PRSay

MARCH 18, 2020

At MediaSource, we’ve been speaking with our key media contacts to keep a pulse on what’s happening in newsrooms, and speaking regularly with our partners in journalism. In our recent conversations with journalists, it is clear that pitching stories as you may have done in the past is not an effective tactic during this news cycle.

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wiredPRworks

MAY 6, 2020

PR Pro Guide to Pitching in a Pandemic During COVID-19 Coronavirus. A few takeaways from our chat: Send your pitch in on a silver platter, ready to go with images and video. Get media training before you go live on radio or video. The post Pitching in a Pandemic COVID-19 PR Coronavirus Tips appeared first on wiredPRworks.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

However, media pitching and media relations to secure earned media still dominate the industry. Too Much Competition: Respondents highlighted that there’s too much competition from other stories, making it challenging for their pitches to stand out. This has made it more challenging to pitch stories successfully.

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Critical Mention

MAY 12, 2021

Critical Mention’s Licensed Content offering makes it incredibly simple for media pros to track and measure mentions within worldwide news sources and industry trade journals. . Looking for a way to monitor, analyze and share your coverage from TV, radio, online news and social media sources? Until next time! Critical Mention.

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Online is where people go to have questions answered, but traditional media — radio, television, and print — is where people learn about what questions to ask. In the case of television and radio, they must wait and see or check the newscasts’ scheduled programming guide as a way of knowing what stories are offered. .

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Just ask Reed Pence, host and producer of the award-winning national radio magazine Radio Health Journal. “An Don’t forget: If you are pitching an embargoed story you need to be responsive and have experts available in advance when the media inquiries start pouring in. You don’t want to play favorites.

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Solo PR Pro

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

He developed a love of sports and print media at a young age, and set off to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in journalism. When he arrived on campus, however, he was amazed by the student-run broadcast stations, including radio and TV stations that would actually compete in the local market for ratings. “I

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 30, 2018

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. These posts help PR writers come up with more relevant story angles and media pitches and craft them in a way that is more likely to gain journalist attention.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? Bill to help pay for a journalism degree from Kent State, which I received at the beautiful intersection of 2009 economic collapse and decline of conventional journalism. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? I used the G.I.

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HMA Public Relations

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Since I also loved reading the newspapers and magazines that my parents kept around our house (the Arizona Republic, The Atlantic, The Economist), I decided to pursue journalism – and here I am! Tell us about the outlet and types of story pitches you want? I’m currently obsessed with the album “Every Bad” by Porridge Radio.

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Prakkypedia

MARCH 31, 2019

Or in other words: “What can I pitch to the media?”. Don’t overlook the people that work in your organisation: they could be the key to your next magazine piece, newspaper profile or 30-minute radio conversation. When PR consultants sit around a meeting table with their clients, often one of the first questions asked is: “What’s new?”.

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Much like journalism, you must let the viewer/reader know straight away how this affects them and what types of solutions you can share. The use of “hyper-focused” pitches will be helpful as well – finding the appropriate media connections and pitch one or two producer/editors at the most you with which you connect.

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PR Fuel

JULY 24, 2018

And since you’re pitching news, doesn’t it make sense to follow the pattern set by the publications you’re targeting? Every Pitch is a Learning Experience. With today’s journalist shouldering more responsibility than ever before, it’s essential that you master the art of pitching stories. When did you send the pitch?

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Landis PR

MARCH 27, 2023

Covering baseball, it’s all about the new rules right now, especially adding the pitch clock to a sport that is famous for having no clock. What advice do you have for PR people who want to pitch you? What types of stories, trends or issues are on your radar now? Describe one of the wackiest proposals/ideas you’ve been sent.

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Prakkypedia

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Several times a week, I receive emailed media releases or media pitches from a wide variety of firms with a wide variety of topics and “stories to sell”. It’s useful and instructive because I gain insights into how some PR practitioners pitch to media, how they structure their email pitches, how they write their media releases and more.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Consider the following: Demand for media attention is high: Most top-tier writers now receive 100, 250 or 500 pitches a week for 5 story spots. My pro tip: Write 10 subject lines for each pitch. Pitch early–literally! I’ve had better luck pitching early in the day vs. later in the day. Paul Business Journal).

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I started in commercial radio in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2006 at the mighty KEZO, which meant I played a lot of fantastic rock records between the hourly weather and traffic reports! Music and cars; I suppose that sums up my journalism career!

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PRSay

MAY 23, 2018

An added bonus for you: Trade outlets aren’t inundated with pitches like their high-visibility counterparts, so it’s easier to get your pitch in front of the right eyes. Similar to trade journals, podcasts cover an array of niche subjects. Explain this to your client and show examples of past work to support your point.

