Sword and the Script

JULY 23, 2024

Three reports, including behavioral data from 400,000 pitches and two surveys of thousands of reporters, offer a bunch of pragmatic PR tips for pitching the media Anyone who works in PR and does media relations knows it’s harder than ever to earn coverage. For the 2024 edition, they polled 1,106 reporters globally.

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Business Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Media outlets are understaffed, and reporters are doing more. And with fake news pitches blanketing media outlets around the world, catching the attention of reporters and introducing them to your organization is harder than ever before. But the world is also noisier.

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Onclusive

MARCH 18, 2021

Be honest: how often have you presented a report on the results of and next steps from the past month or quarter of public relations and communications work without knowing who was going to see it? Below are three key things to consider as you craft your monthly, quarterly, and campaign reports for various target audiences.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

These scammers are using stolen branding, fake invoices, and false claims of employment at well-known agencies to con people on Facebook Marketplace. It is exactly the same people/person and the same scam – they are using agencies in the North because, in their own words, “creative agencies are easy targets.”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 17, 2024

About Muck Rack’s State of AI in PR January 2024 Report Muck Rack’s latest State of AI in PR report was released earlier this month. You can download the full State of AI in PR report on their website. (We If true, the share of PR pros reporting that they use generative AI may be a bit inflated. I’m not convinced.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 3, 2021

Here’s a report from the May event and what’s coming up in June. The May edition of WaddsCon covered a range of topics from the COVID-19 impact on client/agency relations to the impact on print, and from measurement frameworks to professionalism in public relations. You can catchup with the replay on YouTube.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 29, 2022

For a PR agency team, few things are more important than having media contacts at the ready. That may sound easy enough, but check out any reporter’s Twitter feed and you’ll probably see complaints about agencies who reach out to irrelevant or outdated contacts, or target their pitches in clumsy ways. they’re work.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 13, 2024

So, when PR agencies in particular are called out for lying or covering up, it makes us all look bad. Last month I saw a report that the world’s largest PR firm Edelman Worldwide, after being criticized for representing fossil fuel interests, lied about working for the Koch Foundation.

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Wadds Inc.

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Nine out of ten practitioners support a voluntary code of conduct to fix a 'broken' pitch process that costs agencies an average of £7,000 per opportunity. Public relations agencies pitching for new business face budget uncertainty, ghosting and intellectual property misuse. Half of agencies pitch monthly and some pitch weekly.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The PR pro sends thoughtful, data-backed pitches, engages with reporters on social media, sends swag (when appropriate), maintains relevant media lists, and manages all follow-through with reporters and journalists. The PR pro may media train spokespeople themselves or hire an outside agency or consultant to lead a one-time session.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2023

Crenshaw Communications, an award-winning B2B PR firm representing high-growth technology companies and leading ad tech brands, recently welcomed former ad tech journalist Mez Ambachew and PR agency professional Elana Warshavsky to the team. The agency also welcomed back returning team member Colleen O’Connor.

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Business Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

There’s a common thread to media relations around the world today: reporters need relevancy. Through a six-part guest blog series, regional experts from Worldcom Public Relations Group partner agencies share media relations insights and advice for connecting with journalists in Canada, China, Central and Eastern Europe, Germany, and the U.S.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Five months into the pandemic, I sat down to talk to New York Times staff reporter Anahad O’Connor. Remember that before you get angry about the length of time it takes to receive a response from a reporter. “I Be sure to ask reporters the ways they would prefer to work together. And of course, stay flexible. “I

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 20, 2025

This case study is from the people at Tank, a digital PR agency that helps clients to realise their digital ambition by marketing beyond the obvious. This kind of information can be turned into a powerful campaign that will cut through the noise of other PR agencies trying to get journalists to publish their content.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 30, 2021

Every PR agency team appreciates the importance of relationships with key media outlets and personnel. The most successful agencies have contacts ready to go for any type of announcement or story, but making a connection with a reporter is only part of the equation. Occasionally checking a reporter’s recent work is not enough.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 16, 2021

Are you a college student or recent grad looking to gain experience in a top B2B technology PR agency? Monitor and track media; report trends, create reports as needed. Help with social media content creation and report. Prior PR agency internship experience is a plus . We look forward to hearing from you!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Throughout my public relations career, I’ve done the agency-to-in-house and in-house-to-agency dance a few times. My first PR internship was for a small PR agency in my hometown in South Carolina. I quickly became hooked on the PR agency life. At an agency, time management takes on a new meaning.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Three PR software providers are getting a jump on the new year with AI-infused products for professional communicators; Bloomberg reports on more struggles for Cision The challenge with generative AI is probability. It recently published a case study with the CCGroup , which is a B2B tech PR agency out of London.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 15, 2022

Yet many don’t know what makes an agency a ‘great’ fit. Some companies fall victim to the “big budget, big agency; small budget, small agency” myth. Regardless of whether an agency is big or small, it’s the account team is usually comprised of a few dedicated team members who will deliver on the company’s objectives.

