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Try This Writing Exercise to Kickstart Your Work Day

PRSay

Michael Smart teaches PR professionals how to dramatically increase their positive media placements. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Georgia Tech to help their media relations teams reach new levels of success. Get more media pitching knowledge from Michael Smart here.

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Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 3,000+ Journalists [UML]

Sword and the Script

Of all the media relations insights the best one is this: be relevant. This stuff isn’t hard, and while I’m not a reporter, an exercise like this is a glimpse into their world. The vast majority of media relations hinges on relevancy. I’d do a considerable amount of blogging.

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Blogger Outreach Versus Media Relations: What Marketers Need To Know

Polaris

What it means for marketers: Although most bloggers are highly ethical, you need to exercise caution in who you approach and how. Whether you’re using blogger outreach or media relations to get the word out about your consumer brand, building relationships is key. Media Relations'

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Media relations in the wake of COVID-19

PR in High Definition

Whilst Dan expects the next week to still be busy with coronavirus-related stories, The Sun is choosing to focus on the more positive side of the story and running articles on best practices for things like working from home and exercising. The post Media relations in the wake of COVID-19 appeared first on Firefly Communications.

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Being Prepared for Wherever the Day Takes You

PRSay

After a morning of introductions and learning more about what a JIC is and how we can best prepare ourselves to be part of one, we were split into groups for an afternoon exercise. The topic of our exercise: an airplane has gone off the runway and caught fire. I suppose the saying that “Life imitates art” is fitting.

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Finding the Inspiration to Pitch

PRSay

The common thread among these examples is one thing that these savvy pitching pros did: They exercised their mere humanity and asked their media contacts a useful question, but only after they proved to be worthwhile sources. Michael Smart teaches PR professionals how to increase their positive media placements.

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ICON 2023 Q&A: Talking Crisis Communications With Amazon’s Barbara Agrait

PRSay

Today, she is the s enior PR manager of global media relations at Amazon. You should do trainings, mock [crisis situations] and exercises. With a career in law enforcement at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Barbara Agrait has navigated crises across the globe. You should have done the legwork before.