Communications Conversations

MAY 21, 2020

Last Saturday, there was a wonderful article in the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about groups of kids who had started neighborhood newspapers during the pandemic. And second, school newspapers are in my blood. First, let’s talk about this underground student newspaper, because it’s an interesting story.

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PR Insiders

JULY 12, 2021

Did you read that newspaper article in print or on your phone? Did you hear that interview on the radio or on a podcast? It’s no secret, of course, that the media landscape has changed drastically over the years – and the changes keep coming at a pace that sometimes makes us all dizzy!

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this interview, she shares her insights into how marketing has changed over time, the most valuable social media channel for marketers and how to make more of an impact as a marketing professional in your community. I craved community, comments, Twitter, Facebook (even if social media hadn’t happened yet… LOL).

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Medianet Australia

MARCH 6, 2024

Here, Jocelyn shares her experiences, from a Cadet Journalist for a regional newspaper to how she came to her current role covering culture in Brisbane. Today, Medianet is joined by Culture and Youth Affairs Reporter for the Brisbane Times, Jocelyn Garcia.

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PR for Anyone

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

There is nothing I love more than seeing the results of agents I’ve worked with when they are featured in the media. The easiest way to do this is pitching the local media. They found all these newspapers, cards, and historic documents in the wall of the home. The question I always get is what makes a good story?

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Stern + Associates

JANUARY 29, 2024

It seems like the story of “traditional media is dying” has been a meme ever since the beginning of the internet. Every time one would think media outlets can’t cut more staff they find a new bottom: 2023 saw massive layoffs which have continued into 2024. adults get their daily news : social media.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over the summer I had the opportunity to interview Eugina Jordan, currently the CMO of Telecom Infra Project, for our sister brand Design World’s diversity profiles — a collection of profiles highlighting the stories of women and minorities in engineering. You can connect with Emma on LinkedIn here.

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Mark My Words

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But the Prince and Princess of Wales’s message that mental health must move up the nation’s priority list resonated with the pop station’s audience and marked a new evolution in the couple’s engagement with the media. Old enmities are being set aside under the media “reset”.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The Libs Dems are playing a dirty disinformation game with the oldest form of political campaign media. Digital media is the sharp end of fake news, but the Lib Dems are deploying a more traditional form of media as a means of disinformation. It’s here where the Lib Dems are playing dirty.

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PR for Anyone

AUGUST 25, 2022

Most kids went back to school this week and it’s a great time to position yourself as an expert and start pitching the media! Right now back-to-school is a hot topic so the media is looking for those peripheral stories related to back-to-school that they can share with their audience. Watch this week’s PR Tip here.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

I was researching the story, and on a whim, I reached out to Alton Brown’s people and had a lengthy phone interview with him about chefs using induction systems on set for Iron Chef America, which was at the height of its popularity. I’ve interviewed a lot of famous people, but he was a real pleasure to talk to.

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Mark My Words

MARCH 15, 2024

public relations expert, said in an interview. “I think once Catherine is back in the public eye and on royal walkabouts and able to answer questions even informally about how she’s feeling, I think that will dampen a lot of the speculation,” Carolyn Harris, a Toronto-based royal author and historian, said in an interview.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Jennifer Ramsay is the editor-at-large at Endeavor Business Media, where she curates the Market Moves newsletters, a series of cross-industry publications pulled together from various Endeavor Business Media outlets covering electric vehicles, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure and cybersecurity. It was even heated!

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I have been in journalism all my life starting with interviewing soon-to-be President Jimmy Carter for my high school newspaper. I like stories with tension and opposing viewpoints. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? EV battery materials plant in S.C.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

It won an award from the National Newspaper Association for community service. We are both in the media and we were once the weekend TV news and sports anchor team on the island of Guam. I started writing professionally at 17 years old as a sports correspondent for my local newspaper, the Milford (NH) Cabinet.

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Culpwrit

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A few decades ago when the political world was far more civil, I covered government and politics for a small newspaper in southern Indiana. It was a great job since I met and interviewed hundreds of elected officials and political candidates. When it was time to move on, my two strongest references came from the […].

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Is media relations dead? In fact, a recent article in the BusinessWire Blog called Media Outlet Availability on PR Efforts , by Christopher S. Penn, Chief Data Scientist with TrustInsights.ai, cites some revealing statistics about the shrinking number of media outlets and the challenge for PR and media relations.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this interview, she shares her insights into how marketing has changed over time, the most valuable social media channel for marketers and how to make more of an impact as a marketing professional in your community. I craved community, comments, Twitter, Facebook (even if social media hadn’t happened yet… LOL).

