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Back to School Media Pitches

PR for Anyone

Most kids went back to school this week and it’s a great time to position yourself as an expert and start pitching the media! Think outside of the box on what value you can provide related to back-to-school and pitch those stories starting today and for about the next 30 days. All kinds of things you’ve got sports starting.

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9 Blogs To Make You PR-Smart

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For a better understanding of the mechanics of PR, from creating media pitches that work to delivering a well-crafted results report, no one does it better than the Cision Blog. These posts help PR writers come up with more relevant story angles and media pitches and craft them in a way that is more likely to gain journalist attention.

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Why am I on your media list?

Prakkypedia

Several times a week, I receive emailed media releases or media pitches from a wide variety of firms with a wide variety of topics and “stories to sell”. It’s useful and instructive because I gain insights into how some PR practitioners pitch to media, how they structure their email pitches, how they write their media releases and more.

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Meet the Media – Dan Rosenheim

Landis PR

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? A 30-minute newscast may have a mere 18 minutes for news, once commercials, weather and sports are subtracted. SF Mayor Frank Jordan inviting two radio reporters on his doorstep in to interview him while he took a shower. What is the wackiest story you have covered?

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Media relations is thriving

Stephen Waddington

If you read an article about an individual or organisation in your favourite magazine or newspaper you’re likely to view it far more favourably than if you heard the information direct. In August 1994 The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, began putting news and sports articles online on its website.

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Ask Your PR Agency for a Story, Not a Press Release

Polaris

Local TV, radio, newspapers, and trade magazines all conducted interviews and ran stories in response to our ideas. #2 Instead of pitching media on the products, we distributed a “creativity kit” for spring break, a time of the year when parents, grandparents, and caregivers are searching for projects to entertain their kids.

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22 PR Rock Stars of the Future

Communications Conversations

He mastered media relations managing information for national outlets like ESPN and Sports Illustrated. Courtney is the director of Allen Hall PR our student run public relations agency at the University of Oregon and the president of the American Women in Sports Media chapter. Justin McClanahan, @MNrube. Thomas Reese.

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