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The Value of Pitching Trade Reporters | Business Wire Blog

Business Wire

If it's not the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, or the Associated Press—or an interview on CNBC—it's common for corporate leadership to ask, "Why bother?" Everyone wants to be featured in the New York Times.

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New Challenges with Earned Media: PR Practitioners Insight in Report

Bianchi Biz Blog

In this blog – the first of two parts – we’ll share these findings and what implications they have for PR practitioners as we strive to secure earned media hits for our clients. It seems reporters are more frequently being asked to cover general assignments rather than the specialized beats we saw pre-COVID.

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How to Deal with Biased Reporters – Missy Hurley

Ethical Voices

I was pitching four reporters, three of which I knew pretty well. The fourth reporter I didn’t know as well, but I had worked with off and on. ” We continued to chat via text and answer the questions…normal reporter correspondence with the PR practitioner. I’ve had an exciting new title change.

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The top 10 most-read blog posts on Sword and the Script in 2023

Sword and the Script

Blogs were raging. That next spring I started this blog, largely as a means of professional development. I could read about what was happening, test it out on my blog, and apply what I had learned to my daily job. In 2023, the 14 th year of publishing, I published 50 blog posts. Social media was blossoming.

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5 PR Pitching Tips from a Former Journalist (Who Now Works for PR Firms)

Remote PR Jobs

During that time, I learned a lot about the important — and ideally, symbiotic — relationship between reporters and public relations professionals. While I still don’t know the secret to getting a reporter to politely reject a pitch (rather than flat out ignore it), I do know what it takes for an editor to say “yes” to a story idea.

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Pitches That Placed: How to Pitch Founders to Forbes

OnePitch

On this week’s Pitches That Placed, we’re highlighting a pitch that introduced a founder and landed an interview and coverage in Forbes. Let’s see why this pitch worked: Let’s take a look at the actual pitch that placed: . Here is a link to his recent interview on the ABC show Let’s Talk Live: [link].

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Journalism statistics: 7 media relations takeaways from the 2023 State of the Media Report by Cision

Sword and the Script

A survey of 3,000+ finds 75% of journalists say the top action any PR person can take is to understand a reporter’s target audience and what they find relevant; journalism statistics show reporters worry about accuracy, credibility and keeping pace amid more work and fewer resources Most PR professionals say media relations is getting harder.