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Behind the Headlines with Catriona Pollard

Cision

To make your voice heard, use strategic, targeted pitching techniques and broadcast authentic stories that will resonate with your audience. With today’s media being so fragmented and competitive, what works better is strategic, targeted pitching of interesting media angles to select journalists. How do you measure that success?

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9 Blogs To Make You PR-Smart

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For a better understanding of the mechanics of PR, from creating media pitches that work to delivering a well-crafted results report, no one does it better than the Cision Blog. Does your company have a stake in the current opioid crisis? Authentic Storytelling Project. The Cision Blog. Better Writing Blogs. Smart Blogger.

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Behind the Headlines With Stuart Pfeifer

Cision

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. What role do you think storytelling plays in PR?

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Behind the Headlines With Rich Oppel

Cision

Before you pitch a journalist, you must think about how your story adds value for your audience. It will include reputation management, crisis management, brand enhancement and media relations. It’s all storytelling. What are some of the biggest pitching mistakes communication professionals make? Everyone wins.

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Behind the Headlines With Brandon Puttbrese

Cision

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. I thought to myself: “Everything we do is storytelling!” If you can pack your pitch into 140 characters, do it.

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Get a Big Picture of the PR Landscape with these Notes from 10 Industry Surveys

Sword and the Script

It could be a way to cut through the clutter since reporters are deluged with pitches. Keep in mind, the story you are pitching has to actually be worthy of an exclusive. All the basic advice still applies (timeliness, relevancy and newsworthiness). Don’t dangle “exclusive” for a mediocre idea. Give our services a try.

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Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023

Sword and the Script

a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. The organizations who take their ESG, DEI, and social impact strategies seriously will be the ones who are unafraid to show their progress, no matter how big or small it may be, with a combination of visual and written storytelling.

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