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S&T Live Recap: Local News Deserts Leave Residents Uninformed, Encourage Misinformation

PRSay

This year alone, 127 newspapers closed in the United States, an average of nearly two per week, according to Northwestern University’s Medill State of Local News Report 2024. Despite the demand for local news, news deserts “are counties with no newspaper, no digital-only news site, no ethic media, and no public radio,” Franklin said.

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Meet the Media: Josh Fisher, Executive Editor or FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

After spending much of 2021 focused on the will-they-or-won’t-they issues of Biden’s infrastructure plan, we’re watching how that will be implemented across the U.S. — While working in local news in the Northeast, I covered a few big hurricanes and major blizzards that ravaged the area.

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

Bianchi Biz Blog

Heavy Duty Trucking’s October 2021 “ Driver Retention: Get Shippers on your Side ,” was my first cover story for HDT and I thought it was very successful in addressing major issues experienced by drivers, fleet managers and shippers. In 2021, at the Women in Trucking annual conference as managing editor of HDT.

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Why PR Needs to Get Over its Strong Aversion to Sponsored Content

Sword and the Script

One former employer bought a full-page ad in a major local newspaper, and after that, every pitch I sent in seemed to merit an interview and an article. On the 2021 JOTW Strategic Communications Survey , my colleague Ned Lundquist and I asked 300 communicators about their views of sponsored content.

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

Bianchi Biz Blog

Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. Neal Award for our December 2021 issue of Trucking by the Numbers. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer. I am in constant awe of the stories these folks produce.

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Maxim Behar for BG ONAIR: What Bulgarians were Searching for on Google in 2021

Maxim Behar

PR expert Maxim Behar and psychologist Mladen Vladimirov commented on the most googled names by Bulgarians for 2021, the discussion took place in the studio of "Bulgaria this morning", and focused on the likes of Kiril Petkov, Juliana Gani and the Covid vaccine. Results "Elections 2021", "Measures", etc. It is not local.

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#16: How the consumer driven news cycle changes PR measurement

NewsWhip

APRIL 22, 2021 4pm Singapore / 12pm UAE / 9am Ireland. Data and innovation leads for Hill+Knowlton Strategies in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia joined NewsWhip’s CEO Paul Quigley for a special panel session on the Pulse to talk about navigating multiple market nuances to be locally relevant at scale. Watch webinar.