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Out-of-Work Writing Talent Means Huge Opportunity for Brands

PR 20/20

In 2008, the financial climate started to take a turn for the worse in the United States and around the globe. Nonmedia companies, who in some cases had robust print custom magazines, began to lay off portions of their content teams. It includes 13 strategies marketers need to employ now. Download it free today.

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Met the Media: Ryan Gehm, Editor-in-chief at Truck & Off-Highway Engineering

Bianchi Biz Blog

I also write the occasional story for our Automotive Engineering and ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazines. And if you’re pitching based off our editorial calendar, know that we’re working two to three months in advance on feature stories for the print magazine. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Bylines, Surveys & Tweets: When Did PR Get So Boring?

Cision

My first taste of the working world came from the print shop my grandfather owned and operated since 1941. Life in the print shop was not for me – not like anyone ever suggested it should be. I could escort a tech executive to a taping at CNBC in the morning and write a set of key messages for an energy client in the afternoon.

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Meet the Media: Cristina Commendatore, Editor in Chief of FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

As chief editor, I lead all FleetOwner’s content planning efforts for both print and digital. In my role today, the most fun stories I get to write come from test-driving trucks. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer.

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Career Development Tips for the 2018 Professional

Waxing UnLyrical

Here are a few ways to write a resume which is similar to a job posting: Read the required skills section of the job posting and find achievements or examples which prove you are skilled in this area. Write Off Job Expenses. Think of the cost of gas traveling for interviews, new work clothes and printing costs.

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International Conference Preview: Bob Woodward on the Importance of Investigative Journalism

PRSay

It’s not just a matter of getting a version and printing it. Do a comprehensive look at what you’re trying to write about. Pew Research says newsroom employment has dropped 25 percent since 2008. “It’s a question of figuring out what the story is. Well, that’s not good.

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Behind the Headlines With Rich Oppel

Cision

I ended 45 years in journalism when I retired as editor of the Austin American-Statesman in 2008, so it didn’t feel like a “switch” so much as completing one phase of my life. We define media very broadly, from traditional print media to the gossipmonger with a following on social media. Read closely what they write.