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Meet the Media: Josh Fisher, Executive Editor or FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

While working in local news in the Northeast, I covered a few big hurricanes and major blizzards that ravaged the area. Covering Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was an adventure that included a lot of adrenaline and little sleep in the “early days” of using social media for good. I started off covering education and other local issues.

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Meet the Media: Vesna Brajkovic, Managing Editor of Heavy Duty Trucking & TruckingInfo.com

Bianchi Biz Blog

I’ve written a story at least once a week since 2012 when I walked into the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s independent, student-run newsroom unannounced asking for an assignment. By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper.

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Changes in journalism impacting PR

Prakkypedia

The report stated: “The committee was particularly struck by the number of journalist jobs that have been lost in the last few years, which some evidence suggested was approximately 3000–3200 positions between 2012 and late-2017.

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

Bianchi Biz Blog

I covered Hurricane Sandy in Connecticut in 2012. 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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Ethical Issues with Coalitions and Front Groups – Greg Bailey

Ethical Voices

I spent the first third of my career working for newspapers. I was the managing editor of the local business journal here in Nashville before joining a local PR firm. In the newspaper business, I did have one, and I really thought I’d lose my job over it. Started right out of college as an old fashioned copy clerk.

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Taking the collective temperature of Italian females in PR

PR Conversations

Ours is dynamic and proactive profession, and we benefit from our ubiquity in: contributing to the general workplace and local and national discussions. In Italy, we note a growing trend regarding male journalists who lost their newspaper jobs; many are recycling (or reinventing) themselves into new positions in public relations.

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Digital PR Secrets From a Former Journalist (Now Agency Owner) Amanda Walls

Buzzstream

And at the same time, I also worked for a local government publication. In Melbourne, where I was responsible for kind of sourcing stories for the publication, particularly around what was impacting local councils. So I moved back to the UK in 2012 and I, basically made the transition then from journalism into PR.