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How to Pitch Journalists in 2024 (According to Journalists)

Buzzstream

Once upon a time, emailing journalists meant buying a list of media email addresses and blasting out a generic pitch. Some got coverage, but the vast majority of pitches were irrelevant, which decreased journalist receptivity to pitches overall. Personalized email pitching is the key to success today.

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15 Reasons Your PR Pitches Suck

Waxing UnLyrical

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. And that was it.

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How Pioneers in Skirts Ran a Successful Kickstarter Campaign…and Beyond!

Deirdre Breakenridge

She pitched her idea to VRIDEO and convinced them to donate the gear and the work effort to splice the footage together. Additionally, Ashley Maria was awarded the prestigious Directors Guild of America award for her film, FridayNight Fright™ in 2010.

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Beyond The Wall Street Journal and New York Times: Five Growing Media Outlets That Belong on Your Media List

Buchanan PR

When I started my career in corporate communications three decades ago, there was a long-running joke that every CEO or client wanted only one thing from their communications team: “Get me in The Wall Street Journal.”. ProPublica is an independent, non-profit, award-winning newsroom that produces “investigative journalism with moral force.”

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Meet the Media: Dennis Scimeca, Technology Editor at IndustryWeek

Bianchi Biz Blog

I regularly receive pitches for SME interviews, and the first thing I tell the PR reps is “Does [name of SME]’s company have any customer stories?” 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? Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Boy, was it fun!

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Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Let Your Freak Flag Fly October 6th, 2010 Tweet This is a guest post by Narciso Tovar This past week, I gave a presentation to the Dallas IREM group about the importance of giving social media a second look.