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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 Skills

PR for Anyone

Getting local media coverage makes you a star in your community. Here are some tips to create newsworthy story ideas: 1) Take a national trend or study and show how it relates to the local market (Trulia, Inman, Realtor.com and other regularly do studies and research). This is what you use to attract and pitch the media.

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In Memoriam: Joe S. Epley, APR, Fellow PRSA

PRSay

The full-service firm represented a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to local nonprofits, many of them clients for more than two decades. he worked as a television news reporter and editor in Asheville and Charlotte before transitioning into a PR career. Epley founded Epley Associates, Inc., were lifelong.

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Pitch the Media

PR for Anyone

My dear friend and colleague, Jeff, an award winning television news reporter, told me his favorite email he ever got was “your blue eyes look so great on camera.” Journalists, particularly television stations are territorial and will often ask you for an exclusive. ” He still gushes about that. The answer is, “No.”

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Getting the Yes When Pitching the Media

PR for Anyone

In fact, back in the day there were writer and editors for television reporters and anchors and now, it’s quite often that person doing everything. One of my early television appearances was when I tweeted at a journalist at my local FOX station saying how much I loved the story she just ran. Get to the point.

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Digital Ethnography for PR, Part 4: Example Study

Shift Communications

Digital ethnography is a relatively new field of study which promises, when done well, to deepen the relationship between communicators and their audiences by developing and understanding context. In this series, we’ll examine digital ethnography – a field of study pioneered by our colleagues at NATIONAL Public Relations.

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5 Challenges to Effective Communication

Cision

Recently, a Pew Research Center study similarly concluded that far fewer people have experience in the digital economy than you might think. One of the most shocking revelations from the Pew study is how few people understand the lexicon of the digital economy. 1 television program on TV (“The Big Bang Theory”) averages 8.8