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. I had my first staff byline at a small Connecticut newspaper in 2001. I started off covering education and other local issues. Check out some of Josh’s recent articles: C.H.

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

In this interview, she discusses how she came to her success, what makes her choose to cover a story and how communication professionals can improve their pitching strategies. It’s frustrating when they take days to return a call regarding an interview with a client you are desperate to get a hold of.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? Wires are essential for news organizations wanting to get a jump on a story, and they complement the news organizations’ staff by covering stories the local papers can’t or won’t get to themselves. What is the wackiest story you have covered?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. Our Commercial Vehicle Group also won editorial excellence awards for investigative journalism, a technology article on hydrogen trucks, and editorial use of data. In my role today, the most fun stories I get to write come from test-driving trucks.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

They were reunited for a “Thelma and Louise” weekend in Las Vegas, and I tagged along to document it as they raced Corvettes at a local track, rode a mechanical bull at a bar on the Strip and went sand boarding at Dumont Dunes outside Vegas. Fun assignment! How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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PR for Anyone

AUGUST 6, 2020

See this article from the Wall Street Journal that discusses why. Why this pitch appealed to the media : Nurse Curry serves a local community, Hampton Roads, Virginia. She took a national story/trend and brought it local. The specific program is Coast Live that highlights local businesses.

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

But it can still provide large returns on investment by generating earned media coverage that doesn’t cost anything but your time and can elevate your client’s profile with one well-placed article or interview. Which students at your local college or university are already making the world a better place, and how are they doing it?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I manage the day-to-day operations of WardAuto.com, writing and editing articles for the publication that traces its roots to 1924 as a source of automotive industry news, data and insight. I receive numerous emails every day and it helps if the PR person has suggestions for articles that are relevant to our readers. Slow response.

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Cision

JANUARY 28, 2016

In this interview, Stuart discusses his motives for making the switch, the value of a news background and the intersection of journalism and PR. But the newspaper climate has changed. I’m confident that the skills I developed in more than two decades as a newspaper reporter will serve our clients well. Rapid Fire Round.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

I think this article is one we’ll reference back to for quite some time. 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. It covers many big issues in a digestible way.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 24, 2021

One former employer bought a full-page ad in a major local newspaper, and after that, every pitch I sent in seemed to merit an interview and an article. For example, over the 20-plus years, I’ve been in PR, multiple editors at various trade publications have responded to pitches for ad money with a nod and wink.

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PR Fuel

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Did you know most newspapers publish upwards of 200 articles a day ? They may also be interested in local business success stories. If you’re pitching to local media, then think about the local angle. Good headlines accurately sum up the article, but they also generate interest. Does anyone else care?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

They expect our articles to dive deep into the technical details and the development process. A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. and tell their development story is always fun. What elements or characteristics do you look for in a story, and why?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

I assign articles to our in-house and freelance staff, work with our graphic artist for our print layout and designs, and work with our sales and management team to ensure our content meets our editorial mission and help with sales. I am Editor-in-Chief of Fluid Power World and Senior Editor on Design World.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

In this interview, Neil discusses his background as a journalist, what it’s like working in the technology industry and the changing role of the media. I’ve written everything from daily news reports, to feature-length articles, to opinion and editorial pieces, to product reviews, to interviews and profiles and so on.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Initial interviews with their communications team revealed the Centre was up to some interesting things: • How researchers are making plants more tolerant to drought. • Local TV, radio, newspapers, and trade magazines all conducted interviews and ran stories in response to our ideas. #2

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PR Fuel

JUNE 11, 2020

Newspapers have less influence, and we can be our own publishers, right? When a reporter covers your launch, interviews your CEO, or praises your service, consumers tend to have a higher degree of trust than when they get the information directly from the company. How do you get the attention of that newspaper’s reviewer?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2022

But if I have to pick one, I think it would be the articles I have written about the U.S. My first article on the project also holds a special place in my memory as it was the first big article I wrote after I started in B2B journalism in which I had come up with the idea and it wound up being the cover story for a print issue.

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 30, 2023

I saw a column from Scott in a local newspaper and reached out to invite him to be a guest. I’ve been the chapter ethics officer here in Knoxville for three years, so we’ve addressed some of these over that time in local programming. As I pointed out in the article itself, muckraking is not a term that’s new.

