Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What I hadn’t considered is that something similar is happening to software code, according to this podcast interview between Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field and The Wall Street Journal. Just like AI can be trained to write copy, AI can be trained to write code. Propel launches 2.0

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PRSay

JANUARY 5, 2023

Want more proven-in-the-lab techniques for achieving your writing resolutions this year? You’ll learn to write messages that reach more readers and get the word out. But if you’ve resolved to become a better writer this year, here’s help — six of my favorite 2023 writing resolutions to make today: Make it a metaphor.

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Presspage

JANUARY 21, 2025

In this blog, well explore why press releases are still a must-have in 2025, how to write them like a pro, and how to tailor them for any situation. Sally Stewart, author of Media Training 101 , reminds us that a successful press release should make the phone ring or the email ding. Would it spark genuine interest?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

What is the one thing that really gets your attention when a young professional meets with you or interviews with you? You might think that I would focus on writing and speaking skills, or how much a young professional knows about public relations. That’s part of the equation, but not the first thing that stands out.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The idea of a media interview is enough to cause even the most confident executive to break into a cold sweat. To make matters worse for some individuals, the thought of taking a media training session to prepare for interviews can be equally daunting. and how these pressures can affect the interview process. Here’s how.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For example, we occasionally bring in technical writers to interview engineers or other staff at client companies to create background material for long-form content. And we have an ongoing relationship with a morning show specialist who has a line to the key segment producers and will never give up on cracking the big interview!

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Prowly

JANUARY 14, 2025

Go through a Q&A that mirrors an interview with a journalist and discover smart angles for your story. If youre struggling with crafting compelling emails, write them using the new dynamic AI prompts for: expert comment suggestions, interview opportunities, or sharing survey or research results. Do everything in one tool.

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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. For example, offer a percentage discount, early access to new features or free training. In this case, I’d interview the customers and write up a contributed article to pitch.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In PR, we are very organized and are trained to plan events and programs. We write plans that cover several months and in our personal lives we may do the same. PR pros are trained to negotiate with media to get the best story for a client, and sometimes that carries over into our personal lives.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Securing an interview with a media outlet for an executive or other company spokesperson is a dream…except when it’s not. Interviews provide an opportunity to showcase your brand and spokespeople as thought leaders, increase loyalty to your brand, defuse crises and drive sales. Write bullets, not novels. Sound bites.

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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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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this interview, she shares her insights into how marketing has changed over time, the most valuable social media channel for marketers and how to make more of an impact as a marketing professional in your community. I went into Marketing by way of writing. But I thought writing a diary was boring. Ann: Oh boy. Full report.

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Remote PR Jobs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Now you need to make sure your client is adequately prepared for the interview. While public relations is a creative field, a briefing document requires quite a bit of preparation as it incorporates all the nuts and bolts to make an interview run smoothly. The hard part is over, or is it? Briefing document framework.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Re-writing the AI draft “We’ll spend more time rewriting ChatGPT’s draft press releases, and less time finding relevant topics, reporters… thanks to it as well.” PR people and the clients they represent may see a return to the good old phone (or Zoom) interview. Wishing you a safe and happy holiday season.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 13, 2017

The best rule, of course, is to slightly underpromise and overdeliver — in writing. Occasionally we see overconfident executives who feel they aren’t in need of media training. With little reason to believe otherwise, a PR team will sometimes book an interview with a journalist, only to see it go poorly.

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PRSay

JUNE 19, 2018

In my writing workshops I’ll interact with gregarious, personable PR professionals who then turn into corporatized automatons when their fingers touch their keyboards. The same principle applies when writing PR materials or crafting statements for media interviews. That just comes off as self-important and detached.

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Prowly

JANUARY 23, 2025

To strategize better , learn the dos and donts of the quintessential trade media workflow: Task #1: Finding trade media contacts Task #2: Writing pitches to trade media Task #3: Maintaining the relationships See how Prowlys features live up to the challenge of hyper-targeting trade media. Expand your search using keywords suggested by AI.

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5W PR

MARCH 8, 2025

Write your “About” section in first person, sharing your journey and philosophy as a speaker. Consider writing LinkedIn articles about industry trends or speaking techniques. Write blog posts that expand on your keynote themes. Launch a podcast interviewing other experts in your field.

