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

JULY 10, 2023

No offense to those in that arena, but I think we have an overabundance of journalism aimed at investors or B2B audiences; I don’t think we have enough for the people who aren’t ready for all the changes coming their way soon, like EV charging or subscription features. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Working in China and northern Iraq early in my career opened my eyes to the possibilities of journalism. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? My first non-school newspaper gig was at the China Daily in 2013. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started my journalism career in South Texas as a newspaper reporter in 1997 and followed that with newspaper jobs in Mississippi, Kentucky and Ohio. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started writing for my college newspaper and freelancing in 1984 and got my first full-time editorial job in 1988 right out of college, as editor for Installation News (now Mobile Electronics ) at Bobit Publishing. Blind pitches on a subject I don’t cover.

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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 ). Is this a sign of the future of PR (and journalism)? Is it interesting to get pitches?

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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. Once I graduated, I had to make the choice: newspapers or trade pubs. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? 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.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2022

My first article on the project also holds a special place in my memory as it was the first big article I wrote after I started in B2B journalism in which I had come up with the idea and it wound up being the cover story for a print issue. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? PowerMotionTech.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Starting with the lede, and crafting a story out of it isn’t usually journalism, but stopping to consider it while you’re still at the research stage is smart journalism. 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?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started writing in eighth grade for my middle school newspaper in 1999 and was hooked from there. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Don’t pitch story ideas, pitch sources. The biggest thing for me is timeliness.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Earned media still the most credible source of info Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Their study was published in the Journal of Promotion Management and summarized in a piece for the Institute for Public Relations ( IPR ). Try our services.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I had my first staff byline at a small Connecticut newspaper in 2001. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? You can follow Josh and FleetOwner on Twitter at: @TrucksAtWork @fleetowner. Timing is always important.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I caught the journalism bug during my first internship at the Westword, an alternative news weekly in Denver, when I was about 20 years old and I never looked back. Since then, I have worked in weekly and then daily newspapers, online media outlets and magazines.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? 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?

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Cision

MAY 3, 2016

Journalists can see right through your mass emails – and they’ll ignore you if they suspect you aren’t tailoring your pitches. Karen Paff, senior vice president at Ogilvy Public Relations, recommends doing your research and learning as much as you can about the journalists you target before you pitch them your story. Rapid Fire Round.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

And several of our success stories now compete against us at world-class news organizations such as The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, among others. I have written or edited tens of thousands of stories over my 34 years of professional journalism, so it’s hard to narrow down this list. I have been in journalism my entire life.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These are three traditional job titles in the journalism world which have been around for over a century. They’re the main players that make up the journalist line-up that you’ll find in every national newspaper in the UK today. So, do you pitch to an editor in the hope they pass the story to a freelancer? Columnists.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I’ve been in professional journalism covering the auto industry since 2015, working for Automotive News and Automotive News Canada in various roles. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? You can follow join on Twitter at JohnDIrwin.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

OCTOBER 16, 2014

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. Even something as simple as saying, “Good Morning” on Twitter will set off a response of good afternoon, good evening and goodnight from your network.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I want to be in the Wall Street Journal. In fact, time spent with newspapers is now down to 11 minutes a day (while time with digital sits at 6 hours and 35 minutes). Cheddar conducts its live broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and has a live streaming partnership with Twitter.”

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

I was the gaming reporter for the last 11 years covering the casino industry for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and dealing day-to-day with corporate communications folks from the various gaming companies. More people get their news from Twitter and other similar resources than ever before. Also, know what has and hasn’t been published.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? The differences are less significant than what, at least in a good newsroom, they all share: a commitment to enduring journalism values that include accuracy, timeliness, balance, relevance, importance, emotional impact, counter-intuition, enterprise.

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Cision

JUNE 21, 2016

Going into college I just knew that I would be a reporter at a newspaper. After that summer, I changed my concentration in the journalism school and never looked back! It may just be the Texan in me, but Whataburger is one of my favorite Twitter accounts to follow. What drew you to the field of PR? Is there a downside?

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 9, 2017

When I first started in PR, the desire was an article in a major national newspaper, above the fold and on the right side. Or that the people reading the New York Times might not be their buying audience (using FollowerWonk we can easily see whether social shares align with the right titles in Twitter bios).

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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? Mike recognizes that newspapers that pulled away from their daily print publishing were hurt by it. “The We are always pitchable by PR people. And do you read books?

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MaccaPR

APRIL 18, 2017

Now that I’ve morphed from journalist to public relations guy, I’m aware of how vital it is to target precisely the right reporter – so you avoid becoming the PR pro who pitches the launch of a new Caramel Coconut Cherry ice cream flavor to a reporter who is dedicated to covering Islamic fundamentalism in Qatar. For your reference, here’s a.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? It was for the local newspaper (I miss those) and about a kid getting his Eagle Badge. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Make sure that you double-check the name on your pitch. Pay rate per word. :). and Hawaii home.

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PRSay

JUNE 18, 2019

Writing in AP style means they’re speaking the language of the people they are pitching. Since AP style’s roots are in guiding AP journalists, our rules are written with the idea of helping explain ideas to the kind of broad audience that might read a daily newspaper or online news site. If you spot an error, please let us know!

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

What was behind your decision to switch from journalism to PR? Instead, they pitched me on a position they had open. How will your background in journalism help you in this new position? My daily newspaper of choice is…newspaper? Want to improve your media relations? ” I hope I haven’t switched!

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

I’m the Chief Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal (CCJ). I was the news editor of a small daily newspaper in Alabama. My wife worked for the same newspaper at the time, and she stopped by their house to pick up some photos that we ran with the story, and she was warmly greeted. Metro weekly newspaper that no longer exists.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Apart from the usual layoffs, cost reduction, and restructuring, we have seen newspapers and magazines getting thinner, TV stations cutting back on programming, and several publications and channels are on the block. It is rightly said that PR and journalism are interdependent. The Monday and Saturday papers will remain unaffected.

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MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

Paul Business Journal and, increasingly of late, Minnesota Business magazine. Paul Business Journal, and news director for SPNN-TV Neighborhood News. I illustrate this for people with my hands: If you only get your news from newspapers and TV, hold your hands six inches apart – that’s all the news you’re getting.

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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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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

Although the trio’s conversation focused on the state of journalism in the District, the obstacles and opportunities they discussed not only apply to most news markets, they also impact their PR counterparts. Regularly assess whether they and the publication are still covering the topics you’re pitching them on.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? According to Search Engine Journal, SEO leads have a 14.6 Connect with him on Twitter: @sethgilpn. . .

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