PRSay

MAY 3, 2019

On April 27, Bloomberg published an inaccurate, one-sided piece titled “Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffet Sees Newspapers Dying.”. As the article noted, billionaire investor Warren Buffet sees the traditional newspaper slipping away. It’s imperative that public relations and journalism remain equal and accountable.

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Cision

JANUARY 28, 2016

In this interview, Stuart discusses his motives for making the switch, the value of a news background and the intersection of journalism and PR. What was behind your decision to switch from journalism to PR? But the newspaper climate has changed. Learn how with our brand journalism white paper! It was a tough decision.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 21, 2020

Last Saturday, there was a wonderful article in the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about groups of kids who had started neighborhood newspapers during the pandemic. First, we need more local journalism–whether it’s professional or not. And second, school newspapers are in my blood. when I was 17.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 30, 2018

Better Writing Blogs. Posts run the gamut from writing advice like “How to Write Clickworthy – but Clickbaity – Content” to marketing your efforts with topics like “What’s the Difference Between Promotion and Distribution Strategies in Digital Marketing? Authentic Storytelling Project.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Is this a sign of the future of PR (and journalism)? ” Run an ad in a newspaper and it needs to be labeled as an ad. ” The bottom line, though, I think (but of course I’m biased) is that strong writing will continue to be the most important skill for both journalists and PR professionals.

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Cision

JANUARY 22, 2016

It may interrupt them in the middle of writing a story, or worse, prevent them from taking a call with a hot news tip. There is no other newspaper like The New York Times. It’s The Newspaper of Record, The Grey Lady, and a journalism institution. Don’t call. Know the paper.

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Masters in Communications

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Today's journalism is a far cry from what it used to be. In the past, you received the majority of your news and information from your local newspaper published every morning. Add in a few national newspapers, and that was it. Newspapers are still around today, but we have so much more to go along with them.

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

How did you get your start in journalism? I wanted to be a writer from an early age and after I completed a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course when I was 18, I started working for my local newspaper in Cheshire, England, where I lived. How did you get to this stage in your career?

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I was managing our social media channels, while Jordan was writing the story you mentioned. We were right there hanging with the media reporters from the big newspapers and publications in the Twin Cities. It was, essentially, an internal newspaper for the University of St. How is that possible? A new multimedia hub was born.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

With Claire Shipman, Kay wrote “Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success,” “The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance — What Women Should Know,” and “The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self.”. It makes our journalism better.

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PRSay

MAY 8, 2018

In one class, we were asked to write a release based on a police report. Judy: I also went to UF, but studied journalism. I started out working for a small-town newspaper, and then for many years I was director of PR for Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. Karlie: Writing is still key, along with planning and being organized.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Baruch Lev, a pre-eminent IR scholar at New York University, writes in his book, Winning Investors Over , “Investors have limited attention, so content that gets good earned media will attract more investor attention.” So what do journalists have to do with that? A lot, actually. That’s right.

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

We’ve watched traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television decrease in importance thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other social platforms. Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism. Whether the effect is positive or negative, AI will likely impact PR and communications.

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Landis PR

MARCH 4, 2024

For example, if a trusted blogger writes that this product is really great – do you believe that writer or the marketing-speak on a company’s website? Example: pitch a story on a newly opened hiking trail to an outdoors editor at a local newspaper who also has a following on social media. His/her audience is your target.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I’ve always been a news junkie and loved to write since I was a little kid. I had a few stories published in high school journals, and starting around junior high I used to write letters to the editor of the local paper. Learn to write well. Read the newspaper – the whole newspaper. Karma is real.

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PRSay

JUNE 18, 2019

What is the thought process at the AP behind making changes to longstanding style rules (like the change to writing out state names in datelines, for example)? Writing in AP style means they’re speaking the language of the people they are pitching. she holds a master’s degree in arts journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since I graduated in December 2021, I’ve been an associate editor within the engineering field, first for Microwave Journal and since January at EE World Online and all the sites it handles. Being that I’m fresh in the industry I haven’t gotten the chance to write many stories, so for now my most fun story is also the one I’m most proud of.

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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. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? It was even heated!

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Ishmael's Corner

APRIL 28, 2015

Since Craigslist eviscerated the classified ads business in newspapers, journalists have been writing the “poor me” story. At some point, it became fashionable for these “poor me” stories to blame the PR industry for journalism’s shrinking job pool. Will the world of journalism be like the “good ole days” ever again?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Away from Transmission Digest, I spent several years writing a satirical column for a local, every-other-week newspaper. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started with high school and college newspapers. Describe the craziest or most fun story you’ve written.

