In most of my posts so far, I’ve talked about what I do and how I’m adjusting. I briefly mentioned a couple of writers in a previous post, so I thought it would be helpful to introduce some of the other faces behind University News. Let’s start at the top: Bob Finnerty is our chief more »
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News placements, which I’ll call “clips” for short, are stories in the newspaper, on TV, on the radio and on the Web in main- and not-so-mainstream media that somehow mention RIT. We use the same online service that sends out our news releases to keep track of incoming news clips. Using some fancy algorithm, the more »
Categories: Inside N&E, News & Events Daily, PR musings, Under the Hood 3 CommentsAs you know from my earlier posts, one of my duties at University News includes proofreading and sending out news releases. And as you know, our writers have specific beats. Will Dube covers the College of Liberal Arts. Vienna Carvalho covers student affairs. And that stuff is great because I know what liberal arts and more »
Categories: Inside N&E, News & Events Daily, PR musings, Research, Under the Hood Comments OffI’m in transition. Instead of going to Wegmans on Tuesday (previously my day off) when it’s just me, retirees and stay-at-home moms, I go on the weekend, when everybody goes. Same thing with doctor appointments, vet appointments, trips to the mall, etc. Instead of getting up a 9 a.m., sometimes 11 a.m., in order to more »
Categories: Inside N&E, News & Events Daily, PR musings, Under the Hood Comments OffSo what does an editorial assistant do? I help put together News & Events Daily, the e-newsletter you should be getting through Message Center every day at 11:25 a.m. (Questions? Ideas? Requests? E-mail news&events@mail.rit.edu!) I proofread and send out news releases to campus leaders and media outlets. And I do some administrative-type things, like compiling more »
Categories: Inside N&E, News & Events Daily, PR musings, Under the Hood 1 CommentI never thought I’d be back in school. Well, I guess I’m not really in school—I’m at school. I started working for RIT’s University News team in October. I came from the Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester’s major metro newspaper, where I had worked as a copy editor since graduating from St. John Fisher College in more »
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