Cision

JANUARY 22, 2016

Here’s a few themes we’ve complied when pitching one of the toughest, yet most desirable outlets: The New York Times. It may interrupt them in the middle of writing a story, or worse, prevent them from taking a call with a hot news tip. There is no other newspaper like The New York Times. Don’t call. Know the paper.

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Presspage

AUGUST 5, 2020

Combining the powers of email marketing with an attention-grabbing PR pitch is a winning approach when it comes to major campaigns. A targeted email pitch allows you to reach a wide audience of journalists in an instant, whilst making sure it’s relevant to their ‘beat’ List segmentation done right. Final thoughts.

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Presspage

AUGUST 5, 2020

Combining the powers of email marketing with an attention-grabbing PR pitch is a winning approach when it comes to major campaigns. A targeted email pitch allows you to reach a wide audience of journalists in an instant, whilst making sure it’s relevant to their ‘beat’ List segmentation done right. Final thoughts.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I’m Seth Clevenger, managing editor for features at Transport Topics , a weekly newspaper and multimedia outlet dedicated to covering trucking and the freight transportation industry. Later that year I moved to Smyrna, Delaware, for my first full-time journalism job at a local newspaper that was part of a small family-owned chain at the time.

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PR Fuel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can benefit from professional press release writing services if you’re nee to press releases. Read on to learn why PR writing in the way to go. By hiring press release writing services, you will be able to get instant exposure without going over your advertising budget. Achieve Instant Exposure. Boost Website Traffic.

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

Moderated by social media strategist Nichole Kelly , the panelists discussed ongoing transformations in the journalism world, the innovation process that sets USA Today apart from other digital newsrooms and pitching tips for PR pros to better work with outlets like USA Today. The worst pitches are those that are pushy or ignorant.

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

Your brand may have a good story, but if you’re not catching journalists’ attention with your pitch, it won’t get covered. Journalist Sharon Ward Keeble stresses the importance of providing value and detail when pitching your story. What is the most memorable pitch you’ve received? How did you get your start in journalism?

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PR Fuel

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Forming relationships with the people at your local radio, newspaper, and TV station can really help promote your business! Making connections with local bloggers in your community can also help potential customers learn more about your business through social media postings and word of mouth.

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PR for Anyone

MARCH 31, 2020

So, instead of us trying to pitch reporters on our time, which is normally what happens, what's happening now is we are getting in front of them on their time. You may consider writing blogs that are relevant to worldwide happenings so that more people can find you online, or you can use social media platforms like Twitter.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I currently write for Automobile magazine, Autoblog , Popular Mechanics , TrueCar , PCMag.com , WardsAuto , SAE Engineering and others. But I’m proud of any story that helps people learn and understand the topic I’m writing about or is if helps a consumer make a better purchase. Blind pitches on a subject I don’t cover.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

My main coverage and writing focuses are the transportation technology world, and government and regulations related to the trucking and freight industries, along with other website and magazine duties. . — While working in local news in the Northeast, I covered a few big hurricanes and major blizzards that ravaged the area.

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PR Insiders

MAY 5, 2021

But regardless of that ultimate audience, your first audience is always the editors, reporters, TV producers or others who receive your press release or pitch. You waste your time and the journalist’s time when you pitch a story idea that doesn’t fall within their beat. So, a pitch that arrives on Monday right around 10 a.m.

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HMA Public Relations

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Tell us how you got your start in writing? I’ve always loved writing. Growing up, I was usually working on one fantasy novels or another, and when I applied for college, I looked for a major where writing would still be a big part of my life. Tell us about the outlet and types of story pitches you want?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

I might write about a local company or service I never knew existed, and the next day might be an enterprise piece about electric vehicles or the steel industry. My first non-school newspaper gig was at the China Daily in 2013. Exercising, often reading newspapers and satire, playing guitar and curating my Spotify playlists.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our newspaper ended up winning an award for our reporting. In my role today, the most fun stories I get to write come from test-driving trucks. I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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PR Fuel

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

You could pitch individual newspapers and magazines. But you’ll have to spend time writing individual pitches based on those publications. That takes time, and you may spend more time on it than you did writing the press release. But publications like local or national newspapers have some authority.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

As managing editor of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine and TruckingInfo.com, she writes trucking news and features, manages e-newsletters and social media, coordinates magazine production, and helps to develop content for events and multimedia projects. Once I graduated, I had to make the choice: newspapers or trade pubs. Have a reason.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Although your executives may get excited when an acquaintance at the gym compliments them on their local business journal profile, they’re going to get a lot more excited when you can show them your PR efforts generated revenue for your organization. Shared Media. Shared media is also known as social media.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

