Landis PR

MARCH 29, 2021

and introduced them and their work to the community. It’s always so special to recognize someone and then see other community members reach out to them as well. I also would love to travel, immerse myself in a new culture, speak with locals and share the experience with readers. What story or stories are you most proud of?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper. It was an internal struggle deciding because I felt my heart was in community stories. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Barokas

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In my introductory journalism classes, my professors made it sound like PR professionals were magical fixtures at every event who could answer all of my questions. My professors assumed every journalism student knew what PR was, so I never sought clarity on the job description, because I didn’t want to discredit my reporter title.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Studying for a public relations or mass communications degree is the most traditional route into the industry today, but it’s not the only route. I know PR professionals with degrees in journalism, mass media, English, business communication, marketing, sports and more.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Please take a look at wardauto.com and understand our coverage areas and emphasis before sending me your pitches. And somewhere back in time, I was an elected school board member.

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Solo PR Pro

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

He developed a love of sports and print media at a young age, and set off to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in journalism. When he arrived on campus, however, he was amazed by the student-run broadcast stations, including radio and TV stations that would actually compete in the local market for ratings. “I

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Presspage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Finding traditional news media harder and harder to reach in the modern age, OhioHealth saw an opportunity to showcase their internal communications stories alongside their media relations efforts to truly create a one stop shop brand journalism website. Your team won an award from PRSA this year for best online newsroom.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When done well, social marketing programs can showcase corporate values, demonstrate commitment to community, and engage consumers, while providing needed resources for a group or cause. Don’t fall for a slick pitch. Charity Navigator, The Journal of Philanthropy and even the Better Business Bureau offer updated information.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

After learning that Ari Levy at CNBC was working on a longer lead piece about ad blocking, we quickly pitched him on the idea of talking to Vungle to learn more about the broader in-app advertising ecosystem and how they work with developers. Don’t forget about local media! Don’t forget about your local media.

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 21, 2017

CIPR members interested in contributing to the project should read the contributors’ guidelines and submit a pitch by 3 November, 2017. Is a lack of investment in local media damaging society? FuturePRoof Edition 3: the NHS at 70 and lessons for the wider PR community. It’s personal. It’s starting to reflect real life.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

I’ll never forget working shoulder to shoulder with the Minnesota Somali community to raise money and pack meals for their people during the East African famine. I was attracted by FMSC’s need for a solid communication infrastructure. But journalism does addict you to quick results and to working alone. Oh, so many.

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Mora Communications

MAY 15, 2017

Speak Your Business™, Ann’s signature system, uses neuromarketing and other tools to show business owners how to transform their messages into client magnets that increase revenues, win the pitch, and boost the bottom line. With Ann’s system, business owners talk to the “decision-maker” every time they communicate. GLOBAL TO LOCAL.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Know who you pitch. In an interview for this article, Keyris Manzanares, a multimedia reporter at Virginia Public Media, said she often receives email pitches from PR people. You might not go with whatever they’re pitching you,” she said, “but it might spark a bigger conversation about that story.” Understand newsworthiness.

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Beyond PR

APRIL 26, 2016

Although you may not have a dedicated PR department, one of the easiest ways to spread the word about your company is by establishing relationships with the local media in your area. Before you can begin pitching the media, though, you have to know who they are. Participate in community events. Partner with a charity.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The attraction was instant, she says, and at that young age, it was a deciding moment in her determination to pursue a career in either PR or journalism. I’ve learned what our journalist’s lives are like so that has helped me with understanding how I pitch external journalists. PR, marketing, sales and journalism.

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Flatiron Communications

JULY 5, 2022

My role was to keep the startup founders’ strict two-minute elevator pitches flowing — for three hours — which worked out to roughly 17 presentations/hour, including interstitials! I gravitated to the Centre Stage, but checked out the PandaConf (ad/marketing), and FourthEstate (media/journalism) stages. Notably, Ms. They don’t care.

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MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

If you're a Vice President of Corporate Communications, Chief Marketing Officer or PR Director in Minnesota, there are only a handful of local business media outlets that you. Paul Business Journal and, increasingly of late, Minnesota Business magazine. Paul Business Journal, and news director for SPNN-TV Neighborhood News.

