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What to Pitch in October

PR for Anyone

What are you going to pitch the media in October? Employee Ownership Month. Pick one of these and start pitching the media today! what you can pitch your local media for the month of October. Think about what you can pitch in October. It’s almost October. Church Safety and Security Month. Co-op Month.

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How to Pitch Consumer News with Megan Garbe, Fahlgren Mortine

OnePitch

Read below for the entire interview with Megan: . What’s the best pitch of yours that resulted in coverage and what elements made it successful? I think our obsession with brevity in a pitch often translates to that same obsession with brevity in a response, but those two are very different things.

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PR Rock Stars: Life Time’s Dan DeBaun

Communications Conversations

But, as you’ll quickly see in this short interview, Dan is a whole lot more. And, he may be the first (and only) journalist to interview cats on TV! Of course, being exposed to so many local business leaders during my time at the Business Journal was a blessing. He’s a former journalist-turned-PR pro. Why Life Time?

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Meet the Media: Mary Gannon, Editor-in-Chief of Fluid Power World & Senior Editor at Design World

Bianchi Biz Blog

I have been in journalism or PR for 25 years — I went to Boston University for journalism and upon graduation, I worked as a business reporter for a local daily newspaper on the outside of Cleveland. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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A telecom company holding a red carpet PR event? Verizon kinda pulled it off.

Communications Conversations

I say “unique” because it was pitched as a red carpet event where Verizon would show off its latest holiday technologies and gadgets. When Verizon pitched me initially on this event, I was kinda perplexed. Why not open the list up to all sorts of local “influencers? Get Verizon employees involved.

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PR Agency Life: What to Expect

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

The endless media pitch calling and subsequent rejections were exhausting. Client Turnover — can lead to instability and the need to perform new business pitches constantly. Perhaps the best way to learn about agency life and a particular employer is to set up informational interviews with current and past employees.

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2017 PR Horror Stories And Lessons Learned

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Maybe a pitch contains bad info, or a story is printed with a key fact wrong. We’ve learned to take the time to educate clients and demand scrupulous adherence to the facts, warts and all, before committing to an announcement or other story pitch. The chronically late employee. Proceed with caution! PR tales of terror.

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