ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 28, 2020

On the agency side, it’s sometimes because the team overpromises in their eagerness to win a new client. We’re living through COVID-19 and a presidential election year, and both eat up a huge amount of media bandwidth. Media relations deals with the news environment, which is by definition unpredictable. It’s PR, not ER.

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Cision

MARCH 1, 2016

With more and more people pitching reporters every day, your pitches may be falling under the radar. You need to adjust your tactics and learn “ The New Rules of Media Pitching.” ” Want to get all of Michael Smart’s pitching tips? How do you recommend pitching a service like an app?

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The NYC PR Innovators meetup hosted a session on The Art (and Science) of the PR Pitch at District CoWork last week, where I participated as a panelist. Also, any forum dedicated to improving pitching is a great one, in my book. Also, any forum dedicated to improving pitching is a great one, in my book.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 11, 2018

Seeing a client’s interview in a key publication is still a quintessential public relations win, so PR pros spend a lot of time perfecting media pitching. But once we get a “yes” to a pitch or interview request, it’s no time to sit back and relax. PR leverage and amplification.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The PRCA was started by a group of CIPR members in 1969 who wanted to create an organisation to address the specific needs of agency owners. None of the top 20 UK agencies participated in the recent PRWeek pay gap study. Why is public relations conflated with media relations? Another history lesson.

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Konnect Agency

MARCH 15, 2021

As public relations professionals, we sometimes know the sinking feeling of sending out countless pitches and getting no responses. You have carefully crafted a media list, identified top media targets, dotted your I’s, and crossed your T’s. Tailoring Your Pitches to Each Writer.

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Victorious PR

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the Key Aspects of Blockchain PR is Media Relations The best PR agencies have established relationships with crypto journalists and influencers, which can help brands gain media coverage and generate buzz. The post Essential Role of PR in Crypto & Blockchain appeared first on Victorious PR.

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Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Media Relations One of the most important aspects of public relations for real estate companies is in coordination with the media. A successful media relations strategy includes developing relationships with key journalists, responding to inquiries and criticism, and proactively pitching stories.

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Cision

APRIL 14, 2017

This past January, Marian Salzman, CEO of Havas PR North America, published her latest book, Agile PR. The book gives insight into how to craft expert messages for a hyper-connected, always- on world. Then I wrote a book on first jobs to avoid having to have one, and then began writing features for magazines.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

It can be time-consuming to plan media outreach for local and national networks, cable news, podcasts, streaming television, public radio, and social-only video; however, a satellite media tour (SMT) can help. The first step to not breaking the bank is understanding what factors go into making a media tour. Your Pitch Team.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 10, 2017

A Guest Post by Maris Callahan, Director of Public Relations, Donuts Inc. There’s nothing like a grueling weekend spent unsuccessfully following up on pitches for coverage of a client’s innovative, disruptive, and ground-breaking new technology release to make you start daydreaming of starting your own firm. agency, media and.

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Cision

AUGUST 4, 2016

Today, there are a variety of ways to reach journalists, including email, social media, telephone and more. But if you’re pitching a mediocre story, you won’t find any success – no matter which medium you use. What do you hope to accomplish in your new role as director of media relations at ABB? What has stayed the same?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 31, 2015

Three of the responses ignored the questions and pitched interviews instead – an absent a strong point of view. The one respondent that answered the actual questions, subsequently looked me up online and sent the same pitch to a personal email account. Good Pitches have a Long Shelf Life. You don’t need to write a book.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Journalists Love Twitter, and if Your Job is Media Relations, You Should too. 28 Plus Public Relations Resources to Brush up and Stay Sharp in Comms. A carefully curated list of public relations resources like newsletters, blogs, podcasts, trades and books for staying up to speed in communications and PR.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Finish this sentence: If I am not reporting, I am … Most likely reading children’s books to my 2-year-old daughter or catching a flight to the next trade show I’m covering. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Know your audience. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Stern + Associates

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Marketing Automates Key Functions Sales used to have to spend lots of time on tasks like sending emails, finding contact info, creating collateral, and booking events. Sharing metrics helps sales forecast accurately, optimize pitches and increase productivity. Alignment between the sales and marketing teams results in better outcomes.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

However, when times are busy, many may opt to send a blanket pitch to all their contacts in the hopes that someone bites. We are in an age where our industry is changing rapidly, so it’s more important than ever to take advantage of our modern technology to send customized, targeted and relevant pitches to our media contacts.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

PR practitioners use a variety of methods to get their message out, including press releases, media relations, social media, and more. What are some examples of public relations? Media relations: This involves building relationships with journalists and getting media coverage for an organization or individual.