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Prowly

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Higher plans start at $416 per month and include features such as email follow-ups, social media listening, coverage reports, and additional team support. Cision is also best suited for corporate in-house PR teams or large PR agencies. It might fall short with understanding small to medium agencies needs which is where Prowly shines.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In fact, CareerCast listed “PR executive” as one of the top ten most stressful gigs in its 2019 Most Stressful Jobs report. On the agency side, it’s sometimes because the team overpromises in their eagerness to win a new client. Some of the pressure we encounter in PR is preventable, however.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Having worked both sides of the desk has given me a better understanding of what reporters want and need. According to Cision’s “ 2022 State of the Media Report ,” which surveyed more than 3,800 journalists at about 2,160 media outlets, 76% of respondents said news releases are the content they want most from brands.

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Agility PR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The previous two years saw many small and mid-sized agencies growing or regaining lost growth from the previous year, but this year finds agencies with a more challenging landscape, according to newly released research from marketing-focused outsourced business development firm RSW/US.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Business may be getting a tad personal as B2B buyers put “I feel safe signing a contract with them” at the top of their decision criteria Dentsu a global creative agency is out with a new study about B2B buying decisions. The report is partly based on 3,528 interviews – and more than 14,000 interviews since 2021. That builds trust.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

PR professionals are expected to create thoughtful, data-backed pitches, engage with reporters on social media, send swag (when appropriate), maintain relevant media lists, and manage all follow-through with reporters and journalists. PR Reporting. Reporting on established metrics isn’t enough today. Media Measurement.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 27, 2021

But my PR agency job has got me thinking back to what I learned about the industry when I first took a college course about it. I feel like I should have known more about it, since generating earned media coverage remains an essential goal for most PR agencies. What did I learn then, and how similar is my current experience to it?

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Remote PR Jobs

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

If youve been in PR for a while, you know how valuable HARO (Help a Reporter Out) once was. For years, Help a Reporter Out, HARO, made it easy to connect with journalists, making it an essential tool for securing media coverage. However, things have changed. However, things have changed. However, there are ways to overcome this.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 1, 2025

One of those vendors is on the media contact side, where the chatbot helps you create a list of reporters to contact. Instead of searching and sorting through a database, you just tell Dazzles chatbot (Dazz) what your pitch is about, and it goes a search for relevant reporters and influencers based on what they have written.

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Wadds Inc.

MARCH 9, 2025

The PR Population report identified based on data from the 2021 Census and anecdotally through applications to the Socially Mobile programme. The report sets out cultural, structural and societal issues. The early drafts of the report generated noisy discussion and debate among the research team and the women who contributed to it.

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Publicity Leadership LinkedIn Exercises 94

Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2025

The CIPR State of the Profession reports in 2022 and 2024, both based on self-reported data from practitioners, said that 13 per cent and six per cent of practitioners respectively, declared themselves independent. The 2021 PRCA census reported 99,900 practitioners are working in the UK industry.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 3, 2021

Being an intern at a top New York PR agency has exposed me to many things I hadn’t experienced before. A major goal of good PR is helping your client get more exposure in the media, and that means talking to reporters. It refers to a situation where the PR team offers first-crack at a story to one reporter and one reporter only.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If you’ve ever evaluated PR agencies or communications technology providers, you have likely considered how their solutions compare to each other and how they fit your needs. But have you also looked at their potential Return on Investment, or ROI?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 29, 2022

Depending on the announcement, we may seek an exclusive, meaning one reporter has access to the news before others. So what should you do when you are ghosted by a reporter? It can be easy to assume the reporter has stopped responding because you did something to turn them off from the story, but that is likely not the case.

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Steve Barrett on PR

APRIL 25, 2024

WPP, IPG, Omnicom and Publicis have all now reported their Q1 numbers and the outlook for their PR firms is not uniform.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As a PR agency team , we know that media interviews help build connections between a reporter and a client company. When both the reporter and spokesperson have both joined, the PR rep should make introductions and even provide a little background. If there’s no need for a preamble, I let the reporter take the lead.

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Onclusive

JULY 27, 2020

We are excited to put the power of the world’s largest earned media database directly into the hands of small & medium sized businesses and agencies of all sizes. Track and research companies, trending topics, and authors across a variety of media formats.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 2, 2019

As the national holiday approaches, it’s a fitting time to consider what independence means in the world of PR agencies. In our industry independent agencies have grown at a brisk clip when compared to publicly-held PR firms for the past few years, although the larger agencies experienced a nice rally in 2019.

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