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

Bianchi Biz Blog

I covered Hurricane Sandy in Connecticut in 2012. That was my first experience really using social media and the publication’s website to break news and keep residents in the community informed. Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting.

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Meet the Media: Vesna Brajkovic, Managing Editor of Heavy Duty Trucking & TruckingInfo.com

Bianchi Biz Blog

I’ve written a story at least once a week since 2012 when I walked into the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s independent, student-run newsroom unannounced asking for an assignment. By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper.

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Facebook’s Current Woes Symptomatic of Raging Content Saturation

PRSay

You could optimize a news release, and Google News indexed it just the same as an article from a real newspaper! Then in 2012 they took the company public and revenue actually mattered. Your audiences would find it when they searched, so why bother with those pesky reporters? And Facebook actually showed them your posts!

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Meet the Media: Vince Bond, Reporter at Automotive News

Bianchi Biz Blog

I started writing in eighth grade for my middle school newspaper in 1999 and was hooked from there. I completed six internships at various outlets in Michigan and Ohio before getting hired at Automotive News in 2012, my first full-time gig. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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Changes in journalism impacting PR

Prakkypedia

The report stated: “The committee was particularly struck by the number of journalist jobs that have been lost in the last few years, which some evidence suggested was approximately 3000–3200 positions between 2012 and late-2017. There’s a common thread to that list, of course: social media.

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Talking About the Great Outdoors: Q&A With Acclaimed Storyteller Baratunde Thurston

PRSay

Thurston is a speaker at PRSA’s Travel and Tourism Conference, held June 20-23, at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, Wis. The closest comps are my 2019 TED Talk and my 2012 memoir, “ How to Be Black.” Each station has email lists and mailers, and other forms of promotion.

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Sting Learns Painful Lessons in Heated Dispute

Reputation Specialist Michael Toebe

It seems Sting wasn’t considering how his initial communication was being experienced and interpreted and while that is understandable and he meant no harm, when it comes to other people’s emotions and reputation, we would be wise to be extremely careful in communicating anything that could be considered reasonably hurtful and harmful.