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

Bianchi Biz Blog

Vesna Brajkovic has been covering the transportation industry since 2016, including trucking, railroading, the automotive aftermarket and aviation. By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper. Once I graduated, I had to make the choice: newspapers or trade pubs.

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How to Generate Coverage From Conferences

Cision

What are you already doing to establish thought leadership and build brand awareness? Here are four steps to pitching reporters and getting coverage from your upcoming conference. Cision’s 2016 State of the Media Report, to be released Tuesday, found that the majority of journalists (93 percent) prefer to be contacted via email.

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45 Marketing and PR Statistics that Recap the Year We Had in 2020

Sword and the Script

Effect of thought leadership on reputation and sales. According to a study by Edelman, “48% of decision-makers spend an hour or more reading thought leadership content each week. In addition, “89% of decision-makers say thought leadership “can be effective in enhancing their perceptions of an organization.”

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Trust, Disclosure & Content: 3 Keys to Thought Leadership in the Media [Report Review]

Waxing UnLyrical

No matter how the world changes, three things seem to stay the same when it comes to building thought leadership: trust, transparency, and content. Doug reiterated this last point when I asked him for his take on thought leadership in the media. If the media feels misled, the chances of your story getting placed will be nil.

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Blogging vs. Press Releases vs. Coverage; Unscripted Marketing Links

Sword and the Script

Here are three thought-provoking links analyzing the role of blogging in thought leadership; the increased importance as a business marketing medium; and tactical tips for optimizing blog posts for SEO in 2016. Thought Leadership Isn’t A Content Strategy. Worse, it’s blogging for the sake of blogging.

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Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

It won’t happen, in fact the issue quickly becomes dismissed in CIPR communities because of deeply entrenched views and the PRCA’s assertive industry leadership. The industry has a wholly unrealistic expectation that graduates should be oven ready, and able to immediately undertake a stakeholder audit, write a blog, or pitch media.

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Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023

Sword and the Script

a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. In-house and agency teams will be hard at work supporting Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) with messaging that convinces their leadership colleagues and board of directors that preparing for cyber-attacks is critical.

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