Categories: OLD Media Moves

PR Newswire to provide content for Biz Journals web sites

PR Newswire, which distributes company press releases, has struck a deal to provide press releases on the web sites of American City Business Journals’ papers, according to a release.

The release stated, “PR Newswire content will be featured throughout Bizjournals’ online sites which include The San Francisco Business Times, The Washington Business Journal and the Dallas Business Journal.

“Each local market of Bizjournals Network plans to offer two pages dedicated to PR Newswire content. One page will display press releases pertinent to the specific metropolitan area. The second page will provide a listing of every press release issued domestically by PR Newswire as well as access to an archive of PR Newswire press releases.

“Readers can also take advantage of PR Newswire’s PR Toolkit, a site that offers practical information on how to issue a news release, as well as day- to-day public relations tips and tactics. The PR Toolkit will be featured on all pages of Bizjournals sites that host PR Newswire content.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.