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Maxim Behar

JANUARY 3, 2021

Maxim Behar shares his experience as an author and interesting facts about his best-selling books for Ramona Portelli's Maltese online media in section Author Interviews. 03.01.2021. Mr. Behar, your name appears in so many capacities, achievements, and titles over the years… Who are you, indeed?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

It was for the local newspaper (I miss those) and about a kid getting his Eagle Badge. Before that, I was the editor of an Arts & Entertainment magazine and covered lots of local politics in Michigan and Hawaii as well as writing personal essays from my time spent living in Japan. Cooking, hiking or playing board games.

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Mora Communications

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Patients generally search the web and many times look to news programs and articles of experts discussing the topics they are most concerned with. It is this credibility and validation that creates trust with new patients who have read your articles or seen you interviewed on a topic that affected them.

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PR Fuel

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Newspapers have less influence, and we can be our own publishers, right? When a reporter covers your launch, interviews your CEO, or praises your service, consumers tend to have a higher degree of trust than when they get the information directly from the company. How do you get the attention of that newspaper’s reviewer?

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PR Fuel

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Newspapers have less influence, and we can be our own publishers, right? When a reporter covers your launch, interviews your CEO, or praises your service, consumers tend to have a higher degree of trust than when they get the information directly from the company. How do you get the attention of that newspaper’s reviewer?

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

You can measure how many people have read your article, how many have liked it, and how many have shared it. You can't do that sort of thing in a newspaper or on TV. Host: Then in those years when you were in the plant you made your first newspaper? We wanted to make a serious newspaper. I lay flowers and remember her.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree.

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The Resolution Blog

APRIL 9, 2019

I’m working with a food company at the moment and we’re finding that, through the process, the typical publications and blogs are coming up, but we’re also finding that local newspapers are a good target for them. You can listen to the full interview with Gini on the PR Resolution Podcast here.

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

As a newer service offering, TimesMachine provides The New York Times subscribers with a fully searchable archive of past newspapers, such as the July 20, 1969, article, " The Day Before The Moon Landing." We went on to interview Helgeson, his son, his father, a half dozen retired employees and current leadership.

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Reputation Us

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The Credit Union Times interviewed CU crisis experts, including LT Public Relations ‘s Casey Boggs, for the August 31st cover story (below), “Credit Union Crisis Planning Essential.” A local newspaper reporter picked up the incident from a police report and then two TV news stations did follow-up stories.

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Journalistics

APRIL 17, 2013

What stories do you tell to people that come to visit your office or interview for a job that you don’t share outside of your company? That might be interesting to somebody that reads the article you post. Think Local. How many of you have seen your community newspaper fold in recent years? How did you turn things around?

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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. They paid $25 per article and, yes, I did want $25.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 14, 2022

Searching Google News for “XYZ e-commerce brand” might turn up an article by a local newspaper about problems customers are having with your company’s shipping process. For more interesting articles from us on PR in a crisis check out some of our other articles: The Top Ten PR Crises of 2021. Final Thoughts.

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PR Conversations

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

This time, for a more thorough understanding of how the situation might have changed or evolved, I decided to conduct a series of opinion interviews with several Italian female PR practitioners (recognized by name at the end). All of the women interviewed are PR practitioners, some at the executive level. today’s biggest challenges.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

Newspapers are cutting staff. I thought this recent WaPo article was interesting. I thought this recent WaPo article was interesting. Yet I don’t think the PR-Journalist relationship is over–especially at the local level. I thought this recent WaPo article was interesting.

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PR Fuel

MARCH 17, 2020

Depending on your business, this might mean writing in-depth articles that show you’re an authority in your niche. You keep offering useful information in articles or videos. It may be a literal space like a billboard or a section of a newspaper or magazine page. You keep them up to date on relevant news.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This Business Insider article was a matter of that. A brief mention in a local blog, where client SteelHouse’s $2,000 vacation stipend was referenced, immediately struck me as PR gold. An interview took place, and the client was quoted in a story on a very strategic topic to Benefitfocus’ business.

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ZudePR

MARCH 22, 2018

In this 8,000-word article , you’ll discover how I – a 45-year-old Brit with no writerly mates – turned my pipedream into a not-so-shitty first draft of 87,000 words. As this article went to press a new post popped into my inbox. However, I spent most of the time working at my local health club for the sociability.

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