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Increasing Your Media Coverage Through Storytelling

PRSay

As communicators, we work hard to engage with reporters and editors to make them aware of the great work our clients are doing — but we still understand why bosses make these urgent requests. Reporters choose to cover the story because it’s important, thus enhancing the organization’s reputation. Find your organization’s best stories.

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PRSA Introduces Innovative Program to Guide Journalists Transitioning Into PR and Communications

PRSay

Through the years, the PR and comms fields have been attractive landing spots for journalists with their writing and storytelling skills and media prowess. They both are storytellers. Sherry, before your agency career, you worked as a reporter for trade publications as well as in local NYC TV news.

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Behind the Headlines With Stuart Pfeifer

Cision

A former reporter for The Los Angeles Times, Stuart recently joined public relations company Sitrick & Co. I wanted to be a reporter for as long as I can remember. I was fortunate enough to live my dream for more than 25 years and report on some amazing stories. But the newspaper climate has changed.

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What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living

Sword and the Script

More respondents (38%) say the comms function reports to the CEO, versus 35% that say they report to the CMO. In the B2B technology world, which is the lenses through which I example things, I’ve found PR usually reports to marketing – but supports the whole business – when a company is small or young. 57) “Change consultant.”.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Bernadette Adams Davis

Solo PR Pro

She began her career as an aspiring newspaper reporter, securing an internship at the Atlanta Journal Constitution before becoming a daily reporter in Greenville, South Carolina, not far from her hometown. Bernadette Adams Davis pretty much always knew she wanted to work in the media industry. Pivoting from journalism to PR.

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Behind the Headlines With Neil McAllister

Cision

Read Cision’s free “State of the Media 2016 Report!” But honestly, I had just left my previous gig as a reporter, and I was looking for something new. I’ve written everything from daily news reports, to feature-length articles, to opinion and editorial pieces, to product reviews, to interviews and profiles and so on.

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USA Today’s Tips for Pitching to Get News Coverage

Cision

Last night, Help A Reporter Out (HARO ) brought four major USA Today leaders – Jeff Dionise, Beryl Love , Patty Michalski and Susan Page – together at an invite-only event in downtown Washington, D.C. Once you’ve established that, then pitch a reporter, he continues. Think about what an editor or reporter would do.

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