Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

I’m a senior reporter at The Verge , and I cover the emerging technologies and business side of transportation companies big and small, with a special focus on electric vehicles. I got a journalism degree in college but I graduated in 2008 — not the greatest time to try to find a writing job in the media industry in New York City.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The Endeavor Commercial Vehicle Group is comprised of six CV brands: FleetOwner, Fleet Maintenance, Trailer/Body Builders, Bulk Transporter, Refrigerated Transporter, and American Trucker. Additionally, I still write, and will take on event coverage or feature assignments. Finish this sentence: If I am not reporting, I am ….

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

In my role, I help populate our websites with original content as well as pertinent press releases, and write feature stories for print and the web. I am an associate editor and I primarily work with Fleet Maintenance Magazine and Trailer-Body Builders Magazine , and I also occasionally contribute to FleetOwner magazine.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Our team covers transportation and mobility, including electric vehicles, driver-assist technology and connectivity. I have been writing about vehicle infotainment centers and connectivity. 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.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2014

For the next in the series, Carmen graciously offered to ask a tech journalist friend the following questions (the reporter requested that we protect her identity; I can say she is the real deal – writes for a Chinese tech publication that has a circulation of well over 1M, and she has a similar number of Weibo followers).

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

I write a weekly newsletter for about 11,000 email subscribers and FreightWaves.com called Truck Tech. Finish this sentence: If I am not reporting, I am… preparing for hosting my weekly TV show or writing my weekly Truck Tech newsletter. I do not typically write about cars or passenger vehicle trends.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I also write about mobility and transportation topics, including pedestrian safety. I’m watching the ongoing impact of the pandemic on the auto industry and other types of transportation. If a story topic interests me, I expect I will report and write a better story.

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PRSay

AUGUST 23, 2021

West Virginia was an early national leader in delivering COVID-19 vaccines, with 79 percent of the state’s residents over the age of 65 now fully vaccinated and 60 percent of its eligible population having received at least one dose, as of this writing. Establishing trust through relationships.

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Mindful Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Department of Transportation agency that “provides stewardship over the construction, maintenance and preservation of the nation's highways, bridges and tunnels” while also helping state and local governments enhance mobility, safety, and innovation. Use caution.”

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 10, 2023

I was a Metro Desk reporter at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas for several years before I made the jump to automotive writing. I get a lot of “Write about this startup!” Probably just the above, or shotgun-email PR pitches that have nothing to do with me or the outlets I write for. (Do Do those even work?

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Cision

JULY 13, 2016

In this interview, Nick discusses how to approach integrated communication, why print may still have a place in your strategy and how to build relationships with reporters. With a condensed downtown and huge public transportation infrastructure, bus wraps and boards became roving billboards with an incredible number of eyes on them each day.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In my role today, the most fun stories I get to write come from test-driving trucks. Personally, I am most proud of our Women in Transportation series at FleetOwner. Women in Transportation 2022: Trailblazers in trucking. Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. What story or stories are you most proud of?

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Maxim Behar

JUNE 27, 2023

All three of those things are put into this book and I hope that readers will be transported if only for a little while to Seychelles. What I would write to him in the letter is I hope he remembers his two visits to wonderful Bulgaria. He said all the time then in all the interviews, “Come to Bulgaria, it’s wonderful.”.

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The Hoffman Agency

AUGUST 23, 2022

I would spend hours writing fictional narratives in my room, transporting to the imaginary worlds I was creating. I continued writing stories, but castles and princesses quickly became congressmen and protests.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Vesna Brajkovic has been covering the transportation industry since 2016, including trucking, railroading, the automotive aftermarket and aviation.

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Cision

APRIL 26, 2016

In this interview, Ashley discusses how to best leverage data and analytics, establish specific objectives for your communication strategy and be creative and take risks with your public relations efforts. The tools and technology will come after. Be eager, humble, hardworking and accepting of constructive criticism. Rapid Fire Round.

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Maxim Behar

JULY 25, 2023

And you can invest nothing, because nobody gave Mr. Gospodinov money to write a “Time Shelter” and so there must be an incredibly good balance between government policy towards art, culture and at the same time the bazar, which determines whether an artist is good or not. You can see the whole interview here.

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Solo PR Pro

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I see the new business process as an opportunity for me to interview a prospect, just as much as it’s an opportunity for them to get to know Geben. I’ve found that clients truly appreciate when you give them access to your network.For example, our city’s public transportation organization is one of our social media clients.

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The Hoffman Agency

MARCH 11, 2020

Chinese media are also more accustomed to group interviews. Speaking of budget, we cannot overlook the media allowance or “transportation fee” — a distinctive feature of Chinese media relations. Unlike in the U.S. where phone briefings are predominant, face-to-face meetings are crucial in China. How do you interact with them in person?

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Maxim Behar

JULY 5, 2023

Host: I listened to an interview of yours in which you say that Seychellois cuisine is very different. And I tell her, nothing is happening, we just talk a lot about Seychelles and explain that it is an affordable destination with very delicious food. How does it differ from Bulgarian, and did you find any similarities?

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OnePitch

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the consumer travel reporter, Zach covers travel, primarily writing about and focusing on airlines and aviation. Set up time for an interview, that kind of thing.”. “So I write about air travel for consumers. So after sending me a pitch that isn’t about that, like I’m almost certainly not going to write it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

During this time, my grandfather flew transport aircraft. Sure enough, on the afore-announced night – which was moonlit – Pakistan sent in its jets, and as my grandfather was on the tarmac (a transport squadron was landing), he narrowly missed being hit by one. Image: taruntej via Flickr , CC 2.0 Wanna Subscribe?

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Maxim Behar

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

They think that anything goes, that they can write and say whatever they want, tell bits of stories, even make them up, and in doing so have a frantic fight for more likes and shares. There you can write longer, share, and argue easier, illustrate with photos. We all need to learn how and what we speak, write, look like.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In his interview with PRWeek Danny Rogers asked Martin if the danger was that the growth of social media meant that it would be adopted and subsumed by advertising agencies. How often does the Financial Times write stories about itself? If you are sceptical it’s not just me saying this. But to publish quality content.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 5, 2024

To create the index (as some call it), I weighted a handful of criteria, such as homeowners insurance and transportation costs, and then assigned scores for over 800 cities. ResumeBuilder’s AI Interview Study Strategy: Using survey data from a full-service paid platform to create a pitchable post.

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Flatiron Communications

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Yet, here I am writing about it, as an unwitting marketing pawn in a carefully choreographed chess game designed to add more media fuel to the fame flame that has kept her family in the news and UGC spotlight for years. And we’ll continue to photograph, write and tweet about them…for better or worse.

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