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Cision

APRIL 26, 2016

Also, write as much and as often as possible – it’s a skill you’ll need to continuously work on and you’ll only improve the more you do it. My daily newspaper of choice is…The Wall Street Journal. What drew you to the field of public relations and communication? Rapid Fire Round. Images via Pixabay: 1 , 2.

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David PR Group

OCTOBER 9, 2014

One of the first things I learned in journalism school, and later honed in my PR career, was the concept of knowing one’s audience. For example, when writing for the general “newspaper-reading” public, you need to make sure your text is crafted at no more than an eleventh-grade reading level. ” Gag me!

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Prakkypedia

MARCH 31, 2019

Don’t overlook the people that work in your organisation: they could be the key to your next magazine piece, newspaper profile or 30-minute radio conversation. They’re the longer-form radio chat shows, the magazines containing feature articles, the Sunday newspapers with double-page spreads.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

How do you think your background in journalism will help you in this new role? How did you make the switch from journalism to PR? I ended 45 years in journalism when I retired as editor of the Austin American-Statesman in 2008, so it didn’t feel like a “switch” so much as completing one phase of my life. They all get it.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I’m Seth Clevenger, managing editor for features at Transport Topics , a weekly newspaper and multimedia outlet dedicated to covering trucking and the freight transportation industry. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I also produce audio and video content for our online and multimedia channels.

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Presspage

JANUARY 23, 2018

In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to become a full-time journalist blogger. He writes the blog Silicon Valley Watcher — reporting on the collision of media and technology. Press release! In 2006, Foremski published one of his most unforgettable blogs titled Die!

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 27, 2019

People now spend only 11 minutes a day consuming newspaper media, and 9 minutes a day consuming magazine media. Blog content from people with varying writing skills (this even applies to some “media “sites now). But, over the last 10-15 years, a lot has happened. Posts from friends (full of typos and poor grammar).

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 28, 2017

Negotiations on exact embargo times have become more complicated, but not insurmountable, as major financial newspapers publish in different editions and time zones, as well as online. English may be the universal language of business, but we don’t all speak or write the same English. Communications here and abroad.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

I went into Marketing by way of writing. But I thought writing a diary was boring. I worked at newspapers, magazines, and became the world’s first Chief Content Officer at one company (ClickZ) and now hold the title at another ( MarketingProfs ). What inspired you to write the book? Ann: Oh boy. How much time do we have…?

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

I was the gaming reporter for the last 11 years covering the casino industry for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and dealing day-to-day with corporate communications folks from the various gaming companies. It’s rare nowadays that the morning newspaper or the evening news telecast breaks a story. Rapid Fire Round.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

We are a business-to-business weekly newspaper covering the trucking and logistics industries. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I’ve been in journalism for 22 years. I fell in love with writing when I was in sixth grade. At my desk, I just stared at the picture and started writing.

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PR Fuel

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

You could pitch individual newspapers and magazines. But you’ll have to spend time writing individual pitches based on those publications. That takes time, and you may spend more time on it than you did writing the press release. You can write the press release and submit it through a media distribution company.

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Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

She began her career as an aspiring newspaper reporter, securing an internship at the Atlanta Journal Constitution before becoming a daily reporter in Greenville, South Carolina, not far from her hometown. Pivoting from journalism to PR. I knew that journalism was changing,” she said. “I Sure, I can do that. ”.

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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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David PR Group

OCTOBER 17, 2014

More than 15 years ago, I began telling people that the Internet might kill newspapers but that it won’t end journalism. Remember, journalism was created to educate, inform, and persuade people, and our nation’s first journalists were not writing to please advertisers.

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Solo PR Pro

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I was that first grader who wanted to start up a class newspaper,” he jokes when describing himself. He was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered and Morning Edition and ended up as an intern in NPR’s Washington Bureau a year later, gaining extensive industry experience and honing his writing skills.

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Cision

MAY 3, 2016

How does your background in journalism give you an edge in managing media relations? In addition, they have been trained to write pieces that gain mass appeal. Read what they are writing about and react to it. My daily newspaper of choice is…the major dailies in the morning. What are some of your top pitching tips?

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