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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Cision

MARCH 29, 2017

Based on the report’s findings, the Cision team put together this infographic that provides the latest media industry statistics and tips for communicators looking to improve their relationships and success rates with influencers as well as their earned media opportunities. Follow him on Twitter @cglynch.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 14, 2017

2) Best to Pitch in the Morning says Reporter Survey. The best time of day to pitch reporters is in the morning, according to a Business Wire survey covered by the MediaPost. Time and time again, I’ve found – and there’s survey research to support this too – reporters find sources and stories through pitches and content.

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Landis PR

JULY 5, 2022

Pitching remains a topic that fosters some strong reactions among the journalists in the survey. Pitches that are poorly timed, impersonal, impersonal, confusing or lengthy will continue to be ignored. We should note that half of the journalists surveyed receive up to five pitches daily – or as many as 25 a week.

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Cision

MAY 26, 2016

In this interview, she discusses why financial brands are hesitant to embrace PR, how to improve your pitching strategy and how to best engage your audience. Finding new ways to express your message and connect with your audience, such as visuals like infographics or vlogs, can help elevate your brand from the competition.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Earlier this year, Muck Rack , one of the PR technology vendors I’m tracking, published a survey of 700 reporters for a report it calls State of Journalism 2019. The best pitches are short emails in the morning. 93% of reporters prefer 1:1 email pitches, although 19% said mass emails and newswires are okay. Exclusives matter. “76%

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Cision

MARCH 8, 2016

As journalism trends continue to evolve, communication professionals do not remain unaffected. This could mean sharing news via a YouTube video or creating an infographic on a recent industry trend. When pitching journalists, consider including photos or other multimedia to go along with your story.

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Cision

JANUARY 22, 2016

Once you’ve built that reputation, when it comes time to pitch, journalists will remember your name and will be more likely to give your story a chance. According to Cision’s 2015 Global Social Journalism Study , 39 percent of journalists see experts as an important source of information. It Establishes Your Expertise.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

What I wasn’t initially anticipating within the field is the creativity, anticipation and thrill it entails when conceiving campaigns, writing pitches and landing links. In terms of preparing pitches, there’s a fine balance between ensuring the client is credited in coverage and making the email too brand-centric.

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Onclusive

MAY 10, 2018

These shifts include everything from the implications of brand journalism on the PR function to the dwindling number of journalists filling established newsrooms. It’s a great listening tool to ensure your pitches are targeted.” ” This is a PR boon. And the journalists can be grateful for this, too.

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Cision

JULY 30, 2015

Want pitching tips that will help you land an interview? Click here for 10 Media Pitching Do’s and Don’ts! Check out this infographic for a helpful checklist! You’re looking for two things: the sentiment of their latest coverage and any red flags that may suggest a rocky interview ahead.

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MaccaPR

MAY 3, 2019

Until recently, our getting a Maccabee PR client interviewed on a podcast was seen as a peripheral “nice to have,” built upon “must-have” interviews with traditional media such as "USA Today" or the "Wall Street Journal." How to Pitch a Podcast Producer with a Potential Guest (Without Driving Them Mad). “I It’s a time waster.”. (

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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. Breaking news and trending topics can also be leveraged to generate interest. No ‘spray-and-pray’ allowed !

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PR Fuel

JUNE 5, 2020

People often make the mistake of confusing a pitch or marketing copy for a press release. A pitch is written in order to persuade journalists and gives a tease or a taste of what’s to come in your press release. Read on to learn all about how to send a press release and whether they’re still relevant in 2020. Credibility.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It was easier to sour those relationships more quickly just because they were getting pitched all the time, but yeah, I really like this. Is this approach harder to pitch to a client? Like, I’m fully on board for having the content-led outreach versus pitching like a PDF or something. Vince: Yeah. Vince: Yeah.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It also added “activity scores” to see “how often they are writing from all your most viewed lists and pitches.”. The report says journalism email open rates dropped 8% from 36% to 28%. Many (42%) want PR professionals to get familiar with their show by listening to multiple episodes before they pitch.”. These include the U.S.,

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prTini

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Mashable’s Branded Content Editor Talks Pitching. Infographic: The Ideal Length of Everything Online, From Tweets to YouTube Videos. How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism. What You Should Learn From Rejected Pitches. When It Comes to Pitching, Share the Wealth.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2016

Tools ranging from Live Journal, TypePad and Blogger — to WordPress, Tumblr and Medium. No longer does a new product launch require a pitch letter and an intern to reach out to a list of editorial contacts — spraying and praying for a response. The Blogging Gutenberg . The brand is the gatekeeper. Photo credit: Flickr, Ian T.