How is reporting different at newspapers, TV and wire services? Spoken words and video must match, so reporters either have to write/talk to the video or find a video that matches what they’re saying. I spend a fair amount of time editing stories, particularly with younger reporters, and I even write a piece on occasion.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Start research and writing a byline for my Trustmark client. We’re pitching a lot of bylines to these kinds of pubs, and in many instances, I’m on the hook to take the first stab at the draft. Follow-up with the 30+ folks in the local mastermind group I manage with a note about our meeting tomorrow. 4:18 p.m.:

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5W PR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A couple of decades ago, media relations meant keeping in touch on a regular basis with the assignment editor of the local TV station and the city editor of the newspaper. In addition to maintaining healthy relationships with the local newspapers and TV stations, it also means opening up and nurturing rapport on so many other fronts.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I manage the day-to-day operations of WardAuto.com, writing and editing articles for the publication that traces its roots to 1924 as a source of automotive industry news, data and insight. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? What story or stories are you most proud of?

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Cision

JANUARY 28, 2016

But the newspaper climate has changed. I’m confident that the skills I developed in more than two decades as a newspaper reporter will serve our clients well. Every day I’m researching, writing and communicating with people – much the same way I did as a reporter. And there is a lot of writing in PR. Rapid Fire Round.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I’ve known Lin Pophal for years through her work as a writer for eContent , HR Executive , and others; have pitched her client stories and my own thought leadership topics (I’m in her eContent story on content curation tools ). ” Run an ad in a newspaper and it needs to be labeled as an ad.

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

In today’s media environment, pitching reporters and editors has become a lost art. Which students at your local college or university are already making the world a better place, and how are they doing it? How is your local government benefitting the community? If so, how? Look closely and you’ll find plenty of stories.

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PR Fuel

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Did you know most newspapers publish upwards of 200 articles a day ? They may also be interested in local business success stories. Now you need to know how to write a press release that will catch journalists’ attention. You can write a great press release, but people will look right past it. Does anyone else care?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

Freelancing means you never know what you’ll be writing about on any given day, so my portfolio has broadened in surprising ways since starting this freelance version of a career back in 2017. That’s a broad request, but it ended up being a lot of fun to track down and write. Cooking, hiking or playing board games.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

I also write the occasional story for our Automotive Engineering and ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazines. A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Barokas

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As a reporter, I was often tasked with writing 1,500 words on a nonsense subject. If you can write that much on why army green complements horizontal stripes, you can spin a story out of anything. Give me a new product or a service and I’ll give you a press release and several different pitch angles.

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Buzzstream

OCTOBER 17, 2018

For PR pros, these times of the year represent not only a festive season, but more importantly a competitive, short, and oversaturated pitching landscape. Even though the writer over at SimpleMost loved our pitch, she knew her editor wasn’t going to have time to read through the pitch and assign it out.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 8, 2016

Washington’s not really unique – it’s like any town with a myriad of local stories,” writes Christine. “So So what wins when it comes to local coverage? Regularly assess whether they and the publication are still covering the topics you’re pitching them on. You could be overlooking an opportunity. Take photographs.

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Bad Pitch Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Here is a decent pitch (DP) from RLM pr. We scanned those pages for weeks before writing this. local business leaders are searching for some answers they must have now: How do companies in New York 2002 ensure they are part of its future and not its “storied” past? Clinton’s staff to write something, not a bad pull.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

The PR team might pitch some less tailored info about the company for general brand visibility ahead of a new product announcement or a big funding announcement. As opposed to paying for advertising, PR pros earn media coverage by pitching stories reporters want to write, and readers want to see.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

She’s a Clark Honors College student and is writing her senior thesis on the lack of women in sports information director roles in the NCAA. On top of all that, she has also served as a DJ for the campus radio station, feature writer for both the student newspaper and yearbook, and as a sports nutrition PR intern.

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Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 15, 2006

NAME''S responsibilities will include writing copy for direct mail, company brochures, membership materials, tradeshow promotions, press releases, email blasts, and advertisements. LOCAL BUSINESS NEWSPAPER lists AGENCY among the area’s top 25 advertising agencies. A news release is background material. Thanks for reading.

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PR Fuel

JANUARY 17, 2022

Use a Professional to Write and Distribute Press Releases. Consider using the services of a professional press release writing service. Consider using the services of a professional press release writing service. These agencies are knowledgeable in writing different types of press releases. Use the Right Outlets.

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