Ishmael's Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

That’s why I was intrigued when I heard that Muck Rack (in cooperation MDC Partners) surveyed a cross section of journalists — newspapers, magazines, trade publications, etc. — to learn how they like to be pitched. Regarding ideal pitch length —. Reuben didn’t write a book on the topic). Do your homework.

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PR for Anyone

MARCH 31, 2020

David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies, VC strategic partner, and bestselling author of 10 books, including "The New Rules of Marketing & PR." His eleven books have sold close to a million copies in 30 languages from Albanian to Vietnamese. Reporters are searching for experts.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I’ve known Lin Pophal for years through her work as a writer for eContent , HR Executive , and others; have pitched her client stories and my own thought leadership topics (I’m in her eContent story on content curation tools ). I was, of course, thrilled to be in it and eager to read Lin Pophal’s book.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

As special publications editor for The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire (the fifth oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S.), Back when I was a newspaper reporter, I wrote a series of articles about an embattled high school principal accused of misconduct, including secretly altering the grades of several students.

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PRSay

APRIL 19, 2021

There are many benefits to dividing it up this way, but the biggest is so you can earn a valuable link to your keyword-focused content on the website from a high domain authority site, such as a newspaper or magazine. You’ll see Spin Sucks is on the first page of results — and that we’ve encouraged others to write about it.

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

Your brand may have a good story, but if you’re not catching journalists’ attention with your pitch, it won’t get covered. Journalist Sharon Ward Keeble stresses the importance of providing value and detail when pitching your story. What is the most memorable pitch you’ve received? How did you get your start in journalism?

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Solo PR Pro

JULY 5, 2022

reviewing all the news alerts I have set up for my clients and their industry competitors and fielding urgent emails before devoting the rest of the morning to writing and other client work. I write or pitch media in the mornings, so I am only available beginning at noon daily. if I can help it. Michelle Kane, VoiceMatters, LLC.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Several months after I left my job at my hometown newspaper, The Vindicator , I got some texts from friends who still worked there with some ominous-sounding news. This month, June, marks seven years working full-time for local newspapers. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? I worked there for about 4.5

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For three years I worked at The Oregonian —a top 25 newspaper. Having been on the “inside”, and now working in a PR role, I feel I am better prepared to successfully pitch a story on behalf of my clients. press releases, pitches, etc.). The best way is to write a traditional-styled “story” (i.e.

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Cision

JANUARY 28, 2016

But the newspaper climate has changed. where I could learn from Mike Sitrick, the guy who wrote the book on strategic and crisis PR, I jumped at it. I’m confident that the skills I developed in more than two decades as a newspaper reporter will serve our clients well. And there is a lot of writing in PR.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I also write about mobility and transportation topics, including pedestrian safety. If a story topic interests me, I expect I will report and write a better story. I got my start at my high school newspaper and was the editor of my college newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum at West Virginia University.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

As managing editor of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine and TruckingInfo.com, she writes trucking news and features, manages e-newsletters and social media, coordinates magazine production, and helps to develop content for events and multimedia projects. Once I graduated, I had to make the choice: newspapers or trade pubs. Have a reason.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

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. The Daily Telegraph was the first UK national newspaper to go online in November the same year.

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PRSay

JUNE 18, 2019

How do you decide on updates to the book, and how frequently do you amend the online version? What is the thought process at the AP behind making changes to longstanding style rules (like the change to writing out state names in datelines, for example)? Do you receive a lot of requests for additions and updates?

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PRSay

JULY 31, 2019

Woodward, who is an associate editor at The Washington Post , a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of 19 books, will deliver the opening keynote address at PRSA’s 2019 International Conference in San Diego on Oct. Do a comprehensive look at what you’re trying to write about. Do it personally.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The writing had been on the wall for years, but it was still a shock to people in the industry because Oshawa is where the Canadian automotive industry was born. All great stories make clear why whatever you’re writing about matters to the audience. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I’ve been a participant or contributor to various pieces of buff-book hijinks over the years, like the first Battle of the Beaters, which became a sort of series for Car and Driver. I hadn’t been part of the high-school newspaper, and I thought that good writing was just something you needed to have in whatever field you chose.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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? In the words of Ruth Jamieson’s new book on the indie mag explosion, “Print Is Dead. Long Live Print”! We are always pitchable by PR people.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 29, 2016

Amid “cheesy graphics” and a sloppy effort to render the comic book exclamations – “Pow!” Years later, as a college student at Indiana University, he developed a course on comic books. They are using my money to teach our kids comic books?!”. ” “Zap!” ” and “Wham!”

