Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

While working in local news in the Northeast, I covered a few big hurricanes and major blizzards that ravaged the area. 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. I started off covering education and other local issues.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I covered Hurricane Sandy in Connecticut in 2012. Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

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. Have a reason. Provide assets.

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PRSay

JUNE 5, 2023

Are CVBs and other tourism groups pitching you now to come and visit? Every local PBS affiliate has seemingly been doing marketing for it. The closest comps are my 2019 TED Talk and my 2012 memoir, “ How to Be Black.” It’s over 300 member stations with local accountability. How is the show promoted?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

I was the news editor of a small daily newspaper in Alabama. My wife worked for the same newspaper at the time, and she stopped by their house to pick up some photos that we ran with the story, and she was warmly greeted. Metro weekly newspaper that no longer exists. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

Newspapers are cutting staff. KSTP-TV told me in August of 2012 that they weren’t renewing my contract and they would give me a year to find another job. Yet I don’t think the PR-Journalist relationship is over–especially at the local level. But, in general, reporters don’t want a product pitch on a press release.

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