PR Insiders

MAY 7, 2021

A store advertises its Memorial Day sale with a mammoth two-page newspaper spread and the store’s foot traffic either goes up or it doesn’t. PR is about building your brand and your authority over time. When we talk about the media, we think of newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio. Case closed. PR doesn’t work that way. .

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

I assign articles to our in-house and freelance staff, work with our graphic artist for our print layout and designs, and work with our sales and management team to ensure our content meets our editorial mission and help with sales. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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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? Want to get more media coverage?

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Cision

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These SMB (small and mid-sized businesses) and mid-market companies are in a unique situation when it comes to brand outreach and consumer attraction. On the one hand, they can and should be pushing niche interest and audiences in their brand-sphere, as the likelihood of pickup will be stronger with a local connection.

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Media monitoring involves systematically tracking and analyzing media content (such as news articles, social media posts, and broadcast segments) related to a specific brand, industry, or topic. Media monitoring tools scan various sources (print, online, social media, TV, radio) for mentions of specific keywords or brands.

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Cision

MAY 3, 2016

Journalists can see right through your mass emails – and they’ll ignore you if they suspect you aren’t tailoring your pitches. Karen Paff, senior vice president at Ogilvy Public Relations, recommends doing your research and learning as much as you can about the journalists you target before you pitch them your story.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

Before you pitch a journalist, you must think about how your story adds value for your audience. Rich Oppel, senior advisor for media strategy and management at Crosswind Media & Public Relations, says brands will successfully land media coverage when they can combine their needs with the needs of journalists and their readers.

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Landis PR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

During a session featuring a panel of newspaper editors, one award-winning editor matter-of-factly stated, “PR people and reporters should have an adversarial relationship.” . Personalize pitches to each reporter/editor. . Several years ago, I attended a conference that was geared to both reporters and public relations professionals.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2022

My first article on the project also holds a special place in my memory as it was the first big article I wrote after I started in B2B journalism in which I had come up with the idea and it wound up being the cover story for a print issue. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Beyond PR

MARCH 22, 2018

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. Understand which influencers are having the most impact on your brand. Maybe you got some decent pick up and had your story featured in an article.

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Mora Communications

JANUARY 3, 2018

A gradual sustained approach can successfully establish a business, expert or a brand. . A newspaper story can lead to a magazine piece, which can lead to a radio interview, which in time could very well lead to national TV coverage. . Monthly publications are on a different schedule than daily newspapers. Media begets media.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

And while the degree of difficulty varies from brand to brand, the secret to securing editorial is NOT a media release. Yet sometimes these elements are difficult to find in brand marketing—or even non-existent. Local TV, radio, newspapers, and trade magazines all conducted interviews and ran stories in response to our ideas. #2

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Apart from the usual layoffs, cost reduction, and restructuring, we have seen newspapers and magazines getting thinner, TV stations cutting back on programming, and several publications and channels are on the block. Pitching journalists via phone calls, e-mails, and SMS’ are not the only ways of securing media coverage anymore.

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Mora Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2017

There are a number of target markets within the field, which offers a number of different story and pitch ideas. If this is your field, start by defining your image, your brand and your target market. Print coverage is still crucial. One might be seasonal., Next, discover your stories.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? 84 percent focus on creating content for audiences versus brand. 100, 500, maybe 1,000? percent close rate.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

As PR pros, we’re all about captivating crafting content that resonates with target audiences, fuels brand loyalty, and drives results. Print media (magazine) consumption rose in 2023 , and this trend should continue in 2024, according to a study by Pew Research Center (via MediaPost).

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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

Regularly assess whether they and the publication are still covering the topics you’re pitching them on. While you shouldn’t pitch them right now, keep them on your reading list and periodically circle back to see if their coverage area has expanded. Kavitha noted to up-and-coming journalists that interning at a print job is critical.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 9, 2017

As a kid, my parents took me to the show, and I still remember the branded whiz-bang flashlight they purchase for me – a rare indulgence. Working for a brand with such deep roots in PR history wasn’t lost on me then – and certainly isn’t lost me now. I seem to remember having both print and broadcast media in attendance.

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Bad Pitch Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I am writing to you from 35,000 feet where American and something badly branded as Gogo Inflight has granted me 12 buck access to the Internet. Finally: Who will we be pitching? Print outlets have been dying, okay let''s call it changing, for a while. Let''s all learn from print''s fall from grace. If you''re (still?!?)

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

The PR team might pitch some less tailored info about the company for general brand visibility ahead of a new product announcement or a big funding announcement. As opposed to paying for advertising, PR pros earn media coverage by pitching stories reporters want to write, and readers want to see.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 5, 2019

Tailored pitches have always been the key to success in media relations. Adding SEO and social data to pitches adds huge value for time pressed journalists. The 2019 Cision Global State of the Media Report contains useful insights for media relations practitioners seeking to cut through with their pitches.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A study by a marketing analytics firm found “On average, brands that increased media investment [during a recession] realized roughly a 17 percent growth in incremental sales, and more than half saw subsequent improvements in year-over-year ROIs over a two-year period during the recession.”. Source: 3 Studies Branding and Marketing ).

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

However, when it comes to connecting with a producer or editor who is pitched hundreds of times in a single day, sometimes it pays to break the rules. However, if a brand is already well-known in the space and the product launch or other news has very broad appeal, going out broadly to press may be the best strategy.

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Cision

MARCH 24, 2017

Austin & Williams, the advertising, branding and digital marketing agency has recently tapped Jody Fisher, a NYC PR veteran, to head up its new in- house PR practice. If you find the compelling human story in what you’re pitching, you’ll be successful. What do you think is the biggest PR challenge facing brands today?

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PR Fuel

JANUARY 17, 2022

Press releases lend authenticity to your brand, helping you build a loyal customer following over time. Where your target audience is local, find a PR distribution service that targets distribution by location to local TV, radio, and print media houses. But for this to happen, you need a working PR distribution strategy.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The newspaper industry learned this the hard way. In the newspaper business, it’s common to print your issues on something called “broadsheets,” which are 22-inch sheets of paper. In 1712, the British government imposed a tax on newspapers based on the number of pages that they published. Hurray, me.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 1, 2016

It was totally unique – a perfect vehicle for CEO branding and hook for a reporter focused on culture. While the initial pitch didn’t result in an immediate story, it established a relationship – and sometimes that is what will get clients into some of the highest profile industry stories. I mean, how many companies offer this?

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

With such a huge chunk of the audience online, it becomes increasingly important to reach them outside of the traditional ways of communicating (newspapers/magazines/TV/radio). A quick crisp e-mail with images or infographic has a better chance of catching the media’s fancy than long pitch notes or press releases. Twitter chats.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

With print becoming less important to audiences, telling stories in more visual ways is critical – and public relations professionals can help. Send More Multimedia in PR Pitches. Both Choi and Forsythe would consider using infographics or videos provided by brands, as long as they meet journalism quality standards.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

You should be able to show examples of stories you pitched and placed, or campaigns you worked on and generated results for. You need to be able to demonstrate you are proficient in using these tools because clients and organizations are looking for employees who can help manage their brand voices across these channels.

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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. Trust in journalists ranks at 89% indicating that we place a value in the individual source of news rather than the media brand.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

You can also use this dictionary as a lead tool, if you’re a marketing exec who wants to hire a team of Pulitzer Prize-winning writers for your brand’s blog. You’ll need to speak their language to recruit them, and veteran newspaper reporters don’t necessarily know what “ map against your KPIs ” means.

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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. Brands used to have a controlling influence on information about their products.

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