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

Bianchi Biz Blog

A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. Born and raised in the Pittsburgh area, not far from where SAE International is headquartered, I’m a diehard Steelers and Penguins fan. Tell us a little about yourself (family, interests, hobbies, background, etc.)

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Susan Stoga

Solo PR Pro

Upon graduating, Susan decided to leave reporting behind and instead put her skills to work doing media relations for a major retailer back in her hometown. When I first left my corporate job, I could not believe how much business was out there for someone who had strong media relations skills and good crisis experience,” Susan says.

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Industry Consolidation Continues Among PR Vendors; PR Tech Sum: Onclusive, SocialChorus, Teletrax, iQ Media, Agility PR Solutions

Sword and the Script

According to a press release, channel management: “Allows team and frontline managers, outside of the internal communications team, to create and post rich content – including videos, images, links, articles and notes – within approval guidelines….For 3) Teletrax by 4C and iQ Media merge and form Kinetiq.

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Meet the Media: Erica Schueller, Editorial Director, Commercial Vehicle Group at Endeavor Business Media

Bianchi Biz Blog

I work with the lead editors of each CVG brand to support implementation and continuation of consistent internal processes. Besides a brief stint at a community bank in 2009 (thanks to the recession), I’ve always worked as a business-to-business editor reporting on some aspect of transportation.

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What My PR Degree Would Look Like Today

Waxing UnLyrical

I finished my masters degree in PR and corporate communication at the end of 2009 – only 19 months ago. Media relations: Yes, it is important for you as a communicator to be able to identify and connect with new media influencers, but the ability to build relationships with traditional media remains a vital PR skill.

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Bad PR Measurement Gets a Smackdown

Waxing UnLyrical

Are reputation, issues management and media relations part of a promotional effort? Folks, Sean moderates #icchat on a regular basis, focusing on internal communications. He also is an adjunct professor of Public Relations at Kent State University since 2009, where he teaches a new course on PR Metrics beginning in 2011.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

Table 1: James Grunig and Todd Hunt’s Four Models of Public Relations (1984) Excellence Theory The so-called Excellence Theory[ii] developed over the next decade as a result of a research programme commissioned by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1984.