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The 10 most-read marketing, PR and comms stories on Sword and the Script in 2024

Sword and the Script

A long-time (but since retired) member of the reserves and Guard, I came home from a long deployment to Iraq in 2008 and realized Web 2.0 Goodbye, Burrelles Burrelles bids farewell to print media monitoring and shutters a 140-year-old business perhaps the oldest vendor in the history of the PR profession. was changing my profession.

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Behind the Headlines With Rich Oppel

Cision

How do you think your background in journalism will help you in this new role? How did you make the switch from journalism to PR? I ended 45 years in journalism when I retired as editor of the Austin American-Statesman in 2008, so it didn’t feel like a “switch” so much as completing one phase of my life. They all get it.

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Met the Media: Ryan Gehm, Editor-in-chief at Truck & Off-Highway Engineering

Bianchi Biz Blog

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? And before that, I was an English and Journalism student at Bowling Green State University. And if you’re pitching based off our editorial calendar, know that we’re working two to three months in advance on feature stories for the print magazine.

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PRoust Questionnaire: José Manuel Velasco

PR Conversations

Probably because of my background in journalism (see the next answer), the thing I continue to enjoy the most is writing (for effective communications). For that matter, I don’t know why I felt at a young age the “call” of journalism, as there was no family tradition in this type of career. Why do you work in PR?

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Meet the Media: Cristina Commendatore, Editor in Chief of FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

As chief editor, I lead all FleetOwner’s content planning efforts for both print and digital. Our Commercial Vehicle Group also won editorial excellence awards for investigative journalism, a technology article on hydrogen trucks, and editorial use of data. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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What Digital PRs Can Learn From Former Journalist, Robbie Mann

Buzzstream

You start off with that type of journalism, but that’s how it starts off, right? This was 2008. So Facebook was really good to find stories to his journals and she basically opened up about how her dad’s biological father sexually abused her. And I got that into the Brighton Argus in print. As a reporter.

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Maxim Behar: Whatever you do, do it to be happy

Maxim Behar

This is not an evolution from newspapers, as in Gutenberg's time, the first printing presses, radio, and television. For example, many newspapers, if not all, have their websites because it has become clear that you can't sell printed media without having an online one. This is truly a revolution.