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The revenue model for journalism is at best in flux, and at worst, in chaos. What does it mean for PR: Consider a publisher’s revenue and publishing models, as well as your need for exposure, when pitching a story. Serious journalism from unexpected sources. More data journalism.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 2, 2018

Our most challenging PR measurement moments: A5 The most challenging PR effort was a health communications campaign for a non-profit with outreach to remote areas. KPIs included local media interviews, toolkit downloads, and increased engagement at local chapter levels #measurepr. A3 I studied journalism in grad school.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

More than half of US adults (55%) found nine major news outlets (ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and NPR) to be credible. Media relations (and media pitching) continue to play a critical part in executing a successful PR strategic plan — and traditional media still matters.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It’s equal parts learning, networking, sharing and giving back to the community. When I talk to my friends who market local or regional businesses they imply that big brand marketing is easy because of large budgets and tons of resources. PR, marketing, sales and journalism. Want to be part of the Off Script series?

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

Melissa Thibodo is the whole package – she is incredibly bright with PR strategy, she is among our top student writers and editors in the journalism school, she has unparalleled relationship building skills, and she has a strong foundation of real-world experience. (written by Tiffany Gallicano) . Karie Mooney, @karies_korner.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Out of journalism school, I worked at the Galveston County Daily News , near Houston. I reported on NASA and crime, local government, League City, the bedroom community close to Mission Control/Johnson Space Center. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I like exclusives.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. Strengthening community-building and connections.

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Journalistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It was pure magic the first time I read an article in print that was the result of a story I pitched. Back then, if you called enough reporters, you would eventually find a couple willing to listen to your pitch – and perhaps one or two that would write a story. This is nirvana for a media relations professional. So how can you do it?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Wilson award for business journalism. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? My foray into journalism began by writing “letters to the editor” to several trucking trade pubs. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? For that effort, I earned my first Gold Kenneth R.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

The industry is undergoing one of its most significant evolutions in history, so we are producing lots of coverage about what that means in terms of new vehicles , investments, and profits, but also how this transition stands to affect consumers as well as the workers and communities that power the industry. I worked there for about 4.5

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Any startup, entrepreneur, or community player in the Atlanta startup ecosystem can add their blog – or individual post or announcement – for free. 2) How has blogging as a discipline or functional area evolved and how should it fit in the marketing or communications construct from a tech company’s perspective? You blog, we promote.

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Flatiron Communications

APRIL 13, 2021

” Such prominent breakaway journalists include Casey Newton, Jessica Lessin, and Graydon Carter who respectively left The Verge , The Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair to start their own subscription-based newsletters. It’s clearly not from a random pitch crossing an email inbox, no matter how provocative the subject line.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 This is how you wind up with a press release on a local ABC news affiliate in Buffalo even though your tech client is in San Francisco. Million and Eyes the U.S. Are you kidding?

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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

MAY 25, 2023

It is designed to be used along with Paine Publishing’s: 8 Quick Tips for Finding the Perfect Communications Measurement Vendor Checklist for Picking the Perfect Communications Measurement Vendor , and No Bullsh*t PR Measurement Glossary for what’s what. If you need local press, however, your choices are more limited.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

16) Social media fragments into niche communities. It will continue to split and fragment and silo itself into like-minded communities with incrementally less access for marketers.”. ” What’s happening in public relations is happening right now in independent journalism.

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

Enlightened Self-Interest: The Pitch Email. For me, as a local government employee, there are clear political boundaries. Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author (Everybody Writes), keynote speaker, and the world’s first chief content officer (MarketingProfs). “I share to be part of a community.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

Ideally, you majored in Journalism (or English) – or your PR or Communications program had a heavy concentration of writing-related courses. You should be able to show examples of stories you pitched and placed, or campaigns you worked on and generated results for. First, Writing Skills.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2016

Tools ranging from Live Journal, TypePad and Blogger — to WordPress, Tumblr and Medium. In effect, the champion organization for the commercialization of content marketing, and by extension blogging, has perhaps, unwittingly, also demonstrated why this trend for publishing, community-building and audience development is so important.

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