Rock the Status Quo

DECEMBER 11, 2014

.” “I need to reschedule [ because of a non-important fluff meeting ] and I’m double-booked; can the reporter reschedule?” ” Even “My lawyer won’t let me talk about it [ said after they approved your pitch and the reporter was hooked on the idea ].” Hmmm, wonder why. C’est la vie!

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Cision

JUNE 7, 2017

Much of my digital footprint has come from responding to HARO ( Help a Reporter Out ) queries. After several email and phone interviews, I was selected to go to Chicago, appear on the show and compete on Steve Harvey’s Top Inventor segment. ” When I heard back, I found out It was the Steve Harvey Show.

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Google Reputation How To Television 319

Prakkypedia

APRIL 23, 2019

After several grumpy episodes interviewing local people about their so-called “stories”, Ricky’s character has an epiphany. He says ‘ everybody deserves to be in their local paper’ at least once in their lives. In Ricky Gervais’s latest TV series, After Life , he’s a writer at a free community newspaper.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A “reference” could be a case study , participation in a marketing event, a quote for the media, or an interview with an analyst, to name a few. Local groups – often facilitated through platforms like Meetup – are another opportunity. In this case, I’d interview the customers and write up a contributed article to pitch.

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B2B Case Study Study Conference 142

Cision

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

I recently spent a year interviewing senior public relations professionals in 31 countries about best practices in their cultures for my newly-published book, Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street: How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication. Make friends with local influencers. Get more PR tips now.

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The GCS COVID-19 Communications Industry Report tells the story of a profession demonstrating agility, innovation and resilience. I’m the lead researcher and author of the report. These stories have been recorded and published in a report published by the Government Communication Service (GCS) COVID-19 Advisory Panel.

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Report Communications Government Crisis 144

Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Television viewership is steady and national/local radio remains popular: on average, people watch more than three hours of TV and listen to more than three hours of radio every day. The sector is stable, with most agencies reporting business and employment growth in 2023, as well as increasing demand for PR services from the corporate world.

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Onclusive

APRIL 12, 2018

Kathy sits on the Executive team at UL and reports to the President and CEO. We also had only a few in-country marketers who were managing our corporate presence and reputation locally in international markets, and we now have strong talent in our growing international markets. This blogpost was co-authored by Heidi Sullivan.

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Content Marketing Interviews Marketing Leadership 170

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

It dates back to the days when authors would travel from city to city to promote a new book in a blitz of media interviews, or when celebrities push a film to 20 cities in an afternoon of local TV chats via satellite. Be discreet when arranging interviews with publications that compete with one another to avoid awkward moments.

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Media Meeting Interviews Film 207

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When your company secures an interview with a major media outlet, you may feel the urge to celebrate. Just don’t let your executive or chosen company spokesperson arrive to the interview unprepared! Read below as Brad offers tips that will help anyone who conducts or prepares others for media interviews.

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Interviews How To Healthcare Media Training 120

Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The insights gained for the survey provided key details on the current earned media environment, highlighting the challenges faced in national, local, and trade media. It seems reporters are more frequently being asked to cover general assignments rather than the specialized beats we saw pre-COVID.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2014

For the next in the series, Carmen graciously offered to ask a tech journalist friend the following questions (the reporter requested that we protect her identity; I can say she is the real deal – writes for a Chinese tech publication that has a circulation of well over 1M, and she has a similar number of Weibo followers).

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Print Transportation Conference Technology 201

Prowly

MARCH 12, 2025

There are still so many opportunities to earn mentions in paper publications on a national and local level. Using key phrases adds a little context to your query, so you can report only the results that reflect your real PR impact. Reputation management Let's say a CEO of your company gives a controversial interview.

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Print Strategy How To Newspapers 104

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Special and mid-term elections at the local level, like last week’s contests in Virginia and New Jersey offer more relevant lessons for PRs. PR lessons from local and regional elections. Will the team have updates to the original news to keep going back to “fence-sitter” reporters and help close on a story?

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Local Pitching Interviews B2B 159

Presspage

JANUARY 21, 2025

Pro Tip: Presspage makes it easy to target the right audience with our media database of millions of GDPR-compliant journalist profiles, advanced filters, and hyper-local distribution. Tips for writing a great press release We interviewed seven PR professionals to learn their best practices for effective press releases.

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Writing How To Product Launch Crisis 78

Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

John, transportation reporter at Business Insider. My reporting focuses on electric vehicles, the future of the legacy auto industry, the shift to electrification and startups in the EV space. I’m proud of my reporting for Automotive News on the supply chain production halts and ramp up early in the pandemic in spring 2020.

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Transportation Meeting Report Automotive 95

Cision

JUNE 8, 2017

Cision’s 2017 State of the Media Report revealed that more than half of journalists and influencers are driven to pursue a story because a PR professional has displayed knowledge of their past work, interests and beats. Aside from crucial logistical details (the 5 W’s, and how), design your brief so that it contains the following information.

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Pitching Print Conference Local 225

Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Do not copy-paste the global comms strategy: The media will not pick up info that is not local-relevant. In order to stand out in French media, make sure that you have solid news with – again – local-relevant content. For more statistics on France and to download the author’s full bio and market report, click here. Be patient.

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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. If so, how? Make them care.

