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Writing For Journalism And Writing For PR: How They Differ

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

I was a journalism major, so most of my writing experience in college had a reporting angle. Whether it was through classes, writing for the school newspaper , or my personal blogs, my writing involved reporting facts, interviewing subjects, and taking down their quotes. What are you writing about?

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Building a perfect pitch? The story is in the data

Onclusive

Savvy communicators know that there is more to a perfect pitch than simply good writing, and media relations is not just about distributing these stories to the media. Understanding what to pitch, to whom and what’s working / not working requires access to relevant information.

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From 60 Years of Innovation to Writing and Editing a Release to Working with Global Reporters to Trade Show Pitching Tips: Business Wire’s Most Popular Blogs of Q4 2021 | Business Wire Blog

Business Wire

In the fourth quarter of 2021, Business Wire blog posts covering our 60 th anniversary, tips for editing press releases and catching common mistakes, and predictions for 2022 resonated most with readers.

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3 Ps to Enhance Your Pitch Writing

Stern + Associates

No matter how the industry changes, one key skill PR professionals need to know is pitch writing. Although you may be able to write a quality pitch by following a format, capturing the attention of a journalist whose inbox is saturated with similar content can be difficult. That you’re pitching, not writing it.

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Best practices for building a perfect pitch

Onclusive

Welcome back to our blog series about building a perfect pitch and nurturing your media relationships! This article is all about best practices for pitching—based on our customers’ collective experience and wisdom. As we mentioned last week, the key to creating a relevant and compelling pitch is knowing your audience.

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Have your AI Pitch my AI, We’ll Do Lunch

Flack's Revenge

If tools like ChatGPT can write pitches, articles and press releases, where does that leave us? Even when used by legitimate news outlets to write articles, errors can creep in. The Futurism blog recently outed the tech news site CNET for using AI to write erroneous articles. Hmmm… ChatGPT, writing PR content ….

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The top 10 most-read blog posts on Sword and the Script in 2023

Sword and the Script

Blogs were raging. That next spring I started this blog, largely as a means of professional development. I could read about what was happening, test it out on my blog, and apply what I had learned to my daily job. In 2023, the 14 th year of publishing, I published 50 blog posts. Social media was blossoming.

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