ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As a PR pro , you are constantly communicating with reporters, whether it be pitching, coordinating interviews, or interacting on social media. You’ve drafted the perfect pitch, sent it to relevant targets, and now you’ve secured a media interview. Your job is done, right?

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5W PR

AUGUST 23, 2023

Public relations specialist PR specialists develop and implement communication strategies to promote and protect client or organizational reputation. They create press releases , media pitches, and coordinate interviews to generate positive media coverage.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Based on our 30+ years of PR experience, many of those supporting automotive clients at CES, we’ve identified several key media relations facts, challenges your company could face and the opportunities that could potentially surround them: Even with millions of square feet of CES exhibit space, it goes fast. domestic and 35.5%

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This just in: media relations is getting tougher. Consider the following: Demand for media attention is high: Most top-tier writers now receive 100, 250 or 500 pitches a week for 5 story spots. Media is outnumbered: PR Pros now outnumber journalists by a factor of 6 to 1. Pitch early–literally!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Yet corporate PR officers also fall victim to inflated or impractical expectations when their internal clients don’t understand what’s possible. We’re living through COVID-19 and a presidential election year, and both eat up a huge amount of media bandwidth. And earned media isn’t magic. Congrats, you got a big story!

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 21, 2022

As such, it’s important for exhibitors – especially the vehicle technology providers and automotive mobility suppliers we serve – to fully understand the media landscape of this massive event to ensure success, set realistic targets and appropriately manage executive expectations about media attention you may or may not garner at the show.

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Mobile Technology Automotive Interviews 114

OnePitch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On this month’s profile, we are talking with Jennifer Reinhard , Vice President/Media Group Manager in Ketchum ’s Earned Media Specialty Group (EMSG). She has experience in corporate reputation management and crafting earned media stories. Read below for the entire interview with Jen: . And he did beautifully.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 20, 2015

Story creation: Of the journalists interviewed, all agreed that social media is a powerful tool to uncover potential leads. Comparable to press releases and corporate websites, reporters perceive social media to be a useful source of information. Pitching Via Twitter. Don’t pitch them right away.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And there are certain B2B tech sectors, like cybersecurity, where reactive media pitching is often a large and important program component. ” Reactive media pitching should not be the centerpiece of a good PR program; however, it can help capitalize on opportunities that generate tangible results and positive buzz.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I’ll never forget driving to Petersen Publishing Company some 50 miles from my home and pitching three articles to Lee Kelley, editorial director at the new Hot Rod Specialty Publications Group. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? He offered me a job as feature editor on the spot. Mostly, though, I’m writing.

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Journalism Automotive Interviews Writing 116

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. What are some examples of public relations?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s important for exhibitors – especially the automotive suppliers and vehicle technology providers we serve – to fully understand the media landscape of this massive event to ensure success, and to set realistic targets and appropriately manage executive level expectations about media attention.

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Automotive Interviews Technology Mobile 92

Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

In an ideal world, the best pitch, the best ideas presented, would win. Media interviews or media coverage would depend solely upon the quality or novelty of the pitch. Though they might like to, most journalists don’t have time to sift through all the pitches they get … or to vet new, unproven sources.

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Automotive B2B Pitching Agency 78

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 10, 2013

We love following up with them after pitching an interview/story idea. How about we stop doing all this, and maybe engage with them differently , keeping both the media and PR professionals happy? “Now that we have social media, how about replacing that with a Twitter pitch?”

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Pitching Twitter Social Media Agency 88

Landis PR

MARCH 18, 2024

By Andie Davis Photo courtesy of Pixabay There are many great benefits that come from media training, and not just for media interviews. If you get media interview requests, you will want experienced media trainers to guide you through the ins and outs (and the dos and don’ts) of being a great interviewee.

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Media Training Training Media Interviews 59

Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Like fluffy yellow chicks marching in line after their mama, many companies are stuck in push marketing tactics of the past, favoring carefully crafted, conservative external messaging and expecting their executives to rigidly follow corporate directives when it comes to having (or not having) a digital voice. “It’s too risky!”

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

Propel is an all-in-one PR platform with media contacts, email distribution and monitoring. The company caught my eye when it said it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze a reporter’s pitching preferences. The idea is helping PR understand how reporters prefer to be pitched and improve your chances of coverage.

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Software Pitching Measurement Enterprise 89

Sword and the Script

MAY 3, 2022

While many mistake PR with just “media relations” or worse with “press release” the fact is the function does overlap with many other activities in business. Muck Rack helps to connect pitches to coverage. Muck Rack released a feature that allows customers to connect mentions earned to pitch. fewer pitches in Q1 2022.

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Software Study Pitching Analysis 100

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 16, 2018

Misguided media relations strategy. Agency teams should take the time to explain, based on personal experience and expertise, why a story will or won’t work and where possible, how to take a bland or unworkable pitch and improve it. Lack of preparation for a media interview.

