Tag Archives: Raschanda Hall

Milwaukee Media Discuss Pitching Tips and Media Relations Best Practices

Milwaukee Journalists Offer Pitching and Placement Tips at Recent Business Wire Media Mixer

Business Wire Gives Back: BW Staff Goes Back to School to Help Students Find Success

Business Wire’s 50th Anniversary celebration this year features the BW Gives Back volunteer program, which affords employees the opportunity to “go to work” in their communities for the educational or charitable organizations that mean the most to them. Executive Vice President Laura Sturaitis spent last Thursday sharing her time and expertise with job seekers among the students, alumnae and members of the [...]

Event Recap: Chicago-area New Media Opportunities

by Andrea Gillespie, Account Executive, Business Wire/Chicago Successful media relations in Chicago over the last several years has meant both strengthening your news eye to find and pitch the most relevant stories, and finding new places, people and forms of media in which you can get those stories picked up. While some news holes seems to be [...]

What Do Journos at Trade Shows Want? Press Kits!

This post is by Raschanda Hall, Business Wire’s Manager, Global Media Relations, who is attending the Chicago Auto Show this week.
As the second day of the Chicago Auto Show started, short lines formed at the Subaru “Share the Love” breakfast. Journalists traveled thousands of miles for the biggest consumer auto show in North America.
“There [...]