Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I’m Seth Clevenger, managing editor for features at Transport Topics , a weekly newspaper and multimedia outlet dedicated to covering trucking and the freight transportation industry. Later that year I moved to Smyrna, Delaware, for my first full-time journalism job at a local newspaper that was part of a small family-owned chain at the time.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

As special publications editor for The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire (the fifth oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S.), Back when I was a newspaper reporter, I wrote a series of articles about an embattled high school principal accused of misconduct, including secretly altering the grades of several students.

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PR for Anyone

MARCH 31, 2020

David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, VC strategic partner, and bestselling author of 10 books, including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR." His eleven books have sold close to a million copies in 30 languages from Albanian to Vietnamese.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I’ve known Lin Pophal for years through her work as a writer for eContent , HR Executive , and others; have pitched her client stories and my own thought leadership topics (I’m in her eContent story on content curation tools ). I was, of course, thrilled to be in it and eager to read Lin Pophal’s book.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I was surprised at how well these performed but then, there isn’t another publication that provides such a service. 45-plus Places to Find Communications and Public Relations Jobs. Notified by Intrado is a Promising PR Software Tool that Supports 5 Central Duties in Public Relations [PR Tech Briefing]. Thank you for reading!

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. What is public relations?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

She also very sweetly sent me a signed copy of her book on how to be empowered in the workplace as the underrepresented. I come from a creative writing background; I’m great at writing and editing, but before I took my job at Microwave Journal journalism hadn’t crossed my mind since working with my high school newspaper. Use people.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper. From there I went on to freelance for community newspapers around Milwaukee, and got a part-time job at a business-to-business publisher covering aviation for three sister magazines. What is the motive behind this pitch?

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Solo PR Pro

JULY 5, 2022

That healthy habit came in handy in the first phase of my career as an investor relations professional for newly public technology companies in Silicon Valley during the 80s and early 90s. I write or pitch media in the mornings, so I am only available beginning at noon daily. in order to make early morning workouts and then 8 a.m.

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Cision

JANUARY 28, 2016

A former reporter for The Los Angeles Times, Stuart recently joined public relations company Sitrick & Co. But the newspaper climate has changed. where I could learn from Mike Sitrick, the guy who wrote the book on strategic and crisis PR, I jumped at it. I always thought I’d be… a newspaper reporter.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I got my start at my high school newspaper and was the editor of my college newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum at West Virginia University. My first journalism job after college was as a copy editor at a small newspaper in a suburb of Washington, D.C. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Has digital media – from Huffington Post , Google News and BuzzFeed to Kindle e-books, Twitter and (God help us) more than 8 million blogs – finally vanquished Print? In the words of Ruth Jamieson’s new book on the indie mag explosion, “Print Is Dead. Long Live Print”! An alumnus of the St.

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PRSay

JUNE 18, 2019

How do you decide on updates to the book, and how frequently do you amend the online version? What do people — especially in marketing, communications and public relations — say about why they decide to use AP style for their organizations? Writing in AP style means they’re speaking the language of the people they are pitching.

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Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2015

At my first agency job in New York, I worked alongside a media relations specialist who wanted each of his annual coverage reports to be as thick as a phone book. Since she wasn’t part of the pitch team, she never understood what an uphill battle it was to get interest. If you’re not pitching, you’re not relevant. .

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Cision

MARCH 30, 2016

In this interview, he shares the pitch that got him the most coverage, his strategies for building relationships with the media and why social media is so important. Given my background and our legislative successes, I feel like we are in a unique position to expand our public affairs practice. . What constitutes a successful pitch?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I started before that as a reporter and editor for my college newspaper and interned at Bloomberg News, where I got my first taste of automotive reporting. I have a habit of buying too many books or records before I’m caught up with what I already have, so I’m always trying to catch up. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 29, 2016

Amid “cheesy graphics” and a sloppy effort to render the comic book exclamations – “Pow!” Years later, as a college student at Indiana University, he developed a course on comic books. They are using my money to teach our kids comic books?!”. ” “Zap!” ” and “Wham!”

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I’ve been a participant or contributor to various pieces of buff-book hijinks over the years, like the first Battle of the Beaters, which became a sort of series for Car and Driver. I hadn’t been part of the high-school newspaper, and I thought that good writing was just something you needed to have in whatever field you chose.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Instead, you want to understand and counsel businesses on why and how the public uses these technologies. You’d have to go all the way back to the days of my early career when I was behind a typewriter and faxing news releases to newspaper editorial departments. The disruption is never-ending. We can’t afford to be reactive anymore.

