Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: Are we over-relying on media relations in PR? I’m talking about the broader scope of PR here–media relations, content marketing, social media marketing, community relations, etc. Content partnerships with major media outlets are taking off.

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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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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s PR pros must not only navigate, research and pitch in an increasingly complex media environment but also track (monitor) and measure the results in a way that resonates with stakeholders. This is especially challenging with the increasingly fragmented media ecosystem, but Burrelles can help !

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

Spoken words and video must match, so reporters either have to write/talk to the video or find a video that matches what they’re saying. Performance isn’t typically an issue in print — using prose to tell a compelling story is. Along with my duties for BCN, I do a little freelance writing. Oh, where to start?

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JULY 17, 2023

Communications, public relations, and marketing messaging can be both proactive and reactive, which may be why they seem so pervasive. Media relations and PR pros must heed Godin’s advice or suffer the consequences of being ignored, or worse, getting blocked by a journalist when trying to pitch them.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 19, 2016

My media relations and outreach efforts had secured an interview with CNBC for a technology client and the reporter had flown in to conduct it in person. Proven to get More Out of Media Relations. That was the outcome good media relations pitching earned. Pitch media upstream.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 28, 2020

2020 NFL Draft: Online News + Print Results. The 2020 NFL Draft brought excitement to teams and fans all across America, but according to our Critical Mention dashboard, the Philadelphia Eagles produced the highest online and print audience, mention and publicity numbers. of the radio media coverage from the NFC East teams.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

These days, we publish our print edition quarterly and focus most of our attention on our website. When I was writing about appliances in Louisville, GE was starting to push induction cooktops. I’m not writing as much as I used to, but I’ve been really proud of the work my staff has been doing since I joined IndustryWeek.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 2, 2022

I am the senior editor at Charged – I write daily blog posts, as well as articles for the print magazines, and do copy editing. I’m also a contributing writer for EVannex – I write a weekly blog post. If I have to spend time correcting typos on every post, I might as well write it myself. Are You A Bad Client?

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 22, 2015

Last week PR Newser wrote an interesting article on the value of media relations. Patrick Coffee had insightful commentary on the Holmes Report’s 2015 World PR Report , where he “respectfully disagreed” with the report’s claim that “media relations skills are not seen as particularly relevant.”. By Seedepth.

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Axia PR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Be a better resource for the media. As newsrooms continue to shrink, they rely more and more on their reporters to write for print and online as well as take their own photos and videos. Story ideas and submissions are relatively easy to provide to a media outlet.

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Journalistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

For many of us, it’s what attracted us to media relations in the first place. It was pure magic the first time I read an article in print that was the result of a story I pitched. In this post, I’ll share what I believe to be the two most effective media relations tactics for 2013 (hint: it’s all about inbound and real-time).

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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

When the worlds of PR and media are discussed, it’s impossible to avoid parallels. Don’t make the mistake, though, of viewing PR and media simply as two lines running parallel with one another. DC Reporters Discuss How Social Media Has Changed the Game on PR Newswire’s media blog Beyond Bylines.

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B2B PR Sense

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, a PR agency can obtain media coverage that shines a positive light on your brand. Handpicked Related Content. While you may want to shave a few dollars off your bottom line, PR encompasses much more than media mentions. When you break it down, public relations is not a few-minutes-a-day job.

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Bad Pitch Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

Thanks to buzzwords like big data, the cloud, social media and more, it’s harder than ever to send a bad pitch. Yes, after 10 years of writing the Bad Pitch blog, I’m afraid we can still suck as an industry. I can tell you we never thought we'd be writing for it 10 years later. Even the media send them our way.

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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. I do love cooking, though, and someday I’ll get around to writing all those fictional stories rolling around in my head. Meet the Media: Alexa St. I used the G.I.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

I’m the editor-in-chief of SAE Media Group’s Truck & Off-Highway Engineering magazine and related digital products (e-newsletters, webinars, special reports, web content, etc.). I also write the occasional story for our Automotive Engineering and ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazines.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 25, 2022

As lead editor for Work Truck , I am responsible for content planning for both print and digital, feature writing, news reporting, manage our brand’s social media efforts, eNewsletters, event planning, and am also the content technical lead, helping with editorial technical and SEO efforts. Bianchi PR’s Meet the Media Recap.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Surveys show earned media is still the most credible; exec appreciation and collaboration with PR improved during the Coronavirus Regular readers know these pages are filled with surveys and statistics. Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten. Try our services.

