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What journalists need from PR pitches

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That means the journalists you’re contacting are overwhelmed with pitches; many of them poorly thought out or irrelevant. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Personalize your PR pitches.

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PR Lessons From Twitter

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

However, no one can advise PRs better on how and what to pitch reporters than… reporters. Journalists love to take to Twitter to offer up best practices or, more likely, let off steam about the terrible pitches that clog their inboxes on a daily basis. Their style is sometimes brutal, but the advice is priceless.

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How To Set Expectations In Public Relations

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If you want a product launch to be covered in a top-tier publication, journalists will need to talk to someone who has used the product or can speak to its market value. Maybe a marketing executive bores a reporter to tears with brand-speak or hits him with a product sales pitch instead of telling a good story.

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Newsjacking Tragedy

Rock the Status Quo

It’s one thing to newsjack a story by pitching media when you have a relevant client that can enhance the news. If Edelman had just quietly pitched media their story ideas and sources for how to grow awareness around mental illness in a sensitive fashion, it would have been perfectly appropriate. Tacky and tasteless.

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The Most Recommended PR Tech Vendors [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

That’s a mouthful of buzzwords, but Ryan Reeves, a product manager for the company, added some context on LinkedIn: “Signals uses AI to continually read trillions of articles to detect important company trigger-events (viral articles, product launches, financials, partnerships, headcount changes, etc.)

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Last-Minute PR Tips For A Successful CES

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Your story will be more likely to stand out in the vast CES ocean of tech talk if you cut the jargon, strip out tired buzzwords, and focus on the human factor when pitching it to media and analysts. You can even pitch media once CES has ended. Think about it, many tech journos started receiving CES pitches in July!

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How to Secure Top-Tier Coverage with Cortney Williams, ARPR

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Within this interview, we break down real examples of how she landed top-tier coverage, what worked, and her tips for replicating it for your own pitches. On a day to day basis, that could consist of anything from assisting my team in developing key account plans (tradeshow activations, product launch plans, etc.),