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Storytelling Media Nonprofit Government 163

PR for Anyone

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Beginning her career as an associated publicist for United Artists and interviewing celebrities, she realized she was getting more out of her interviewees in the car on the way to the events than the reporters were. When she interviewed these celebrities, her icebreaker would be to ask about their animals.

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Interviews Financial Report Local 130

Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 6, 2015

The local experts we spoke to described New England reporters as ‘distrustful of PR efforts’ and ‘bordering on cranky’. Thankfully, PR people and spokespeople can expect to experience a more respectful and curious class of reporter in the East South Central region (including states like Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee).

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Ethical Voices

APRIL 22, 2024

I was pitching four reporters, three of which I knew pretty well. The fourth reporter I didn’t know as well, but I had worked with off and on. ” We continued to chat via text and answer the questions…normal reporter correspondence with the PR practitioner. ” This is a very experienced reporter and editor.

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Report How To Ethics Nonprofit 92

Polaris

DECEMBER 11, 2014

dpms is a local London business that sells branded apparel, jewelry and products by local artisans. The win inspired Metro News , a local tabloid, to profile dpms in a feature story. If your reputation is threatened or your stock price could be hurt, by all means contact the reporter. Then let them know the correct facts.

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Media Apparel Ethics Interviews 123

Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But, as you’ll quickly see in this short interview, Dan is a whole lot more. And, he may be the first (and only) journalist to interview cats on TV! I was a radio news reporter for three years in St. Paul Business Journal reporting on retail and restaurants before I started my career at Life Time in May 2018.

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Radio Journalism Interviews Energy 167

5W PR

AUGUST 6, 2018

Landing an important interview with a popular industry publication can be an exciting part of a company’s PR strategy. No matter how prepared the spokesperson for a brand feels they are, some interviews can go south very quickly. Good interview subjects will answer the question in a way that draws attention back to their brand.

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Interviews Media Agency Conference 74

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Years ago, when I was confronted with the empty press room as a young Account Supervisor, my boss ordered me to call a few people back at the office and make them come out to impersonate reporters. (We One team I was on spent days messaging, rehearsing, and scripting a client company founder, only to see one bungled interview after another.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Years ago, when I was confronted with the empty press room as a young Account Supervisor, my boss ordered me to call a few people back at the office and make them come out to impersonate reporters. (We One team I was on spent days messaging, rehearsing, and scripting a client company founder, only to see one bungled interview after another.

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Agency Television Radio Pitching 227

Onclusive

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Shashi Bellamkonda, CMO, Surefire Local. Setting benchmarks and measurements to gauge success in your brand awareness efforts will help you report back to the C-Suite. Create a webinar, YouTube video, Facebook video blog post, SlideShare, eBook and a podcast, building an on-demand library all from one initiative.

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Branding Brand eBook Leadership 246

Reputation Us

AUGUST 28, 2015

Whether you actively pitched your business’ news to local reporters, or they outreached to you for an upcoming editorial feature, you should always know the process for seizing the moment so you don’t miss out on a potential PR goldmine. The post Tips to Prepare for a Media Interview appeared first on LTPR.

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Barokas

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

My professors assumed every journalism student knew what PR was, so I never sought clarity on the job description, because I didn’t want to discredit my reporter title. I quickly fell in love with the field, and started to build my PR resume, but I’m thankful I worked as a reporter first. You learn to tell stories about everything.

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Report Fashion Pitching Journalism 68

Cision

JUNE 25, 2015

This practice has another added benefit for PR pros: today’s reporter is expected to drive traffic to his or her news outlet. This tactic can be especially effective for garnering local press (Think: Local company earns coveted spot on prestigious Inc. Is there a topic you wish the reporter had delved a little deeper?

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LinkedIn Pitching Interviews Journalism 120

Cision

OCTOBER 21, 2016

California-based single-agency PR firm the NALA, and its sister company STARKART, needed to find a solution to target each client’s specific audience base, prove success with essential reports and increase overall efficiency to compete with larger firms. Recognized as the industry leader, Cision was the obvious choice.

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Software Agency Case Study Television 120

Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

I am the finance and technology reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business , covering the startup sector in Ann Arbor and Detroit, as well as the region’s banks and lenders, such as Rocket Mortgage and UWM. Particularly within my role as a finance reporter, money is always a good news hook. What story or stories are you most proud of?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Kurt Nagl is a reporter, covering manufacturing for Crain’s Detroit Business. Those experiences helped shape my world view and taught me how to report in difficult situations with patience and empathy, which is a practice I try to take to every story. As a business reporter, I find great enjoyment in learning new things.

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Meeting Report Media Newspapers 73

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. Finish this sentence: If I am not reporting, I am … Playing with my kids, fishing, hiking, biking, reading, watching TV/movies or playing basketball. I’m senior editor at SME Media.

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Meeting Media Interviews Pitching 97

Cision

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

In our media training sessions, I usually lead off practice interviews with a seemingly simple question: Can you tell me about your company? Oftentimes, they encounter such objections during media interviews, panel discussions, and contentious client meetings. There are many reasons executives might say too much during an interview.

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Media Training Media Training Interviews 120

PRSay

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We may not think about it that way — we’re simply drafting a memo to employees or writing the president’s message for an annual report. When interviewing executives, listen for phrases, word and sentence lengths, and unusual terms they favor. For particularly important assignments, it’s a good idea to record the interviews.

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