Tag Archives: journalism

Hispanic Media Experts Advise DC-Area Audience on Marketing to Latinos

by Danny Selnick, Vice President, Public Policy Services Business Wire’s LatinoWire hosted a panel  event for professional communicators on Sept. 28 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The panel featured: Erica Gonzalez, Executive Editor of El Diario/La Prensa Julio Aliaga, News Director, Telemundo (Washington, DC affiliate) Hilda Garcia, Vice President of Multiplatform Content [...]

Tumblr, Storify and More: Journalists Embracing New Media Tools, PR Community Should, Too

PR Peeps take note of these new media tools being embraced by online journalists. Great opportunities for you and your clients.

Denver-Area Journalists Discuss Newsroom Cutbacks, Pitching Tips

Denver area journalists talk pitching, mobile, how media downsizing has changed their jobs, AND the jobs of PR professionals. Note: it’s STILL about the relationship.

Dispelling the Darkness with Brand Journalism

Guest post by Kyle Monson, a former technology journalist and editor at PC Magazine, is Content Strategy Director at JWT. Follow him on Twitter @kmonson You probably already know this, but we marketers are the bad guys in the battle of good versus evil. One commonly employed metaphor—“The Dark Side”—is particularly apt: we hunt down [...]

Hybrid Approach: Reporters Use Social Networks, but Prefer Phone and Email for PR Pitches

Journalists appear to prefer a hybrid appoach when using traditional and new media for reporting and gathering news, survey finds.

Two Great Tips for Pitching Health and Life Science Reporters

Two great pitching tips for reaching health sciences, pharma, and medical device reporters.

The End of the Destination Web and the Revival of the Information Economy

In recent weeks journalism and the future of all media have once again gone under the knife. Experts on either side of new media debated whether or not Twitter’s CNN moment truly was indicative of the future of journalism. Twitter’s role in the spread of online dialogue speculating the death of Osama Bin Laden was [...]

This just in…News no longer breaks, it Tweets

Following the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death, Twitter once again celebrated its CNN-moment. This isn’t its first however, which actually seems to be news to emerging media pundits. The new reality of a real-time world is that news no longer breaks, it Tweets. We are the architects of a new media alert system, TNN [...]

Friday Fast Links: Agencies, redundancies and more

Can your copy be helped by repetition and redundancy? If past history is any guide . . . If your PR agency never tells you you’re wrong, they’re probably one of the five types to avoid. When and how should online news stories include hyperlinks? My hometown paper made the Top 25 Newspapers on Twitter. [...]

Los Angeles Tech Reporters Offer Tips for Pitching Tech Media

Los Angeles area tech reporters share tips on pitching high tech media at Business Wire breakfast.