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Flack's Revenge

MARCH 9, 2021

This means models that have been “trained” (fed large data sets to teach computers how to make decisions in “the wild” from new data) on Nvidia can run flawlessly on FPGA (field programmable gate array) chips– which offer certain advantages in terms of flexibility, lifespan, and tolerance of environmental factors. Challenges.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 20, 2019

For more on writing stellar bylines , see our earlier post. Media training. Inexperienced executives shouldn’t commit to a media interview or TV appearance without media prep. PR can train executive spokepeople to avoid the myriad of possible mistakes that can happen when facing the press.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Journalists want to do a great job and they want to write great stories. The pandemic has] been all-consuming, particularly for me as someone who focuses on writing about consumer health,” he said. “I I think we’re much more open to (remote interviews) nowadays, of course,” O’Connor said. Get used to competing with 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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PRSay

MAY 10, 2019

Here are five tips on how to make your writing resonate with readers. In order to engage employees, companies need to cultivate a positive culture, offer workplace training that fuels their careers, develop employee teams that support each other and encourage managers to have more face-to-face communication with direct reports.

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PR Job Coach

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Have the people with whom you interviewed demonstrated leadership to you. At the same time, have those with whom you interviewed struck you as being open and accepting? Do you get a sense of team from your interview experience and from what others outside the organization say or write? Leadership. Collaboration.

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The Proactive Report

AUGUST 28, 2018

Catzavelos’ older brother did an interview on Radio 702 where he shared how this has affected him personally, his relationship with his brother and his father, the loss of his business and the impact on his employees. Adam Catzavelos did write an apology on Twitter but it wasn’t well received.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Thus, we pitch out journalists to “sell” portraits of CEOs, train them and position them as voices that count in their sector and ghost-write for them comments and by-lines on LinkedIn to help them become the experts in their businesses. French journalists do not talk or write about the same company every other day. Be patient.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 17, 2017

From the minute you polish your resume, through the interview process and on to the front lines of account work, PR is a business that demands accountability. ” Master all types of writing. In my first PR job, I was told that if I didn’t love to write, I was in the wrong business. Be scrupulous.

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ReimaginePR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If you’re looking for an easy, but sure way, to define yourself as an expert in your field, here’s my advice: write an ebook. Aside from bragging rights, writing an ebook can help increase your authority because people will begin to see you as an expert on the topic. Don’t allow the prospect of writing an book to overwhelm you.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 3, 2019

While I started engaging on social media channels, I realized that blogging and writing about my experiences would be central to sharing my story. I was just enjoying the opportunity to write and speak about my experiences. It’s a corporate anti-bribery training video about my experience, narrated by a former FBI agent.

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

But it can still provide large returns on investment by generating earned media coverage that doesn’t cost anything but your time and can elevate your client’s profile with one well-placed article or interview. He speaks, trains and writes frequently on using the power of storytelling to advance. Regional Foundation.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 21, 2018

If you’re interested in learning more about becoming crisis ready, and the value the book will provide to you and your team, following are two highly regarded police podcasts that I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be interviewed on. Interview for The Excellent in Training Academy, with Brian Willis.

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Presspage

JANUARY 21, 2025

In this blog, well explore why press releases are still a must-have in 2025, how to write them like a pro, and how to tailor them for any situation. Sally Stewart, author of Media Training 101 , reminds us that a successful press release should make the phone ring or the email ding. Would it spark genuine interest?

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 27, 2024

You can repurpose existing HR content—brand videos, welcome packets, training quizzes, FAQs—to get freelancers thinking the way you do. A couple simply forward me press releases and offers for interviews, and I can choose whether to bite or not. But keep in mind that you should pay freelancers for this time.

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

In this interview, she discusses how she came to her success, what makes her choose to cover a story and how communication professionals can improve their pitching strategies. When you start to become blasé and complacent about your writing, that’s when you stop doing such a good job. How did you get your start in journalism?

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this interview, she shares her insights into how marketing has changed over time, the most valuable social media channel for marketers and how to make more of an impact as a marketing professional in your community. I went into Marketing by way of writing. But I thought writing a diary was boring. Ann: Oh boy. Full report.

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Ishmael's Corner

MAY 5, 2015

The reason PR fails at storytelling often has nothing to do with understanding the makings of a good story or writing expertise. Instead, the root cause can lie in the interviewing process for sourcing the content. I think it’s fair to say that interviewing tends to be an undervalued expertise in the communications industry.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In my last post , I shared three ways to bungle your product launch and touched briefly on preparing your executives for media interviews. First, why is media training so important? 1) They think an interview is just about answering questions. An interview is not about answering a reporter’s questions!

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