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Cision

AUGUST 2, 2016

You’ve helped secure placements for your clients in a variety of media. What’s your secret to media relations success? You need to be aware of the media’s needs and be able to support in filling that need effectively. My favorite social media platform is…Instagram, although Snapchat is gaining fast. Internships!

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Media Relations is a core part of PR and can be one of the trickiest. She gets calls from big agencies all the time because their teams can’t book segments like she can. It is, after all, called Media Relations. It is, after all, called Media Relations. What’s the secret?

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Sword and the Script

MAY 17, 2016

If your answer involves turning to Google, then you’re not unlike the 250 or so reporters the agency Wasabi Publicity recently surveyed. Social Media. The survey matches my own experience and I believe represents a substantial evolution to the classic corporate media relations program. Breaking news. Press releases.

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Cision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Erik Wheater, account executive at Burns360, details his transition from a five-year career in television news to the PR agency life. In this interview, Erik discusses moving from one media world to the next. Journalism has also influenced my career in terms of the contacts I developed while working in news media.

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Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

PR Builds Visibility With a trusted public relations team, your brand will have more visibility and personality to build that trust with others. PR professionals use various tactics, such as media relations, crisis communication, and events, to shape and communicate the organization’s message and image to the public.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 8, 2017

It’s the media pitch met with silence. Even the best media relations pros – with well-researched pitches – face the dilemma of no response one time or another. Should you pitch a different contact at the same pub? Do you write a new pitch all together? Did the reporter get the email?

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Flack's Revenge

MAY 12, 2016

She explained the system, which turns the traditional model of media relations on its head. Rather than assume that media are the quarry, to be hounded by PR, Babbler envisions that press will gladly opt in and connect with brand content online. Because media don’t all want to same content or to be pitched the same way.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 31, 2016

That’s okay in my book; it’s silly to be sensitive about it or to take offense when people ask if you created that cute TV ad. When it comes to the media relations piece of communications, having the right journalist contacts is useful. PR is about who you know. Not really, or at least not entirely.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 The announcement pitches this as enabling “PR agencies to sell robust guaranteed placement packages to their clients.” Notified adds coverage books.

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Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2015

At my first agency job in New York, I worked alongside a media relations specialist who wanted each of his annual coverage reports to be as thick as a phone book. She not only disagreed, she double-downed – forging ahead with the event and all but guaranteeing national media attendance at it.

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5W PR

AUGUST 27, 2020

Delivering stores to radio, television, and online audiences through live coverage, SMT has become an important public relations strategy that helps an audience to have a behind-the-scenes understanding of a brand. Brief tweets, media alerts, and phone pitches should do the job of convincing the editorial decision-makers.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

From that, I wrote a book for him. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Not doing any real (or enough) research of the people and publications that could best fit the information they are pitching. Meet the Media: Vesna Brajkovic, Managing Editor of Heavy Duty Trucking & TruckingInfo.com.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

The author of a newly published book on the rise of activist investors — Barbarians in the Boardroom – he provides this example: “Hedge fund Starboard Value was lampooned on every late-night talk show in September 2014 over its 296-page detailed critique of the restaurant chain Olive Garden and its parent company, Darden. 3) Pitching?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

We have a booth booked!” Try to network with your peers, with communications professionals and PR agency teams who have logged experience at CES to get some insight. Reach out to media and influencers with whom you already have good relationships. But we’re already registered! it will be making at the show … yes, right now.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For yet others, it’s as an agency owner and leader in the Twin Cities. But, from most accounts I’ve heard, Paul is one of a dwindling cadre of veteran agency leaders that is universally respected (people like Lynn Casey and Jorg Pierach also come to mind). Point being, many of us know Paul Maccabee.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 18, 2017

I was amused at how agencies were sending me press releases that were of no interest to me. Cision , the King Kong of media relations directories, swells with 1.6 million media contacts (including 300,000 digital influencers) in its searchable database. First, we start with.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

All the sessions were recorded, including the panel I participated on for media relations. PR Week published a story about a new vendor out of Tel Aviv that’s has launched what it pitches as a CRM for PR. This seems to give you access to your media list right from an email. 1) Israeli vendor builds CRM tool for PR.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 18, 2019

I think everyone has a skill that best suits them; for me that’s media relations. You also do a ton of media relations-TV work in town. And, what’s the one tip you’d give other PR/media relations folks for getting their clients more TV appearances? Who are some of your clients?

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Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

PR professionals often reach out to journalists and other media representatives with information or news about their clients or organizations that they believe would interest them and their audience. Otherwise known as “pitching,” the goal is to secure media coverage for the client or organization. We’re here to help!

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