “Almost Famous” follows William, a high-school-aged, aspiring rock journalist writing freelance articles for underground papers in San Diego. 2005) 2006 Academy Award Nominee “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

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Maxim Behar - special guest appearance in the local Shumen TV

Maxim Behar

And my next period is from 1985, when I was working in the newspaper “Rabotnichesko delo”, and one morning, as I was flipping through the pages, saw that the correspondent for Shumen, called Tsonyo Tsonev, sadly had passed away, may he rest in peace, very noble man. Just imagine what years we are talking about.

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

Masters in Communications

Way before newspapers, the Romans and Greeks used scrolls, Egyptians used papyrus, and ancient China used a form of paper to distribute information, even if that information was limited to an inner circle of elites or an educated few in those cases. China is credited with starting the world's first newspaper.

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2016: When PR Turned to the Dark Side

Flatiron Communications

In 2005, I started a PR-focused “weblog” that sought to make transparent an industry whose machinations could clearly benefit from more sunlight. I mean did it even matter that nearly every newspaper in the country published full-throated condemnations of Mr. Trump? The Unsinkable Kellyanne Conway (September 2016).