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

We are a business-to-business weekly newspaper covering the trucking and logistics industries. My first job was an assistant editor/web for a magazine called Transportation & Logistics from Penton Media in Cleveland. My name is Michael Freeze, features editor at Transport Topics and co-host of the podcast, RoadSigns.

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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”. Finally, the header image was created using DALLE-2.

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The Hoyt Organization

APRIL 23, 2024

That’s why you need a PR strategy that utilizes earned, owned, and paid media to get your message to the public. For a non-profit, goals could range from increasing donations or volunteers to getting more media coverage for a particular cause. It stands for Paid, Earned, Shared, and Owned media.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’ve also been fortunate to interview a lot of celebrities – Carrie Fisher, Tony Hawk, Mick Fleetwood, Billy Gibbons, Nikki Sixx and more – which was always fun. Fun assignment! What story or stories are you most proud of? An early piece on autonomous vehicles I did for Wired that was picked up by CNN and got millions of views.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

I then reported for my college newspaper, The Michigan Daily , at the University of Michigan. Not every interview needs to be a Zoom or Teams video chat – we’re all fatigued by virtual working and I’m more than happy to do a phone call, too. You might also be interested in: Bianchi PR’s Meet the Media Recap.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? They are often the go-to pool resource for other media, because they provide quick and accurate fundamentals, especially when time is of the essence. SF Mayor Frank Jordan inviting two radio reporters on his doorstep in to interview him while he took a shower.

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Prakkypedia

APRIL 23, 2019

In Ricky Gervais’s latest TV series, After Life , he’s a writer at a free community newspaper. After several grumpy episodes interviewing local people about their so-called “stories”, Ricky’s character has an epiphany. With my clients, they’re often keen on gaining media coverage. Others have different PR goals).

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

29, Matt Charles, APR, presents a webinar titled “ How to Tell Your Organization’s Story to Get Media Coverage.” Whether you serve a large corporation, small nonprofit, major research university or municipal government, at some point your boss has probably said, “We need more media attention. Can you make it happen?”

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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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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

We are part of the Endeavor Business Media Commercial Vehicle Group covering trucking and fleet industries. Covering Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was an adventure that included a lot of adrenaline and little sleep in the “early days” of using social media for good. I had my first staff byline at a small Connecticut newspaper in 2001.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 8, 2023

I then worked as an investigative reporter at the Forward, a Jewish newspaper, and went back to school for business journalism and data journalism. I like to read background materials folks send over – it’s helpful to provide some basic information about the company or person I’m interviewing. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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5W PR

OCTOBER 26, 2017

By: Kelsea Bruce, Social Media Director. To get a better understanding of the influencer side of the business, I interviewed two of my favorite influencers, @laurenmagenta and @feedmedearly. I had a cooking show in college and was writing a weekly recipe for the newspaper, so food was always my thing. Perfect timing really!

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Newsfile

JUNE 28, 2023

By Melissa Strle Table Of Contents What is media monitoring? What is the difference between media mentions and media coverage? Why is media monitoring so important? What are the benefits of media monitoring? What Is Media Monitoring? What Is The Difference Between Media Mentions & Media Coverage?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 10, 2023

I’ve been in this business almost 20 years now, and worked for my college, high school and junior high newspapers before that. (I’ve Just existing, or doing a thing, isn’t enough to get news coverage anymore—especially in the current era of digital media audience declines and ever-tightening budgets.

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PR Insiders

MAY 7, 2021

A store advertises its Memorial Day sale with a mammoth two-page newspaper spread and the store’s foot traffic either goes up or it doesn’t. If your interview with USA Today just appeared in print and online, you shouldn’t expect your phone to ring incessantly the next morning with people wanting to employ your services. Social media.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

My first non-school newspaper gig was at the China Daily in 2013. Exercising, often reading newspapers and satire, playing guitar and curating my Spotify playlists. You might also be interested in: Meet the Media: John Irwin, Reporter at Automotive News. Meet the Media: Bengt Halvorson, Editor of Green Car Reports.

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Maxim Behar

MARCH 28, 2024

I transitioned from journalism after being one of the founders of the outstanding daily newspaper "Standart," and I wanted to see if I could succeed in business. Should we be careful about what we post on social media and how it affects our career development? You can find the full interview here. Success is being happy.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

As managing editor of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine and TruckingInfo.com, she writes trucking news and features, manages e-newsletters and social media, coordinates magazine production, and helps to develop content for events and multimedia projects. Once I graduated, I had to make the choice: newspapers or trade pubs. Have a reason.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 11, 2022

Whether it was through classes, writing for the school newspaper , or my personal blogs, my writing involved reporting facts, interviewing subjects, and taking down their quotes. We may have what we think is a great idea for an announcement or a media pitch, but if it doesn’t fit with the brand strategy, it’s not a great idea.

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