Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

We are a business-to-business weekly newspaper covering the trucking and logistics industries. From there, I joined any school newspaper or group that allowed me to write, eventually found my passion for reading, pursued a career, and now, I’m a happy man. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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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. Rather than highlighting a specific story, I’ll just mention that business travel is one of the best parts of my job. Know your audience.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

It’s rare nowadays that the morning newspaper or the evening news telecast breaks a story. During my journalism career, I can’t count how many times someone in PR pitched me on a story that I had already written or had nothing to do with my beat. We have to adapt to the immediacy of the media market. Rapid Fire Round.

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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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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

Instead, they pitched me on a position they had open. My daily newspaper of choice is…newspaper? My hobbies outside of work include…I’m a big fan of travel, and there are plenty of places in the world left for me to visit and drink their local beers. And they told a good story.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. Working at newspapers for a few years taught me to always consider the audience when you’re writing. Start simple by asking: Who cares?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

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. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? I’m happy to chat about story ideas and pitches of all sorts. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I’m the senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch, where I focus on all the ways — present and future — that people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. Since then, I have worked in weekly and then daily newspapers, online media outlets and magazines. What advice do you have for PR people who want to pitch you?

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Marketwired

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Whether you’re writing last-minute seasonal blog content or already gearing up for a new year of media pitching (and if you are, we applaud you), a little inspiration can go a long way around now. Fifty years later the newspaper industry adopted the word to refer to “a unit of writing that can be used over and over without change.”

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Apart from the usual layoffs, cost reduction, and restructuring, we have seen newspapers and magazines getting thinner, TV stations cutting back on programming, and several publications and channels are on the block. Pitching journalists via phone calls, e-mails, and SMS’ are not the only ways of securing media coverage anymore.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 10, 2023

I’ve been in this business almost 20 years now, and worked for my college, high school and junior high newspapers before that. (I’ve What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? A great PR pitch needs to tell me why I care so I can help tell readers why they care, too. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Particularly for heavy-duty commercial vehicles that carry heavier loads and travel longer distances, hydrogen fuel cells increasingly are gaining interest. A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Prakkypedia

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Several times a week, I receive emailed media releases or media pitches from a wide variety of firms with a wide variety of topics and “stories to sell”. It’s useful and instructive because I gain insights into how some PR practitioners pitch to media, how they structure their email pitches, how they write their media releases and more.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

As the face of our brand, I am responsible for traveling to industry events and networking with our readers, advertisers and others. I have been in journalism or PR for 25 years — I went to Boston University for journalism and upon graduation, I worked as a business reporter for a local daily newspaper on the outside of Cleveland.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Editors are busy and flooded with emails and PR pitches all the time.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We went from pitching and coordinating on-site, face-to-face interviews and media meetings at key industry conferences, shows and events to attending these conferences, shows and industry events virtually with very limited (and somewhat unfulfilling) online media interaction.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

Campaigns might involve pitching a quote from a thought leader to a journalist writing about a related topic or creating and pitching content highlighting data from a commissioned industry survey. Traditional PR may encompass online media but mainly focuses on newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV.

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MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

Traveling with Lt. I illustrate this for people with my hands: If you only get your news from newspapers and TV, hold your hands six inches apart – that’s all the news you’re getting. That kind of PR pitching reveals a shot-gun approach. What was it like handling PR for Jesse? "I My answer is: if I see it, I’ll delete it.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

The founder of Moneywehave.com, a personal finance and travel site, simply doesn’t have the time or the resources to shoot video or create infographics himself. Send More Multimedia in PR Pitches. Many of those images show up in magazines, newspapers and blogs, she says. How many hours do you want to spend on this?”

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Doctor Spin

MARCH 1, 2024

Newspapers, magazines, television stations, and online media companies may have entry-level positions in their PR or communications departments. Travel- and hospitality industry. Local, state, and federal government entities often hire entry-level PR professionals to handle public relations and communications tasks. Media outlets.

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Beyond PR

JANUARY 9, 2017

PR includes the creation and distribution of information, primarily in the form of stories, published or broadcast by mass media such as newspapers, magazines, television, blogs, podcast and radio. She enjoys French Fries, traveling, volunteering and the art of communications and public relations. “No” is sometimes good.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 7, 2025

1 Based on these results, most believe digital PR mainly involves pitching data-led content, expert commentary, and creative hero content. There’s less resource risk as we know data will tell a story and offer a lot of angles to pitch out to press. EXPERT OPINIONS Why dont more PRs pitch press releases as part of digital PR?

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Communications Conversations

MAY 13, 2015

She is editor-in-chief of The Winonan , WSU’s campus newspaper; she is president of the WSU Public Relations Student Society of America chapter; and she is executive director of the WSU St. With a passion for storytelling and nomadic spirit, Natalie realized she could combine her love for writing and travel with a career in public relations.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

With such a huge chunk of the audience online, it becomes increasingly important to reach them outside of the traditional ways of communicating (newspapers/magazines/TV/radio). A quick crisp e-mail with images or infographic has a better chance of catching the media’s fancy than long pitch notes or press releases.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Since not many agencies do pitching and content ideation for international clients, I thought I could learn a lot from speaking with her—and I was not disappointed. She shares insights and tactical advice from years of experience (and success) from pitching internationally. Like you have to be pitching your stuff. So via email.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Writing media pitches for data-led stories or studies is very different from writing a media pitch to promote the launch of a new product, service, or event. Maybe you’re wondering what your pitch should include. Or are you struggling to figure out how best to structure your pitch? What is a Media Pitch?

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Buzzstream

MARCH 12, 2025

The second is where we get some tactical information about pitch strategy, email crafting, and media list building. Um, I also wanted to travel. So I then moved to Singapore where I traveled around Asia for a while. Each one has a regional subsidiary, and it’s the same with newspapers. Don’t miss this one!

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Some of the most fun I’ve had as a reporter has involved traveling to Washington, D.C. Some of the most fun I’ve had as a reporter has involved traveling to Washington, D.C. 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.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Britt and Jaclyn interview journalists and PRs from across the media landscape, amassing many insights into the pitch process. Journalists are getting slammed with More and probably worse pitches, right? So yes, there are fewer people to pitch. So working on a moving scams study, many angles could be pitched around this study.

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PRSay

JUNE 5, 2023

Thurston is a speaker at PRSA’s Travel and Tourism Conference, held June 20-23, at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, Wis. Are CVBs and other tourism groups pitching you now to come and visit? As we head into summer, do you have any travel and tourism trends to share?

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

But the evocatively-titled website Newspaper Death Watch continues to track newspapers, from Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to the Tampa Tribune, that have closed in a column headed “R.I.P.”. Mike recognizes that newspapers that pulled away from their daily print publishing were hurt by it. “The And do you read books?

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

He travels a lot and often speaks in front of world leaders, practitioners, students, and opinion-makers on the modern public relations and social media topics. When I was a teenager, something like 13-14 years old, I was publishing a neighborhood newspaper on a typewriting machine. Today we have a very interesting guest with us.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

On top of all that, she has also served as a DJ for the campus radio station, feature writer for both the student newspaper and yearbook, and as a sports nutrition PR intern. While quickly becoming a leader and serving in several officer positions within the organization, she has traveled to numerous PRSSA National events over the years.

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5W PR

JANUARY 21, 2020

I have a huge passion for travel, so exploring London in our free time was an exciting part of the experience for me. This is the majority of initial thoughts when traveling to London. One thing that really stood out to me was a lead generation tactic that their crisis department leveraged…Newspapers. and how it’s similar.

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