Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

That was my first experience really using social media and the publication’s website to break news and keep residents in the community informed. 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.

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Landis PR

OCTOBER 11, 2021

You may have noticed that the “calendar” section in your neighborhood newspaper, online newsletter or event site is starting to populate with things to do. For additional pre-event news, we created and pitched two pre-Safety Summit announcements: . Photo courtesy of Pixabay. By Robin Carr, LCI.

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HMA Public Relations

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Jewish News covers news of interest to and about the Jewish community throughout the Valley. Since I also loved reading the newspapers and magazines that my parents kept around our house (the Arizona Republic, The Atlantic, The Economist), I decided to pursue journalism – and here I am! Favorite local restaurants or other haunts?

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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. I haven’t looked back since.

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PR for Anyone

AUGUST 6, 2020

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. She provided local resources and her expertise as to how people in her community can care for their elderly loved ones. SPOILER ALERT: YES!

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

I have been in journalism or PR for 25 years — I went to Boston University for journalism and upon graduation, I worked as a business reporter for a local daily newspaper on the outside of Cleveland. After a few years hiatus doing community PR, I entered technical publishing when I was out of a job for a few months.

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

In today’s media environment, pitching reporters and editors has become a lost art. Which students at your local college or university are already making the world a better place, and how are they doing it? How is your local government benefitting the community? If so, how? Look closely and you’ll find plenty of stories.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Take a peek at the social communities for my biggest client (of 10 years now!), We’re pitching a lot of bylines to these kinds of pubs, and in many instances, I’m on the hook to take the first stab at the draft. Follow-up with the 30+ folks in the local mastermind group I manage with a note about our meeting tomorrow.

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PRSay

JUNE 5, 2023

Thurston is a speaker at PRSA’s Travel and Tourism Conference, held June 20-23, at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, Wis. Are CVBs and other tourism groups pitching you now to come and visit? Every local PBS affiliate has seemingly been doing marketing for it. How is the show promoted?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I enjoyed a 17-year career at several Detroit area newspapers, including 12 years at The Oakland Press in Pontiac, MI, before shifting gears and taking a job in public relations at Buick. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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PRSay

JANUARY 9, 2020

When we began this decade, many local newspapers had at least 10 more pages of non-syndicated content than they do today. And people still faxed pitches! And if you’re looking for avenues to explore in this arena, might we recommend building out messaging around sustainability, corporate citizenship and community relations.

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Barokas

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Give me a new product or a service and I’ll give you a press release and several different pitch angles. You learn to value the art of the pitch (and subject line). Reporters always say they receive hundreds of pitches a day, but they aren’t kidding. Even while working at small, local publications, I never had an empty inbox.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 16, 2019

Danielle Whitfield, Media and Public Affairs Executive, Newcastle Airport @daniellemalvina Northern boomerang: brands to Newcastle Christian Cerisola was motivated to move into PR after working for a provincial newspaper and receiving poorly targeted pitches. He described breaking a story about a pornographic video pirating ring.

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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. That kind of PR pitching reveals a shot-gun approach. What’s your message to PR and corporate communications professionals? Star Tribune , and.

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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! There is that group of people who just want to understand this without having to subscribe to a newspaper or listen to NPR. This is our audience.”.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

As more of us get our news digitally, newspapers have taken the hardest hit; however, the estimated total US daily newspaper circulation (print and digital combined) in 2022 was 20.9 Print media is the most trusted source of news in the world at 58% (vs.

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Bad Pitch Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

“Fear is the path to the dark side” - Yoda “Speed and sloth are (two of) the paths to bad pitches” – Kevin Dugan Wow, it’s (really) bad when we start ripping off quotes from Star Wars. There’s been an up tick in the number of pitches being sent to me twice. Would you prefer LOL Cats? Sorry, we’re dog people.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 27, 2011

We preferred pros local to Southern California, so that they could attend some events to get a feel for the brand, but it was not required. If you are not local, tell me how you think we can work together? Again, think of what your pitch says. Here’s what we were looking for and tips on rocking the interview: 1.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

On top of all that, she has also served as a DJ for the campus radio station, feature writer for both the student newspaper and yearbook, and as a sports nutrition PR intern. She hopes to combine her experience in human resources and her passion for public relations into a career in internal communications.

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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 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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Cision

MARCH 24, 2017

If you find the compelling human story in what you’re pitching, you’ll be successful. When you have newspapers that have existed for a century mailing their subscribers cardboard virtual reality goggles to use with their mobile devices, you know how important tapping into a user experience can be.

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PR Fuel

JULY 10, 2018

Because of this job-threatening pressure, it’s tempting to email blast that pitch, press release or fact sheet to every media outlet that seems remotely likely to cover your news. You must be brutally impartial when you answer: would you read your press release in a newspaper? This includes the editor of your small town newspaper.

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

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. Its UK office announced that it’s starting to cover more local news. Many of these sites have active communities of commenters, creating another opportunity to engage.

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Cision

MAY 18, 2017

Where these two networks excel, though, is that they all have communities that are open for the public to join and engage. Facebook Groups and LinkedIn Groups provide literally millions of broad or niche communities for you to search for and then search inside for potential conversations. Favorite a user’s tweet. Retweet a user.

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PR Fuel

MARCH 17, 2020

It may be a literal space like a billboard or a section of a newspaper or magazine page. Build your reputation through positive news stories, community involvement, and good reviews. For one thing, your local newspaper might not be the best fit for the story. PR Tips How To Pitch to a Publication.

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Beyond PR

MAY 18, 2017

Where these two networks excel, though, is that they all have communities that are open for the public to join and engage. Facebook Groups and LinkedIn Groups provide literally millions of broad or niche communities for you to search for and then search inside for potential conversations. Favorite a user’s tweet. Retweet a user.

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NewsWhip

JUNE 23, 2021

I mean, infrastructure is like the most local thing and the most global thing that you can imagine all at the same time. It’s local, because it literally becomes part of the world around you. So, how do you, as a firm, use data and analytics to support the development of these projects? Zach: Yeah, that’s exactly right.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

You may want to take on a client of your own to start gathering work examples – consider helping out a family or friend with their business, or volunteer for a local non-profit organization or church. You should be able to show examples of stories you pitched and placed, or campaigns you worked on and generated results for.

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PR Conversations

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I was a fresh out of university, in my first PR job in local government, at the former South Yorkshire County Council, in the North of England. He told me of the time he went to pitch for a major lawnmower account. Who would you describe as a PR hero or villain? One of my earliest bosses, Robert Davey. Who is your favourite writer?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2016

Earlier this week I used two free online tools test a hunch and audit the social shares and traffic to three communications vehicles used as part of the announcement: 1) a CMI blog post; 2) a UBM press release; and 3) traditional news to coverage in a highly credible local business publication. Marketing Integration Still Reigns .

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Communications Conversations

MAY 13, 2015

She is editor-in-chief of The Winonan , WSU’s campus newspaper; she is president of the WSU Public Relations Student Society of America chapter; and she is executive director of the WSU St. His work in analytics while at Penn State was used as part of a presentation to the local minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.

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