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What’s Trending for 2023?

PRSay

Beyond words: adding multimedia to story pitches. As media relations professionals, the least we can do is ease their burden. According to Cision’s 2022 Global State of the Media Report , nearly half of all journalists receive up to 50 story pitches per week. ESG and your agency. Paid internships are essential.

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How 2,400 Journalists Use Social Media for Reporting [And Why PR Should Get Serious about Social]

Sword and the Script

Journalists say Twitter is the most valuable social media platform and they spend a lot of time there; if you want to improve media relations you should invest more time there too. Business efforts on social media tends come in two flavors. Most reporters are not receptive to pitches on Twitter.

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Being Smart and Strategic When Navigating the Current News Cycle

PRSay

At MediaSource, we’ve been speaking with our key media contacts to keep a pulse on what’s happening in newsrooms, and speaking regularly with our partners in journalism. To help your team, we’re sharing our approach, which is based on experience and feedback from our long-term media relationships.

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Met the Media: Ryan Gehm, Editor-in-chief at Truck & Off-Highway Engineering

Bianchi Biz Blog

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I’ve been with SAE International’s Media Group for nearly 23 years. And before that, I was an English and Journalism student at Bowling Green State University. – but we love her still), and spending time with my wonderful family, traveling as often as possible.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Stu Opperman, APR

Solo PR Pro

He developed a love of sports and print media at a young age, and set off to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in journalism. Stu didn’t know much about PR, but had a vague understanding of media relations, having been on the receiving end of pitches during his time producing talk shows.

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Meet the Media: John Hitch, Editor of Fleet Maintenance

Bianchi Biz Blog

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? Bill to help pay for a journalism degree from Kent State, which I received at the beautiful intersection of 2009 economic collapse and decline of conventional journalism. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? I used the G.I.

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Ivy Le’s Good Pitch Lands Ink in The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Bad Pitch Blog

We asked for good pitches and you listened. Consider: * BIO, the annual biotechnology industry convention, will be hosted by Atlanta in 2009. Regards, SIG FILE It did fit the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s op-ed calendar and the story ran in December of last year. We’ve gotten several and we’ll take more. Or, the newspaper.