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How To Score A Great Local News Story: 5 PR Tips

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It’s also important to determine whether a story has its best chance of being published as a local media item, or if it warrants a full national media outreach. For example, survey results or breaking news at a national company will be pitched to national media, whereas region-specific news will be offered to local reporters.

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Public Relations Review

PR for Anyone

Be Newsworthy My biggest piece of advice when it comes to publicity is to start locally. Local media loves to cover stories about local businesses. Those are all topics that interest local media. An accountant can talk about new tax laws and what that means for local businesses. Make your business newsworthy.

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The Chicago Sun-Times’s Strategy May Save Newspapers

The Stalwart Blog

Regardless of your political leanings, this strategy of "don't be everything to everyone" could stand as a model for other newspapers to follow. . While understandable, this strategy will only accelerate the demise of newspapers. Moreover, it's the same strategy employed by television news.

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Back to School Media Pitches

PR for Anyone

I gave a bunch of examples in the video above (and the transcript below). This is the perfect example of newsjacking. So for the next thirty days, in terms of your local media, newspaper, radio, television, you have a great opportunity to pitch back-to-school stories. Transcript. It is the end of August.

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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

Unless a television channel needs TV footage or some personal presence is essential, traditional media do not dispatch reporters to check out the situation on the ground anymore. Whether you are the end reader or reporting major news for tomorrow’s newspaper doesn’t matter. This is just one example. There’s an earthquake?

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Campus Media 101: What You Need to Know to Reach Student Journalists and Their Audiences

Beyond PR

The college newspaper. Campus Newspapers: The Digital Revolution Is (Also) Here. Let’s consider the campus newspaper in more depth. Campus newspapers all across the country are still being tasked with curating and creating content for the campus community on the whole; now, the format is split between website and print editions.

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The State of the News Media 2015

Journalistics

The legacy news industry – traditional newspapers and magazines – have made little progress securing digital ad revenue. Local television is seeing an uptick in viewership, particularly around the evening news. Early evening and local morning news viewership is also up for a second year in a row.