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Wadds Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The community published two guides to tools in public relations and has been inactive since 2015. It explores how they can be used in generative and reductive productivity-boosting applications, from writing and pattern recognition to summarising large documents. Writing a book about a fast-moving area of technology has challenges.

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Solo PR Pro

JULY 5, 2022

reviewing all the news alerts I have set up for my clients and their industry competitors and fielding urgent emails before devoting the rest of the morning to writing and other client work. I write or pitch media in the mornings, so I am only available beginning at noon daily. if I can help it. Michelle Kane, VoiceMatters, LLC.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2016

As SHIFT and the entire industry continues to evolve there is always the question… Is traditional media relations dead? After an aggressive media relations push, we began to pick up traction in the local market. Client: Print Syndicate. Online, print, broadcast – it all still matters. Annie Perkins.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

FleetOwner , part of Endeavor Business Media’s Commercial Vehicle Group, which serves commercial truck fleet executives and operations managers. As chief editor, I lead all FleetOwner’s content planning efforts for both print and digital. In my role today, the most fun stories I get to write come from test-driving trucks.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

How can you tell if your media relations efforts are having an impact? The company works with adtech networks to do for media coverage what adtech is doing for advertising. That’s what Cision is doing with earned media , except the first “target” is the article and the “retarget” is the paid campaign.

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Cision

JULY 19, 2017

How do you, the PR professional, tell your story and place your product in this holy grail of media coverage? Do they prefer online media or print? Are they reading mostly blogs, or do they get their info via social media? Write a standout pitch. Then ask if the media contact would like a sample.

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Cision

MAY 3, 2016

In this interview, Karen shares how thinking like a journalist will help your media relations strategy, why following up on pitches is so important and what to do before jumping into a career in public relations. What are some key components of a successful media relations strategy? The two are companions.

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Melissa Strle Dive into the dynamic world of Public Relations with this essential PR glossary. Tailored for you, the PR pro, it breaks down key terms and strategies, from crafting effective press releases to mastering social media monitoring. It serves as a communication tool to reach journalists, media outlets, and the public.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 21, 2016

Top PR agencies know the value of a well-crafted PR pitch to get the attention of an overworked and cynical media contact. The media aren’t interested in an approach that screams the company name and all its selling points. .” Think the way the media think. Print magazine? The overly commercial pitch.

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Cision

JUNE 29, 2015

Jeremy is also a nationally syndicated journalist and writes for Huffington Post. As a result, the smartphone is becoming an increasingly more important platform for the distribution of news and media. This suggests that news may not always be a primary destination but will often be found through links from social media or email.”.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Social media platforms, for example, can provide tremendous insight into the attitudes of target audiences. Soliciting customer review videos on social media enables decision-makers to assess the customer’s experience and define creative, targeted solutions for improving the product. Contact us to discuss your specific needs.

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Solo PR Pro

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

He developed a love of sports and print media at a young age, and set off to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in journalism. I saw that the media could be a lot more exciting than typing on a laptop,” he says. Crossing over from broadcast media to PR. My niche is still media relations.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2017

B2B reporters today don’t do media interviews like they once did. Below are ten proven tips for successful media interviews. Anything less tends to come off as bullying or desperation, especially in the long run, and public relations is very long run. How to Generate Media Referenceable B2B Customers with a Blog.

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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. I’d arm them with a social strategy (and simple PR strategy if I wasn’t scoped to do it myself) and ways we could repurpose (with title cards, use as a media hook, etc.)

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Reputation Us

APRIL 18, 2017

Many blogs focus on media relations through the lens of news releases. I’m not here to say stop writing news releases. I am here to say write fewer, better ones and spend more time leveraging your best kept secrets – your thought leaders. Media opportunities come and go fast. Are they articulate? Create content.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Most freelancers list their outlets on their websites; those who don’t usually make them available in front-of-book bios or on social media. Freelancers pride themselves on following good stories, but all of us have certain stuff about which we like to write. With this in mind, I’m likely not going to write a puff piece about Kayak.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

Do put important requests/promises and desired outcomes in writing. The best way to prevent misunderstandings is to memorialize any discussions in writing, which is standard operating procedure at most agencies. Today’s PR agencies do much more than media relations. This, of course, applies to both parties.

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