With the daily print media marketplace consolidating and shrinking news staffs, important placement opportunities still exist at the often-overlooked suburban media outlets. This fact was put into focus at the Publicity Club of Chicago’s (PCC) annual suburban meeting in Oakbrook, Ill.
The panel included Business Ledger Editor Don Kopriva; Daily Herald Assistant City Editor Anne Halston; [...]
With the news landscape ever shifting and changing, a prestige panel of business editors and reporters addressed the future of business news during the March Publicity Club of Chicago luncheon. John Vita, national communications director, Grant Thorton, LLP, moderated the discussion, which featured Wall Street Journal Deputy Bureau Chief Joe Barrett, FOX Business Network Reporter [...]
At the February meeting of the Publicity Club of Chicago, Julie Deardorff from the Chicago Tribune and Lewis Lazare from the Chicago Sun-Times held a lively discussion about the evolution of print news and the future of daily newspapers. Moderator Sue Margraf from GreenMark PR led the discussion.
Following are highlights of the discussion, courtesy of [...]
By Sue Masaracchia-Roberts, Publicity Club of Chicago
A panel of top editorial board editors told a packed PCC luncheon that editorial boards are taking a different look at their responsibilities and approach to the needs of their respective media outlets.
Jeffrey Bierig, former Chicago Tribune media relations manager and now the director of media relations for the [...]
By Aliza Sherman
As a reporter receiving dozens of e-mail pitches daily, here are some things that would make my life easier, set your pitch apart from the rest and improve your chances of getting ink for your client. Let’s start from the top.
1. Focus Your Subject
I can’t tell you how many pitches I [...]
PR Newswire recently hosted a webinar, “Strengthening Your Media Relations with ProfNet,†to explore how communications professionals can cost-effectively build relationships with journalists by utilizing all the tools available in ProfNet.
The presentation covered how to:
· Receive and respond to daily leads from journalists seeking expert sources
· Proactively engage with media by connecting with journalists you couldn’t access [...]
Following is a Q&A with Brad Grimes, editor of Hanley Wood’s Digital Home:
By Greg Shemitz
Q: What’s your background as a journalist? What are your responsibilities at Digital Home?
A: I’ve been writing and editing technology stories since 1991 when I started my career at Ziff Davis’ PC Magazine. After getting my master’s degree in journalism from [...]
APG Media announced that its lifestyle group has launched two shelter publications: Lofts, on stands Oct. 16; and Lodges, which will hit stands Oct. 23. The two new titles join Romantic Homes, Victorian Homes and the recently and successfully launched Cottages & Bungalows.
Lofts magazine’s mission is to explore the urban lifestyle anywhere, capitalizing on a [...]
The Forward, America’s most influential Jewish weekly newspaper, is expanding its West Coast coverage and has opened a Los Angeles bureau.
Staff Reporter Rebecca Spence will cover the nation’s second largest Jewish population and a wide range of topics, including politics, entertainment, and local Jewish news and organizations.
“The feedback from both readers and advertisers clearly [...]
Following is a Q&A with Daniel Thigpen, reporter for The (Stockton) Record:
By Greg Shemitz
Q: What’s your background as a journalist? What are your responsibilities at The Record?
A: I graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill journalism school in 2004 and spent a year covering nearly every news beat at The News Tribune in Washington [...]