Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

I’m the web editor for Automotive News , supervising all breaking news content on autonews.com. I work closely with our publisher, Jason Stein, about a strategic vision for the kind of journalists and newsroom culture we want for Automotive News. I have supervised the Automotive News collegiate internship program since 2007.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

For over a decade, I was the editor-in-chief of AutoblogGreen and today I freelance for a good roster of publications, including Car and Driver, Forbes, Automotive News, SAE Automotive Engineering and others. That’s a broad request, but it ended up being a lot of fun to track down and write.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Please provide your job title and media outlet(s), as well as a brief description of your duties: Automotive Reporter, Detroit Free Press. I also write about mobility and transportation topics, including pedestrian safety. If a story topic interests me, I expect I will report and write a better story.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I’m a reporter with Automotive News covering suppliers and electric vehicles. It’s on everyone’s radar now, but I’m extremely interested in the shift to EVs and the way traditional automotive companies and start-ups are adapting to it. I’m excited to have a front-row seat covering that shift for Automotive News.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

Nothing irks reporters more than committing to write a story and not having the insight, information or images they need. Magazines and newspapers operate on strict production schedules, and web outlets need to move fast to stay competitive. Not respecting journalists’ deadlines.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 10, 2023

I also consult on audience and editorial strategies for a few startup publications in the tech and automotive spaces. (If I’m interested in the zero-emission, digital transformation of the automotive industry and the future of how we get around. I get a lot of “Write about this startup!” Do those even work?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I want to write stories that thoroughly explain what’s going on and how it impacts them.”. Pro Tip : Be like Anna Zeck of 10 Missions Media (which produces FenderBender , Rachet+Wrench and other automotive journals) and ask yourself, “What can the reader learn from this? What is the takeaway?” I also look for timeliness.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

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. I didn’t write any of them, and in most cases, my edits were minimal.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Vesna Brajkovic has been covering the transportation industry since 2016, including trucking, railroading, the automotive aftermarket and aviation. By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper. Once I graduated, I had to make the choice: newspapers or trade pubs.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

You really have to try to not have fun when writing about the automotive industry. I started by writing for the Arts & Life section of my college newspaper at The University of Akron roughly 12 years ago. Meet the Media: Gary Witzenburg, Freelance Automotive Journalist.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I manage the day-to-day operations of WardAuto.com, writing and editing articles for the publication that traces its roots to 1924 as a source of automotive industry news, data and insight. I work with a team of editors, analysts and contributors reporting on a wide range of vehicle news, test drives and dealer and industry news.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

As special publications editor for The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire (the fifth oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S.), Back when I was a newspaper reporter, I wrote a series of articles about an embattled high school principal accused of misconduct, including secretly altering the grades of several students.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

My main coverage and writing focuses are the transportation technology world, and government and regulations related to the trucking and freight industries, along with other website and magazine duties. I had my first staff byline at a small Connecticut newspaper in 2001. Reporter for Automotive News.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

I might write about a local company or service I never knew existed, and the next day might be an enterprise piece about electric vehicles or the steel industry. My first non-school newspaper gig was at the China Daily in 2013. Exercising, often reading newspapers and satire, playing guitar and curating my Spotify playlists.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

I also write the occasional story for our Automotive Engineering and ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazines. A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. Can you tell us what types of stories, trends or issues are on your radar now?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And as a Senior Editor at the greater Internet Brands Automotive Group, which includes The Car Connection, Motor Authority, New Car Test Drive, and Green Car Reports, I’m one of the core editors producing vehicle reviews—mostly from my efficiency perspective. You can follow Bengt on Twitter: ben_gt.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. In my role today, the most fun stories I get to write come from test-driving trucks. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is actually pretty hard for me, since I tend to want to write a story on almost every interesting piece of news I see. I got to write a story on a local stray cat that had been “adopted” by a bed and breakfast. I’ve been putting together a story on it for a bit now. Describe the craziest or most fun story you’ve written.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 15, 2024

I help edit and publish copy, write original content and am currently overseeing the publication of our annual Motorized Vehicle Report. I dabbled at my college newspaper, but my career began in earnest at an international business newsletter called EDM Publications, which was based in Paris at the time but has since moved to Munich.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 5, 2025

If you are a banking client, you could talk about inflation) and pre-write some quotes for those topics. You could write a story around it and then do some link outreach to major pubs in each country. As I write this, its currently freezing rain and snowing here, which has closed all of the schools.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 12, 2025

Each one has a regional subsidiary, and it’s the same with newspapers. So that when you come back to the city center, and you’re in the city center newsrooms, whether it be for, you know, channel nine, channel 10, or like the Herald Sun, the Age, the sort of major daily newspapers, you’re right there and ready to go.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

as part of our coverage of the Detroit Three, but I also cover the automotive industry as a whole and a range of other business-related topics. Several months after I left my job at my hometown newspaper, The Vindicator , I got some texts from friends who still worked there with some ominous-sounding news. I focus on Ford Motor Co.

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