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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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 6, 2024

I regularly write articles on market reports, industry regulations, information management technology, and operations. I joined my university’s newspaper as a reporter in 2018. A year later, I became co-editor-in-chief of the paper, where I hired, trained, and managed a 12-person staff for a biweekly print publication.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Have reporters stopped asking to see the full release when you contact them about news – a partnership, company milestone, new product or a big hire? GlobeNewswire – Offers real-time monitoring of online news, print, and social media and a 360-degree view of your performance. The comprehensive reports can be helpful.

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Landis PR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Publishing company Pressbooks defines media relations as “the mutually beneficial relationship between journalists and public relations professionals.” . Several years ago, I attended a conference that was geared to both reporters and public relations professionals. Personalize pitches to each reporter/editor. .

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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? Recent headlines provide brutal evidence: Condé Nast announced last December it was shutting down the print version of Self magazine to go online-only. Long Live Print”!

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Cision moves to eliminate the HARO brand Cision is pressing forward with the elimination of the Help a Reporter Out (HARO) brand. Reporters were getting more emails than ever – and traced many of them back to Vocus. When I arrived, all the angry reporter calls that used to our support line were re-routed to me. Click To Tweet 2.

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PRSay

MAY 24, 2021

Over the next decade, Todd predicted, his profession will slowly move beyond the public scorn and skepticism toward the news media that has grown amid the country’s current political divide. For PR professionals, being able to work with trustworthy, engaged and ethical journalists to tell our clients’ stories is crucial.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 13, 2019

There’s not much good news for UK media in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. Media coverage of Brexit is impacting the mood of the nation according to Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. You can download a copy of the report by following this link. The UK is suffering from news fatigue.

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Axia PR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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. Many companies struggle with submitting photos that newspapers and magazines will and can use. Story ideas and submissions are relatively easy to provide to a media outlet.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? Live reporting is unscripted — it doesn’t go through a copy editor. 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. Oh, where to start?

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

PR professionals pride themselves on relationships with reporters and specialized knowledge about the publications that cover their clients’ sectors. Knowing more about the nature of these publications can help you navigate the risks and rewards of the current media landscape. Understanding earned but unwanted media.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While in 2016 only 12 percent of news-watchers favored online content, now 20 percent report this preference. The survey also revealed that: Fewer Americans are relying on newspapers. Dean Essner is the editorial assistant for PRSA’s publications. Young adults prefer online platforms. A former resident of Washington, D.C.,

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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. 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. Finish this sentence: If I am not reporting, I am ….

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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. The ROI of publicity isn’t as instant or as cut-and-dried as advertising. When we talk about the media, we think of newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio. Case closed. Social media.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

If you ask 10 different public relations (PR) professionals what they do for a living, you’d get 10 different answers. More respondents (38%) say the comms function reports to the CEO, versus 35% that say they report to the CMO. It can develop into a separate function, often reporting to the CEO, as the business grows.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 20, 2017

In public relations, it’s often said that you’re only as good as your media contacts. For clients for whom key trade or vertical publications are important, those connections are doubly important. Can you cite a few traits of the ideal public relations person? For example, AHF reports on affordable rental housing.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The publication says this will complement “Talkwalker’s social and customer data.”. It’s also offering “virtual event expertise to support public companies in delivering compelling virtual investor events focused on ESG.”. Print circulation drops again. Access Intelligence Plc. Business Wire and Q4 offer integration.

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

As communicators, we work hard to engage with reporters and editors to make them aware of the great work our clients are doing — but we still understand why bosses make these urgent requests. Reporters choose to cover the story because it’s important, thus enhancing the organization’s reputation. Make them care.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

I assign articles to our in-house and freelance staff, work with our graphic artist for our print layout and designs, and work with our sales and management team to ensure our content meets our editorial mission and help with sales. As EIC on FPW, I guide the content and direction of websites, webinars/events, and magazine.