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Skype Interviews Crisis Communications Crisis 170

Sword and the Script

MAY 2, 2017

Her corporate gigs tended to be with large companies of the international variety – Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent for example. There is no doubt in my mind that when I started in PR – and especially when I was in media relations – I stayed completely in my own silo. I had a fax machine, a phone and FedEx when I started pitching.

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Solo PR Pro

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So why ask your PR team to guarantee media results? To guarantee timing of a bylined article placement or published article after an interview? So why expect your PR person to talk with a reporter and tell them to not print that statement you made to them in an interview? Ahem, by the way, that's against our code of ethics.).

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Communications Comparison Exercises Interviews 99

5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

It encompasses strategic communication to build and maintain positive relationships with the media, stakeholders, and the general public. Corporate PR: Manages the overall image of a tech company, including its values, culture, and achievements, to build a positive brand perception with stakeholders.

Technology 78

Technology Product Launch Crisis Management Case Study 78

Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Being Lazy with List Prep Creating your target media list for CES pitching comes with more levels of pre-planning and research than creating lists for other news announcements does. A key component of your outreach approach should be, “how do we make things easier, more convenient and more productive for our key media targets?”

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Automotive Mobile Technology Resources 78

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 17, 2023

Products: media database, media monitoring & reporting, email plugins for Gmail and Outlook, pitch analytics. Blog: Corporate PR Index: Two Cool New Indices Track Corporate Reputations and Risk Exposure to Misinformation [PR Tech Sum]. Comment: The company is striving to think bigger about media monitoring.

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Technology Software Resources Pitching 93

Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 24, 2009

The pitch worked. The interview’s scheduled. We could arguably start “The Bad Interview Blog” with all the gaffes that can occur in this critical phase of media relations. Instead of more this drama, we’ll help you create an interview brief so you, and your source, can steer clear of a bad interview.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 15 Reasons Your PR Pitches Suck January 27th, 2011 Tweet In the genes? I can’t tell you how many pitches I received that were so bloviated, they would have made Alec Baldwin jealous.

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Pitching Facebook Interviews Twitter 111

PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

29, Matt Charles, APR, presents a webinar titled “ How to Tell Your Organization’s Story to Get Media Coverage.” Whether you serve a large corporation, small nonprofit, major research university or municipal government, at some point your boss has probably said, “We need more media attention. Can you make it happen?”

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Storytelling Media Nonprofit Government 163

Solo PR Pro

JULY 5, 2022

Michael Ares, MDA Corporate Marketing, LLC. I write or pitch media in the mornings, so I am only available beginning at noon daily. I think it helps me see patterns in the media overall, which is useful to me since most of my work is in media relations. 5 solo PR pros share how they structure their work day.

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Meeting Writing Pitching Case Study 98

Shift Communications

MAY 21, 2018

Through its own newsroom , Facebook issued 31 corporate and 24 product announcements. Getting media coverage is more competitive than ever. Tech giants and behemoth corporations drive a high volume of the media’s stories. Why Pitch News Under Embargo. Media want to cover news when it’s still new.

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How To Pitching Report Interviews 68

MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

If you're a Vice President of Corporate Communications, Chief Marketing Officer or PR Director in Minnesota, there are only a handful of local business media outlets that you. With the exit of former editor Steve Mollman, the MaccaPR blog was pleased to interview the new editor-in-chief of. really care about - the monthly.

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Interviews Radio Journalism Newspapers 48

Cision

APRIL 18, 2017

While at the conference, I’m going to do several media interviews that link to that original blog post. Step 4: Amplify Your Content with Media Relations. Once you published several months’ worth of content on a topic on your owned site, you’re ready to begin your media relations efforts.

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Exercises Google Writing Blogging 198

Sword and the Script

MAY 4, 2021

You can see it in this month’s summary of news – the 24 th edition of the PR Tech Sum – there’s a corporate transaction, a few new products and a handful of PR surveys at the end. >>> It gave the product high marks for analytics, which can be used to parse social data to find social media influencers a brand may wish to engage.

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Tools Survey Pitching Analytics 100

MaccaPR

MAY 23, 2018

What could the producers and editors of The Wall Street Journal , “The Dr. Oz Show,” BuzzFeed, Parents magazine and NBC’s “Today Show” teach you about successfully pitching a story to the most sought-after media outlets in America? PERSONALIZE your pitch – to the person and publication you’re pitching. Get to the point.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? If you’re offering me a source, have a few different angles in mind and offer them as part of the pitch; “My client, Jane Smith, is an expert in X, and she can comment on A, B, C, D….” Hey, I’ve got this (whatever it is) but I’m not sure how it might fit into your coverage.”

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Journalism Meeting Newspapers Automotive 80

Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? I think the most important thing is to keep pitches simple but most importantly relevant. The amount of completely irrelevant pitches I get in my email drives me insane. I try to be easy to work with :) Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Meeting Automotive Engineering Journalism 74

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. First, we start with.

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Cision

JUNE 8, 2016

In this interview, Doug discusses how to build positive relationships with clients, how to improve your media relations outreach and how new technology has affected communication. What’s your secret to media relations success? I learned early on that it all starts with good writing skills.

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