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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. I didn’t understand how to craft a good pitch and how to pitch a story. PR professionals and journalists have very similar skills.

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Increasing Your Media Coverage Through Storytelling

PRSay

As communicators, we have long relied on earned media or public relations — usually in the form of media relations — to place our clients’ names on the internet, on TV, in print and on the radio. In today’s media environment, pitching reporters and editors has become a lost art. Find your organization’s best stories.

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Can Print Still Flourish in The Age of Digital? An Interview with Star Tribune Magazine’s Sue Campbell

MaccaPR

Has digital media – from Huffington Post , Google News and BuzzFeed to Kindle e-books, Twitter and (God help us) more than 8 million blogs – finally vanquished Print? Recent headlines provide brutal evidence: Condé Nast announced last December it was shutting down the print version of Self magazine to go online-only. Long Live Print”!

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USA Today’s Tips for Pitching to Get News Coverage

Cision

Today, USA Today ranks first in combined print and digital circulation, underlying the importance of this digital transformation for newsrooms around the world. Once you’ve established that, then pitch a reporter, he continues. “Visual storytelling isn’t built on pretty pictures, but on information and information gathering.”

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Behind the Headlines With Rich Oppel

Cision

Before you pitch a journalist, you must think about how your story adds value for your audience. It’s all storytelling. We define media very broadly, from traditional print media to the gossipmonger with a following on social media. What are some of the biggest pitching mistakes communication professionals make?

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Get a Big Picture of the PR Landscape with these Notes from 10 Industry Surveys

Sword and the Script

It could be a way to cut through the clutter since reporters are deluged with pitches. Keep in mind, the story you are pitching has to actually be worthy of an exclusive. All the basic advice still applies (timeliness, relevancy and newsworthiness). Don’t dangle “exclusive” for a mediocre idea. Give our services a try.

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PR Tips for Finding the Right Story to Build Your Beauty Biz

Mora Communications

There are a number of target markets within the field, which offers a number of different story and pitch ideas. Effective PR is effective storytelling. Print coverage is still crucial. Once you’re in magazines and newspapers, you can use social media and the internet to ramp up interest in your product.