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MaccaPR

JULY 8, 2015

Paul Business Journal and, increasingly of late, Minnesota Business magazine. Paul Business Journal, and news director for SPNN-TV Neighborhood News. Oh, and formerly a WCCO Radio talk show host and KFAN-AM Radio news director. That kind of PR pitching reveals a shot-gun approach. really care about - the monthly.

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Barokas

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Broadcast : In the hot pursuit of USA Today , Wall Street Journal and Forbes coverage, don’t forget about the power of broadcast, and the fact that the news cycles are often much shorter than they are for print and online stories. The post Holiday PR: Too Late to Catch the Polar Express?

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Solo PR Pro

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So you’ve pitched a bylined article and the publication has accepted it — congrats! Michelle says she would prefer almost any reply over radio silence. We do not denigrate the profession of journalism because we understand that sometimes you run into individuals who are going to operate a little bit differently.”.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

The differences are less significant than what, at least in a good newsroom, they all share: a commitment to enduring journalism values that include accuracy, timeliness, balance, relevance, importance, emotional impact, counter-intuition, enterprise. How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? Oh, where to start?

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

More than half of US adults (55%) found nine major news outlets (ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and NPR) to be credible. AM/FM radio is currently America’s number one mass-reach media, reaching 84% of American adults 18 and older.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

During the campaign our team convinced small bloggers to continue posting articles about the film, social media posts to be shared and engaged with, online radio shows to interview the producers, and backers to tout how proud they were to support the film!

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Sword and the Script

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve gotten a couple clients and a former employer into the Wall Street Journal over my career, and that photo in Roll Call is right up there with them in my book. 3) Snakes do Drive Time Radio. What we learned along the way was that it also had the potential for broadcast radio as well. for drive time morning radio.

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PRSay

JUNE 5, 2018

An accomplished voice-over and radio artist, Giles has served as the voice of The Food Network for over 10 years, and has many other diverse work credits. “I For “Sunday Morning,” I’ve pitched story ideas or commentary ideas to them, which they either go for or they don’t. Nervous energy is good. It means you care, you know?

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? According to Search Engine Journal, SEO leads have a 14.6 100, 500, maybe 1,000? percent close rate.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

On the Media If you’re looking for a weekly podcast that does a deep dive into hot button issues while "maintaining the civility and fairness that are hallmarks of public radio," On the Media is your new best friend. Pitching PR In this podcast, host Lesley Luce “cuts through the jargon and puts a new spin on the PR industry.”

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 2, 2018

My degree is in mass comm and I went to school for a career in radio. A3 I studied journalism in grad school. Universities should teach Writing, Pitching, Attention to Detail, Measurement (of course), and… How to deal with Rejection. measurePR #PRStudChat #measurepr. A3: Hard to say. What did for sure?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As it turns out, he got his start selling radio and television advertising and only later went to work in the CPG industry after earning an MBA. PR, marketing, sales and journalism. You don’t need to be a big shot so send us a pitch ! Today he’s on his own. Want to be part of the Off Script series?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 3, 2020

Burrelles integrated the TVEyes capabilities for capturing TV, radio and podcast mentions into its platform. As the company’s FAQs note, “Once the inquiry is approved, you will receive an email with the send date along with a final preview of your pitch.”. 6) Quick hits in PR technology.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

Melissa Thibodo is the whole package – she is incredibly bright with PR strategy, she is among our top student writers and editors in the journalism school, she has unparalleled relationship building skills, and she has a strong foundation of real-world experience. (written by Tiffany Gallicano) . Karie Mooney, @karies_korner.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Wilson award for business journalism. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? My foray into journalism began by writing “letters to the editor” to several trucking trade pubs. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? For that effort, I earned my first Gold Kenneth R.

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Ishmael's Corner

MARCH 24, 2015

Online Radio on the Rise. When was the last time you pitched online radio? Specifically, 44 percent of Americans age 12 and up listen to online radio on a weekly basis. It’s a quality, not a quantity game, identifying those online radio targets with relevance and influence (or what I call “rinfluence”).

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Solo PR Pro

MAY 10, 2022

Journalism has changed a lot over the last few years, but you don't have to feel left behind. As long as it's coming from a genuine place, you can land some solid pitches. The state of journalism in 2022. With journalism resources stretching thinner and thinner, your pitches need to be laser-focused.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

Paul Business Journal). You know you have skills but you don’t know how they will translate outside of journalism. The journalism world is much more fast-paced. Teaching people on the PR side about the journalism side. Journalism taught me a lot – including that life isn’t guaranteed to anyone.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

But I was such a big fan of journalism, so I became a correspondent, travelled all over the world and met a lot of people. One day, I remembered the words of Winston Churchill “You can achieve a lot of things with journalism, but you must know when to quit”. In that moment, I decided to quit, but I did not know what to do.

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