ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2018

While pitching the national publications should definitely be a part of the overall PR plan, no B2B tech campaign can afford to ignore the opportunities that trade media afford. Digital and print trades in a given sector are tantamount to a virtual business community. How trade coverage wins. Trade pubs are a community network.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

The information in this post originally appeared on Public Relations Global Networks blog. To secure interest from French language media in Quebec, it is best to have Francophones in Quebec to pitch your story ideas. Media are no different and require a tailored approach , even with popular U.S. story angles.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 25, 2015

When I started out in PR, my focus was building relationships with the media who were mostly print journalists at newspapers and trade publications. As I found editorial success for my agency’s clients, I was able to branch out and pitch radio and television broadcast opportunities. Yes, there is still print and broadcast media.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Beyond research that your marketing team may have already conducted to determine the best mix of platforms for delivering your content, using actual past data to inform your future strategy comes in handy during this stage. You can also create an editorial schedule where you plan to release periodic industry trends (e.g.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There are countless opportunities in print, digital and broadcast available with a little research, packaging and know-how. And, despite the calendar, digital media seem to publish holiday-themed news until the 11th hour, so it’s almost never too late to pitch a good idea. Look back at learnings. Leverage holiday icons.

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Cision

MAY 24, 2016

Media professionals cannot sit around waiting for pitches if they expect to have an impact on their audiences. Q: What makes a good pitch? “What makes a good pitch? Be able to do what you’re pitching to me is job one. Some stories will work well in print, others in video. Is it interesting?” East Coast.”.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The wheels in my head were spinning with how I might pitch the story to my editors. Unfortunately, however, the misfire was one in a litany of recent missives based on bad information—a debacle that ultimately prompted me to blacklist dozens of individuals and agencies. The invitation seemed interesting at first. Coverage areas.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this preview Q&A, Welage discusses developing media campaigns, communicating results with senior leaders and improving the success rate of pitches. Earned media is exactly that — earned — and it’s built on pitching and nurtured relationships. percent of the pitches they receive. Starting on Nov.

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Prowly

APRIL 2, 2025

How to create monitoring digests Prowlys media monitoring covers online, social, print , and broadcast media. REQUEST A PRINT AND BROADCAST DEMO All you have to do to set up your first-ever monitoring digest in Prowly is complete these two steps: 1. Want to save time on personalizing pitches? Crisis prevention.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Although Dao is a new addition to the staff, the magazine has been around since 1994, providing a home for food culture in print and digital. We’ve got tips from Dao on what and how to pitch tasty treats and stories. What kind of information do you like to receive? How do you prefer to receive pitches?

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Cision

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In modern communications, we can now flip the model and use the information we have about our audiences (interests, demographics, geographies) to find suitable influencers that impact those audiences. It’s not easy to consistently gather, house and maintain up-to-date information on influencers.

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

Today, USA Today ranks first in combined print and digital circulation, underlying the importance of this digital transformation for newsrooms around the world. Once you’ve established that, then pitch a reporter, he continues. “Visual storytelling isn’t built on pretty pictures, but on information and information gathering.”

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Onclusive

MARCH 29, 2022

Make sure that the partner you’re selecting can capture all the media channels and formats that are essential to your business, including digital, video, print, social, blogs, podcasts, and more. If you want everything automated, easy to set up and use on your own, ask for the information about their standard offering.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 3, 2021

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. Asif Choudry, director, We Are Resource talked about how his printing-led business had seen a boom in packages sent by employers to employees.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2023

Once the initial shock of ChatGPT wore off in PR community, some of the more nefarious use cases came to light: Generative AI could be used to pump out false information; Legal issues about training data and copyrights emerged; and Generative AI sometimes just “hallucinates” – it make up answers. It makes sense.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Miller’s sales pitch to Silicon Valley execs, whom he views as “surprisingly unsophisticated” at using their own communications tools, seems to be that good will is a zero-sum game. It hired Burson Marsteller to pitch bloggers on Google’s invasions of user privacy. If you lose, I win.

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OnePitch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

On this week’s Pitches That Placed, we are highlighting a pitch that landed a print-only placement in Travel + Leisure for a new attraction in the St. Let’s see why this pitch worked: Let’s take a look at the actual pitch that placed: . with your pitch and 3-5 reasons why you believe it worked. Louis area.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Meltwater tracks from 275,000 online news sources and has partnerships for print and broadcast monitoring. Sometimes it can be difficult to land pitches, but with ProfNet, the media opportunities present themselves. While Google is a default monitoring tool for many agencies, it can be time-consuming, and it often misses coverage.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

If you’ve done your job recording detailed information on your customers through your customer relationship management platform, you should be able to glean data on what they care about, what they’re looking for, and the channels they prefer to receive marketing messages through. Informative? What changes would they want to see?

