ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 3, 2019

Top-tier earned media articles are terrific, and they’re often a highlight of the research, relationships and media strategy that goes into a good media relations campaign. If leadership insists that only splashy features in Fast Company or The Wall Street Journal will do, it will miss many opportunities.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 17, 2015

For the first ten years of my career, I thought noisy posts from journalists complaining about PR pitches were merely self-aggrandizement. I’ve always worked hard at understanding a reporter’s coverage and sending good pitches. As a result, I chalked up bad pitches to one or two lazy PR people (or worse, intentionally manipulative ).

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The attraction was instant, she says, and at that young age, it was a deciding moment in her determination to pursue a career in either PR or journalism. I understand more about a media company’s ins and outs and the structure and challenges they face. PR, marketing, sales and journalism. Contact us here.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 23, 2017

It’s hard to pin down a precise anniversary date, but PR and SEO have been together for the better of 20 years. Interestingly, the tools for managing and measuring PR and SEO. Interestingly, the tools for managing and measuring PR and SEO. See these related posts: Media Relations: Proven Ways to Get More Out of It.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

It has since been acquired by an SEO software company. 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. It raised a Series A round of funding for $1.1

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. Conversely, those companies who show respect to their people – both in working conditions and pay – will continue to thrive and receive the positive accolades and media coverage which comes with supporting all those on their payroll.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 25, 2022

As lead editor for Work Truck , I am responsible for content planning for both print and digital, feature writing, news reporting, manage our brand’s social media efforts, eNewsletters, event planning, and am also the content technical lead, helping with editorial technical and SEO efforts. Keep it relevant!

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Beyond PR

JULY 25, 2017

When it comes to SEO, earning quality backlinks (links from other websites to your webpage) is one of the most critical ranking factors. According to Brian Dean, SEO expert and owner of Backlinko , “the number of domains linking to a page correlated with rankings more than any other factor.”

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Audience relevancy, and the “human element,” and an angle that’s SEO-friendly (a nod to popular keywords and topics that are constantly ranked high on our site). How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? What is the motive behind this pitch?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I started my career at Adweek covering the television business and competing against huge established newsrooms like The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started right after graduation from the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 5, 2019

Tailored pitches have always been the key to success in media relations. Adding SEO and social data to pitches adds huge value for time pressed journalists. The 2019 Cision Global State of the Media Report contains useful insights for media relations practitioners seeking to cut through with their pitches.

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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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Journalistics

JANUARY 3, 2016

I started Journalistics to provide me with a medium where I could address the issues of “PR spam” – or spray-and-pray media relations, where less-experienced PR professionals would mass-distribute pitches in hopes of getting coverage.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 27, 2023

Now, it’s not at all unusual to see a company announcement first posted on their own blog or newsroom (including being optimized for search engines), promoted on social media and pitched to the media with an accompanying release. Earned media is the lifeblood of media relations, a core component of public relations.

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Journalistics

JANUARY 3, 2016

I started Journalistics to provide me with a medium where I could address the issues of “PR spam” – or spray-and-pray media relations, where less-experienced PR professionals would mass-distribute pitches in hopes of getting coverage.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

b) More pay-to-play opportunities to participate in national media relations opportunities. c) More companies create their own content and channels to reach audiences instead of traditional media channels. Rather, AI will be used to create a lot of filler and SEO bait. Local news and indy journalism more trusted. “I

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 21, 2018

Data-driven pitches win points with journalists. Journalists look for pitches that are backed up by data in the form of charts, graphs, tables, or interactive infographics. It offers a clear story map and lends credibility to the pitch. Data-driven journalism is the future. Data-driven stories support truth in media.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Amid layoffs and closures stemming from the pandemic, news organizations are republishing political content leaving less time and space for businesses news Survey data shows media relations keeps getting harder , but now there’s a new analysis of content being published that offers a glimpse as to why.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. They have previously offered re-targeting based on earned media audiences, which is rather novel.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“The early adopters have been educating the market in the last few years about the successes that can be had with integrating own, earned and paid media. Firms that stick to being mere providers of media relations will continue to lose market share.” Christoph Luke | Christoph Luke Media Relations.

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Their content marketing and brand journalism has not yet evolved to a place where they are comfortable letting employees take the spotlight, allowing independent voices to ring out with options, truth and expertise. It is SEO-friendly and appropriate to be then shared on the LinkedIn Company Page and other corporate social assets.

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

You work in public relations, SEO, content marketing or social media marketing. So I jotted down a list of PR/digital/SEO/content marketing influencers. Enlightened Self-Interest: The Pitch Email. You own a business and want to increase sales. But need reassurance that it’ll pay off. I think so.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Media relations remains an important part of the execution of a public relations campaign alongside paid, shared and owned media. Much of the modern public relations business grew up out of media relations and publicity, rooted in storytelling and editorial engagement.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2016

Tools ranging from Live Journal, TypePad and Blogger — to WordPress, Tumblr and Medium. Whether it’s email, newsletters, SEO, PPC, social media marketing — it’s imperative to ensure these are integrated and complementary. The Blogging Gutenberg . I view these interrelated legs to the same 3-legged stool.

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