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Presspage

JANUARY 23, 2018

In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to become a full-time journalist blogger. He writes the blog Silicon Valley Watcher — reporting on the collision of media and technology. Press release!

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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.). A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 25, 2015

When I started out in PR, my focus was building relationships with the media who were mostly print journalists at newspapers and trade publications. Yes, there is still print and broadcast media. Public Relations Building Media Relationships Marketwired Personal Relations Pitching for Smarties Pitching Success PR'

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Beyond PR

JUNE 30, 2016

The college newspaper. These are not trade journalists looking to cover the higher education industry; they have their place at other publications. Campus Newspapers: The Digital Revolution Is (Also) Here. Let’s consider the campus newspaper in more depth. The university radio or TV station. It has gone digital.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

Rich Oppel, senior advisor for media strategy and management at Crosswind Media & Public Relations, says brands will successfully land media coverage when they can combine their needs with the needs of journalists and their readers. A reporter is in pursuit of a given story; we coach a client to help tell that story.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Moving beyond the traditional who, what, where, when, how and why, we focus on this question when we’re working to really engage a key reporter to generate that special story for a client. Pro Tip : When putting together a story to pitch, consider what human element you can offer to the reporter. Timeliness.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As chief editor, I lead all FleetOwner’s content planning efforts for both print and digital. Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer.

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Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2015

At my first agency job in New York, I worked alongside a media relations specialist who wanted each of his annual coverage reports to be as thick as a phone book. Now that’s a coverage report,” he would say. I emailed the reporter.”. Most reporters prefer e-mail. Will it run in print?”. million circulation.”.

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PRSay

MAY 8, 2018

Karlie is senior director of public relations for FOCUS Brands. Karlie: My degree is in public relations from the University of Florida (UF). In one class, we were asked to write a release based on a police report. For me, health care public relations was about putting the hospital or client in a positive light.

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Melissa Strle Dive into the dynamic world of Public Relations with this essential PR glossary. It serves as a communication tool to reach journalists, media outlets, and the public. Media monitoring tools scan various sources (print, online, social media, TV, radio) for mentions of specific keywords or brands.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Their study was published in the Journal of Promotion Management and summarized in a piece for the Institute for Public Relations ( IPR ). An annual survey by PRWeek found the median public relations salary in the U.S. More: 2020 Public Relations Salary Survey: How Much Money do PRs Pros Make ?

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 16, 2019

Reuters Digital News Report, Metia content resonance event, industry awards, #AIinPR, digital exclusion and a book recommendation. Two data points from the past week should concern you if you work in marketing, media or public relations. Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. First, the ease with which disinformation can be created and spread via social media has huge implications for public engagement and discourse in society. Representing the public that we serve 4.

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

If you hadn’t heard, the former “Gray Lady,” a name derived from the color (or lack thereof) of its newsprint, just distributed one million Google Cardboard VR viewers to subscribers of its Sunday print edition. It coincided with the publication of a VR-enabled, multi-media story titled “The Displaced.”

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Presspage

JULY 25, 2018

You’d love to get that major publication or TV network to cover your event, embed your video or quote your chief executive in an economic forecast story. The last thing you want is for reporters to delete your press release the moment the email notification pops up on their screens. How to stand out? Here are a few tips: 1.

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Critical Mention

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The rise in online news readers has given online newspaper, magazine and publishing companies more opportunities to monetize digital readership. One way they’ve done so is by limiting their content to the public through the use of media paywalls. Fortunately, there’s a solution. Share Tweet Share. Until next time! Critical Mention.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2022

After 11 years at a publication focused on the design of heavy-duty equipment, I have recently moved to the publication Power & Motion. Since technology is the main focus for my publication, obviously any new technology is going to be of interest. Finish this sentence: If I am not reporting, I am ….

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PR Fuel

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A press release refers to written communication that reports news related to an organization. Press releases are released to the media to be made public. Even when you’re only using print adverts, it does cost a hefty amount to pay for space slots in newspapers and magazines. What Is a Business Press Release?

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