Tag Archives: Washington Post

Media Relations in the Digital Age Event Recap

by Cecile Oreste, Media Relations Specialist, Business Wire DC Members of the Business Wire/DC team were in attendance at Media Relations in the Digital Age held at the US Navy Memorial & Heritage Center on Wednesday, July 14th.  The event, which was organized by the Professional Development Committee of the PRSA – National Capital Chapter, [...]

Interview with Emilio Garcia-Ruiz of The Washington Post

– by Cecile Oreste, Media Relations Specialist, Business Wire/DC I recently met with Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor for the Local section of The Washington Post, to talk about newsgathering trends and press release distribution.  Emilio has extensive knowledge of these topics, with more than 25 years of experience in the newspaper industry and a journalism degree [...]

Business Wire: Remaining Relevant for All The Right Reasons

by Neil Hershberg, Senior Vice President, Global Media, Business Wire The Washington Post Company’s decision to put Newsweek on the block this week is the latest example of the modern Darwinism that is radically reshaping the media industry. For me, the news was more personal, having  spent a decade [1977-1987] at Newsweek when it was [...]

Press Releases are More than Just News; They are Valuable Content Across the Web

It’s no secret that Business Wire pushes out news to a broad community of journalists through many means, just as we have been doing for nearly 50 years.  And we’ve been posting press releases to the Web as long as it’s been possible to do so.  But the media landscape has changed over the past [...]