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BPR’s Top 25 PR Projects: Center for Automotive Research’s Changing of the Guard at MBS (2011-2012)

Bianchi Biz Blog

The firm worked to arrange deep-dive interview sessions for CAR executives at key automotive media outlets. Efforts have ranged from supporting speakers to coordinating ride and drives to pitching and overseeing interviews. In addition, for 24 consecutive years we have traveled to Traverse City, Mich.

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Meet the Media: Vince Bond, Reporter at Automotive News

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I completed six internships at various outlets in Michigan and Ohio before getting hired at Automotive News in 2012, my first full-time gig. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Don’t pitch story ideas, pitch sources. It would have to be the PR folks who send mass emails with irrelevant pitches.

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

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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. Ultimately though, I decided I liked the idea of being immersed in an industry in a way only trade publications can immerse you. Have a reason.

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

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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. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Editors are busy and flooded with emails and PR pitches all the time.

Meeting 60
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Meet the Media: Josh Fisher, Executive Editor or FleetOwner

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Covering Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was an adventure that included a lot of adrenaline and little sleep in the “early days” of using social media for good. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Describe the craziest or most fun story you have written. I always love providing a valuable service to readers.

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

PRSay

There are infinite ways to talk about our relationship with the outdoors,” Thurston said in an interview with PRsay. Are CVBs and other tourism groups pitching you now to come and visit? The closest comps are my 2019 TED Talk and my 2012 memoir, “ How to Be Black.” John Elsasser is the publications director at PRSA.

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Adapting Strategies for Effective Storytelling in the Social Media Era

PRSay

With the tremendous growth of social media in recent years, the PR landscape is continuously evolving and causing public relations professionals to adapt to the 24/7/365 news cycle we now work in as well as the instant, viral nature in which news breaks and spreads.