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Cision

JUNE 24, 2016

The editors’ discussion demonstrated three major themes at work at The Washington Post that you’ll want to keep in mind if you plan on pitching the outlet in the future. The Post not only relies on social media for distributing its news, but also for tracking the latest trending stories and information. Social Is Integral.

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Prowly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

2 Identify your target audience The great news is that you probably already have this information from recent PR campaigns or marketing campaigns in general. Behavioral patterns (previous behavior online, on your website and social media) The more information you have, the better your targeting will be.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 4, 2020

Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004 or early 2005…and then interest waned. c) What makes a great pitch?

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5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

While a media kit is a collection of information about the brand, not all media kits will look the same. Media kits used to be presented following a pitch at a press conference or other large event, but starting in the early 2000s, the best practice shifted to individualized pitches via email. What to Include in a Media Kit?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 30, 2018

Even the most stellar pitch is useless if the wrong people are targeted; a carefully selected list of fewer reporters will yield better results than a spray-and-pray approach. While this may seem easy and obvious, it takes a certain talent for “creative analysis” to avoid missing pitch opportunities.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JULY 17, 2023

Add to that the onslaught of news and other content coming in through your news apps, email newsletters, social media streams, your work and personal email communications, and RSS reader — and you have fatigue from information overload! What is information overload? It can also contribute to burnout and information anxiety.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 28, 2025

The two most popular tactics digital PRs use are pitching data-led content (95%) and providing expert commentary (93%). The biggest challenge with media lists is outdated or incorrect journalist information (61%). Pitching Journalists 32. 54% of PRs receive 1-5 pitches per day. Tactics for PRs 7. BuzzStream ) 29.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The contact database – and the information it contains – is “human-verified” according to an announcement the company emailed. It also allows for pitching through the platform, which checks off distribution. Muck Rack adds print monitoring through LexisNexis. Muck Rack added print media to its monitoring package.

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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. While online marketing and content production may be the trend, other forms of media still lead the charge when informing the public about what’s new and important.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2015, mobile compatibility and multimedia continued to shape how newsrooms reach and inform their readers, and predictions show no sign of these trends fading. How have traditionally print newspapers made sense of the changing media landscape? She’s not looking for pitches laying out everything there is to know about a subject.

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OnePitch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What’s the best pitch of yours that resulted in coverage and what elements made it successful? I think our obsession with brevity in a pitch often translates to that same obsession with brevity in a response, but those two are very different things. What information do you always make sure to include in a pitch?

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Cision

MARCH 24, 2017

If you find the compelling human story in what you’re pitching, you’ll be successful. Good clients are always forthcoming with information; good agencies take that information and fashion it into actionable ideas. Finally, having patience is a must. It got to a point that was too vast to comprehend.

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The Proactive Report

APRIL 6, 2021

Just as with print publications, the top tier websites are harder to pitch. The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer showed a marked downtrend in trust and revealed that people don’t know where or who to turn to for reliable information. How can you include this information in your PR plans?

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Cision

MARCH 21, 2016

They must reconsider how they create, distribute and pitch their thought leadership. To increase the chances of getting coverage, those pitching major outlets like USA Today (whose readership is between 60 and 65 percent mobile) should make their information visually appealing, accessible and easy to read on a small screen.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

If you love tech PR , you might have the opportunity to learn something about data security, e-payments, or explore the future of 3D-printing. And even though we look for hard news, our coverage is broad, and so is our readership, so we appreciate “creative” pitches as long as they are well thought out.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2024

This PR software company was started by a former PR agency owner; pitch analytics is where Propel really shines I have a soft spot for startups because I’ve been employed or consulted with many of them over my career. b) The second way is to search for articles that are related to the topic you want to pitch.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

For PR programs, whether the moment calls for media pitches or creative extensions, it’s best to make sure ideas, language, and core messages are authentic. Words matter, and the phrases and descriptions in your PR pitches or press releases — even on the phone, informally — can have lasting impressions and ramifications.

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Presspage

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That means the journalists you’re contacting are overwhelmed with pitches; many of them poorly thought out or irrelevant. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Personalize your PR pitches.

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