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PRSay

JUNE 5, 2023

Are CVBs and other tourism groups pitching you now to come and visit? I’ve told a lot of stories in many formats throughout my career: cable television, YouTube series, podcasts, books, public speaking, social media live events, standup comedy shows. John Elsasser is the publications director at PRSA.

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Public Relations Sydney

AUGUST 18, 2014

For this reason, it is essential to research the publication and the type of readers before you contact the journalist with your story idea. Here are our five top tips for finding great PR story angles you can use to pitch to journalists. Here are our five top tips for finding great PR story angles you can use to pitch to journalists.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 18, 2017

public relations people. Mind you, not ALL public relations people. You receive the basics, such as the journalist’s name, email address, phone number, beat, pitching tips, and contact methods. So if you aren’t following a reporter on social, you’ve already hurt your changes of pitching them.”.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

The world-renowned PR expert Maxim Behar was interviewed for MeTV , the first Indian / South Asian TV Channel from Australia, by Sukruti Narayanan, the MeTV Director of Public Relations and Business Growth. He is a leading public relations expert with huge experience, having strong presence in many countries all over the world.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 22, 2018

You craft the perfect pitch and reach out to the influencers who have served you well in the past — as well as some new ones who cover your space and seem like a good fit for your audience. As a PR pro, after every communications campaign, you may often ask yourself — what was the impact of my efforts? Broadcast – television and radio.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

Instead, they pitched me on a position they had open. I’ve also worked on the other side of the editor’s desk, assigning and helping develop other writers’ articles and helping plan publications’ strategies. My daily newspaper of choice is…newspaper? I always thought I’d be…a comic book artist.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Coming out of college, I was more focused on public speaking and speechwriting than general public relations. Public speaking was more exposed, intimate and immediate in how it connected the communicator and the audience in real time, allowing them to play off each other. My daily newspaper of choice is…The Washington Post.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve gotten a couple clients and a former employer into the Wall Street Journal over my career, and that photo in Roll Call is right up there with them in my book. A reporter from a regional paper responded to one my pitches asking if we’d offer complimentary tickets. The next day, that photo was on the cover of Roll Call.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Become A Public Relations Star December 14th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Mike Doman I recently had the pleasure of sitting on the admissions panel for a PR course. He also got a job out of it.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Former pitch man for the President, Jay Carney , came out swinging in a big way for Amazon today. How does this very public knock-down, drag out fight help the Times sell more newspapers or Amazon more books? by Frank Strong. Nobody wins in a knock-down, drag-out fight. Brace yourselves, the memes are coming.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2017

At my first agency job, the majority of my day was spent faxing press releases to media outlets, and taping newspaper and magazine articles into giant “clip books” while calculating the number of estimated reader impressions achieved. I remember asking myself, “Does the client even look at these clip books?

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

66% said newspapers. Email takeovers – some trade media publications offer this option but call it something else. Often B2B marketers will use these to send white papers and pitch webinars but again thought leadership content is a good option here. 52% said online display ads; (I have a bridge for sale too!).

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Page three of the FT, an hour on Sky News, wall-to-wall ITN coverage, Today, the World Service and the front or inside front pages of many of the world’s leading newspapers. To be fair, search engine optimisation in those days required a fair bit of technical skill and was a completely different discipline to public relations.

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Mark My Words

MARCH 9, 2021

The arrival of rapidly growing global streaming services like Netflix and Spotify has dramatically altered the power structure of the world’s media industry, with national TV, radio and newspapers competing with Spotify’s 345 million monthly users and Netflix 204 million global subscribers. She wrote the rule book of the modern royal.

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Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 31, 2006

If you want to generate more coverage for your client, pitch less. Spend the time applied to ripping a list, spamming the hell out of it and then dialing for dollars on real media relations—well-informed, customized pitches to specific outlets that will be interested in the news. The moral of this snarky story?

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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

As you update your media lists, don’t just look at whether or not a contact is still at a publication. Regularly assess whether they and the publication are still covering the topics you’re pitching them on. Conversely, don’t disregard publications that aren’t currently covering your niche. Be resourceful and respectful.

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Bad Pitch Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Here is a decent pitch (DP) from RLM pr. Why do some companies always know about huge public contracts and why don’t all of us? For information or b-roll, write to Some Shmuck, VP of RLM Public Relations 212 741-5106 x14 or someshmuck@rlmPR.com. But then I remembered one. I can share. 30 - Why was this so memorable for me…?

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PR for Anyone

JUNE 29, 2021

How to Be on TV Shows: Think about what is going on in the world right now, what is trending, what holidays are coming up and think about how you can pitch a story around that. Why this pitch appealed to the media : The news at this time were mostly putting stories out that revolved around COVID-19 information. Want Publicity?

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