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Mindful Marketing

APRIL 18, 2016

They create content – everything from award and speaking submissions to infographics, videos, photos, bylines and white papers – as well as train executives on speaking and presentation skills, assist HR with creative ad copy, manage crisis situations and even manage social media channels for brands and executives.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

PR pros work hard to secure media hits, and a stellar feature in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times deserves to have a longer life than the hot minute it gets post-publication. Creating content – whether it’s a white paper, an Infographic or original research – can help make news for us. It means it’s time to get creative.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Personally, I’m a little weary of the ubiquitous Geico commercials, but the company certainly deserves recognition for staying on message – they’ve even got Warren Buffet making the pitch. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: Infographic: B2B Marketing Budgets Focus on Content, Digital. The response rate was 10.9%.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Our moderator was Jerry Swerling, Professor and Director of Public Relations Studies, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Pitching reporters is not the same as it was 10 or even 5 years ago. You can download the full infographic of the 15 skills here. So quite a line up. However, there are changes here too.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

Ideally, you majored in Journalism (or English) – or your PR or Communications program had a heavy concentration of writing-related courses. You should be able to show examples of stories you pitched and placed, or campaigns you worked on and generated results for. First, Writing Skills. Ideally, with agencies or larger organizations.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 14, 2015

Oftentimes a young applicant lists coursework they’ve taken in college that’s related to PR, journalism or social media. The media expects one thing from your PR pitch of a story, but the client wants you to deliver something not even remotely addressing the media’s needs. Think: A simple infographic about you). What do you do?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

” What’s happening in public relations is happening right now in independent journalism. These folks want to talk about their needs outside the scope of actual pitches. 21, 2019, the New York Times published a story, “With Local News in Retreat, The Community Fabric Frays.” The list goes on.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vince: Yeah, I mean, this, I feel like this strategy, like the, specifically statistics posts, seems to be something that, I mean, now I’m getting, I feel like pitches, email pitches from Agencies that just do that, right? Are you pitching the whole post? How do you pitch these big ideas to clients? Have you ever.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 5, 2024

There are also asset-less digital PR strategies that include pitching quotes to journalists. How to pitch: This gave me four rankings lists that I could pitch to journalists in the local media outlets in the top-ranking cities. How to pitch: This approach gives Pinrose an asset when pitching to beauty and lifestyle journalists.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

A lot has changed over the last 12 years — Forsythe is now director of editorial video at McClatchy — with many newsrooms, including McClatchy’s, wanting their journalists to shoot video, find photographs, incorporate infographics and more into their work when they can. Send More Multimedia in PR Pitches.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 24, 2019

Having served as the executive editor at Money Magazine, Magnarelli’s journalism experience gave her an advantage. If you only produced blog posts before, maybe scaling means starting to create visual content like infographics and video. “I said, ‘What do you want to get out of what we do?’

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In this article I explore how smart public relations practitioners are putting search at the heart of their campaigns and seeking followed links from the media sites they pitch. Public relations practitioners have more places to pitch stories but they’re likely to be working with journalists that are overstretched.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

This gamification of a company’s own website is also a hallmark in data visualization journalism like the stories on FiveThirtyEight. Ideation just means pitching or brainstorming. That kind of writing is closer to “making content” than it is to “doing good journalism.” Hub and spoke. ”).

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Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

If multimedia journalism is the biggest trend in the media environment, it’s safe to assume that multimedia publicists are also an emerging trend. Do you have attractive, generic infographics to accompany your story that would work for the publishing environments the journalist is producing content for? And guess what?

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Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

If multimedia journalism is the biggest trend in the media environment, it’s safe to assume that multimedia publicists are also an emerging trend. Do you have attractive, generic infographics to accompany your story that would work for the publishing environments the journalist is producing content for? And guess what?

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Cision

MAY 11, 2015

The Zimbabwe native received her bachelor’s in print journalism from Claflin University, and later received her master’s in communication from Johns Hopkins University. ​​ How do you innovate PR? What would’ve been a cold call or cold email becomes much warmer because I can refine my pitch through my social media research.

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NewsWhip

MAY 27, 2021

I would say that the fruits of our labor can be anything from a story in the Wall Street Journal, to a local TV segment on CBS, to a sponsored article within women’s books, but we don’t throw spaghetti on the wall. We make sure that the message syncs with what our client’s business objectives are.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

We’ll never forget the panic in the PR world as tens of thousands of journalists (aka our PR pitch targets) at newspapers, TV stations and magazines were laid off. Without paid advertising to support publishers and broadcasters, PR professionals would have no media outlets to pitch stories to.

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