Bianchi Biz Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As with anyone writing about the transportation industry, the transition to zero emission vehicles, and what it takes to service them, is top of mind. 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? My pathway was very typical. I used the G.I.

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HMA Public Relations

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Tell us how you got your start in writing? I’ve always loved writing. Growing up, I was usually working on one fantasy novels or another, and when I applied for college, I looked for a major where writing would still be a big part of my life. Tell us about the outlet and types of story pitches you want? Favorite color?

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Landis PR

MARCH 27, 2023

Covering baseball, it’s all about the new rules right now, especially adding the pitch clock to a sport that is famous for having no clock. I also regularly get proposals from doctors to write about sports injuries, using them as experts on whatever the specific injury might be. Tell us about your dream assignment.

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Prakkypedia

MARCH 31, 2019

Or in other words: “What can I pitch to the media?”. Don’t overlook the people that work in your organisation: they could be the key to your next magazine piece, newspaper profile or 30-minute radio conversation. When PR consultants sit around a meeting table with their clients, often one of the first questions asked is: “What’s new?”.

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Much like journalism, you must let the viewer/reader know straight away how this affects them and what types of solutions you can share. The use of “hyper-focused” pitches will be helpful as well – finding the appropriate media connections and pitch one or two producer/editors at the most you with which you connect.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Consider the following: Demand for media attention is high: Most top-tier writers now receive 100, 250 or 500 pitches a week for 5 story spots. Treat subject lines like you’re a copywriter at a big ad agency and you have to write a killer headline for a new ad. My pro tip: Write 10 subject lines for each pitch.

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PR Fuel

JULY 24, 2018

Determine the chronology of your business story before writing it. The language, idioms, and examples you use in your business story will likely vary depending on whether you’re writing for million dollar home buyers or Kindergarten teachers. Simple Advice: Write Like You Speak, Reporters Will Listen. Just write like you speak.

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Prakkypedia

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Several times a week, I receive emailed media releases or media pitches from a wide variety of firms with a wide variety of topics and “stories to sell”. It’s useful and instructive because I gain insights into how some PR practitioners pitch to media, how they structure their email pitches, how they write their media releases and more.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started in commercial radio in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2006 at the mighty KEZO, which meant I played a lot of fantastic rock records between the hourly weather and traffic reports! I began writing for 605 Magazine in early 2010 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

As part of an effort to get smaller blogs to write about the film, I contacted blog owner, Jamie Bullock, of Project:Women and told her about the film. I suggested she post a story that we would write, to not only help the film – but to help her add valuable content to her blog about women going after their dreams. .

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

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. Along with my duties for BCN, I do a little freelance writing. Oh, where to start?

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Buzzstream

APRIL 25, 2024

Unlinked mentions can bring direct traffic to your site, but they’re more like billboards or radio ads. Search Engine Journal has a great breakdown of this topic.) Craft Your Email and Pitch The email pitch for unlinked mentions is one of the more straightforward emails you can send. But are nofollow links worthless?

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PRSay

JUNE 5, 2018

An accomplished voice-over and radio artist, Giles has served as the voice of The Food Network for over 10 years, and has many other diverse work credits. “I But with my approach to my own work — be it stand-up comedy or solo shows or improv or writing — I try to get people laughing first. I think that’s an important thing.

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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 14.6 100, 500, maybe 1,000? percent close rate.

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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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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 2, 2018

My degree is in mass comm and I went to school for a career in radio. A3 I studied journalism in grad school. Universities should teach Writing, Pitching, Attention to Detail, Measurement (of course), and… How to deal with Rejection. measurePR #PRStudChat #measurepr. A3: Hard to say. What did for sure?

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Couple that with an endless to-do list of research, writing, media training and more, and it seems nearly impossible to keep up, let alone make sense of it all. Pitching PR In this podcast, host Lesley Luce “cuts through the jargon and puts a new spin on the PR industry.” New episodes are available every Wednesday. Business 24.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Wilson award for business journalism. I’m not boasting here, but nobody was more surprised than me to win that award, as I had not formal training in writing. 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.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

Meanwhile, I was also learning the news I was writing. But I was such a big fan of journalism, so I became a correspondent, travelled all over the world and met a lot of people. One day, I remembered the words of Winston Churchill “You can achieve a lot of things with journalism, but you must know when to quit”.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 3, 2020

Burrelles integrated the TVEyes capabilities for capturing TV, radio and podcast mentions into its platform. As the company’s FAQs note, “Once the inquiry is approved, you will receive an email with the send date along with a final preview of your pitch.”. 6) Quick hits in PR technology.

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Solo PR Pro

MAY 10, 2022

Journalism has changed a lot over the last few years, but you don't have to feel left behind. As long as it's coming from a genuine place, you can land some solid pitches. The state of journalism in 2022. With journalism resources stretching thinner and thinner, your pitches need to be laser-focused.

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Flatiron Communications

APRIL 13, 2021

He writes: “Substack has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions. ” 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.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

While some still struggle with multimedia, there are people who would rather just write or take photos, there’s no question that journalism will become an even more visual industry in the future, especially when print eventually disappears, he says. I can write three articles in the amount of time I can shoot a video.”.

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

And radio too has morphed into time-shifting mode with the growing popularity of (once left-for-dead) podcasting. My answer: my (regularly curated) stream of those I follow on Twitter, followed by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and my Facebook newsfeed. ” The Flack Appointment TV Buzzfeed Influence JOurnalism Niche.co

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

And radio too has morphed into time-shifting mode with the growing popularity of (once left-for-dead) podcasting. My answer: my (regularly curated) stream of those I follow on Twitter, followed by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and my Facebook newsfeed. ” The Flack Appointment TV Buzzfeed Influence JOurnalism Niche.co

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In this article I explore how smart public relations practitioners are putting search at the heart of their campaigns and seeking followed links from the media sites they pitch. Public relations practitioners have more places to pitch stories but they’re likely to be working with journalists that are overstretched.

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