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PR Fuel

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

So how can you ensure that more journalists read — and accept — your press releases and PR pitches? Think of your media list as a living, breathing address book in the 21st century. Newspapers? Most newspapers and digital news sites include author names near the top of the story. It starts with a media list.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 22, 2018

“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. You craft the perfect pitch and reach out to the influencers who have served you well in the past — as well as some new ones who cover your space and seem like a good fit for your audience. Just measure it in inches.” ” — Andy Warhol.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The industry has a wholly unrealistic expectation that graduates should be oven ready, and able to immediately undertake a stakeholder audit, write a blog, or pitch media. We’d compile clipping books for clients at the end of each month. Why are public relations degrees so poorly regarded by practice?

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MaccaPR

APRIL 18, 2017

Now that I’ve morphed from journalist to public relations guy, I’m aware of how vital it is to target precisely the right reporter – so you avoid becoming the PR pro who pitches the launch of a new Caramel Coconut Cherry ice cream flavor to a reporter who is dedicated to covering Islamic fundamentalism in Qatar.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

When I was a teenager, something like 13-14 years old, I was publishing a neighborhood newspaper on a typewriting machine. Meanwhile, I was also learning the news I was writing. One day, a big American petroleum company came, and they invited me for a pitch in public relations. So, what made you write this book?

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PR Fuel

JULY 10, 2018

Writing isn’t everyone’s strong suit. If it isn’t yours, there are plenty of services out there that will take over the odious task of press release writing for you so you can get back to doing what you do best – publicizing your company. You must be brutally impartial when you answer: would you read your press release in a newspaper?

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Flack's Revenge

JULY 25, 2014

I had the great pleasure of writing for PR Conversations again last week, after Judy Gombita graciously agreed to r un with my post (the third one I have written for them). certain members of the media) seem to assume it is just about pitch spam and hype. I appreciated the thoughtful comments on my post.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

ChatGPT seems to miss emerging themes if there isn’t a wide body of writing already on a topic. Overall, being successful in PR requires a variety of skills, including strong writing and communication skills, organizational skills, strategic thinking, adaptability, creativity, and media relations skills.”.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

His words drove home the tremendous responsibility I had as someone who never served in uniform, speaking and writing on behalf of those who did. For PR professionals, this emerging reality means that we can’t only sell the significance of our pitch. My guiltiest pleasure is…listening to movie scores while writing.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It was a good pitch. After several unsuccessful attempts, I re-worked my pitch into a blog post and published it on the company blog. This new trend some were calling content marketing had the hallmarks of a soft and subtle pitch. Re-write white papers as long form contributed articles. The same is true in print.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2015

In my new book, Sticky Branding , I describe this approach as creating a “First Choice Advantage” for your brand. He’s written two bestselling books, Six Pixels of Separation and Ctrl Alt Delete. Mitch blogs seven days a week, podcasts weekly, and writes for a number of newspapers and magazines.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Page three of the FT, an hour on Sky News, wall-to-wall ITN coverage, Today, the World Service and the front or inside front pages of many of the world’s leading newspapers. Ditto the number of PR companies that have SEO specialists on their books. How many PRs write blogs and truly understand how to optimise them for Search?

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2017

At my first agency job, the majority of my day was spent faxing press releases to media outlets, and taping newspaper and magazine articles into giant “clip books” while calculating the number of estimated reader impressions achieved. I remember asking myself, “Does the client even look at these clip books?

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PR Fuel

JUNE 26, 2018

There are many different formats you can use when writing your press release. Open up any magazine, blog, trade journal, or newspaper, and you’ll likely be able to find at least one story that’s written as a list. List headlines quickly capture the essence of the story, and they’re easy to write.

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Mark My Words

MARCH 9, 2021

The arrival of rapidly growing global streaming services like Netflix and Spotify has dramatically altered the power structure of the world’s media industry, with national TV, radio and newspapers competing with Spotify’s 345 million monthly users and Netflix 204 million global subscribers. She wrote the rule book of the modern royal.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

Washington’s not really unique – it’s like any town with a myriad of local stories,” writes Christine. “So Regularly assess whether they and the publication are still covering the topics you’re pitching them on. Summing up the panelists’ remarks, Christine writes that journalists must “become familiar with audio and video.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

We’ll never forget the panic in the PR world as tens of thousands of journalists (aka our PR pitch targets) at newspapers, TV stations and magazines were laid off. A former Edelman PR executive published a 300-page book. Think of what you’re asking for,” Petersen writes in her post. Its title: “Trust Me, PR Is Dead.”.

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Bad Pitch Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Here is a decent pitch (DP) from RLM pr. We scanned those pages for weeks before writing this. For information or b-roll, write to Some Shmuck, VP of RLM Public Relations 212 741-5106 x14 or someshmuck@rlmPR.com. Clinton’s staff to write something, not a bad pull. But then I remembered one. I can share. He even got Sen.

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