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Journalists Love Twitter, and if Your Job is Media Relations, You Should too

Sword and the Script

Most PR professionals seem to agree that media relations just gets harder every year. In 2018, 51% of respondents said media relations is getting harder, according to the annual JOTW Communications Survey, that I’ve partnered with Ned Lundquist and Ned’s Job of the Week newsletter to field.

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PR Rules To Break For Killer Media Relations

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The best and brightest public relations teams have guidelines to achieve the best media relations results. Break these rules; improve media relations. In today’s fractured media world, this is a fairly antiquated notion. Never reach out to a journalist on Twitter. Always offer an exclusive.

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Six Tips on Building Positive Relationships With Journalists [Infographic]

Deirdre Breakenridge

Media relations interests me because of the relationships I have personally had with public relations professionals. When the time came to start my infographic, I felt it would be fitting to educate PR pro’s about how to make their communications with the media positive.

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Online Newsrooms: the Secret Sauce for Media Relations

The Proactive Report

Take media relations. Despite the major changes in the media landscape, it’s still a core part of PR and there are still reporters, editors and producers we have to reach out to. So although there have been major changes in the media landscape, the fundamentals of media relations are still the same.

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Elevator Pitch or Twitter Pitch?

Waxing UnLyrical

With changing technology and the advent of social media, the way we communicate with the media has also changed to some extent. While I believe most journalists these days are using Twitter, the PR industry, at least in India, is still catching up to that platform. On the media side of things. Yay or nay… and why?

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How To Score A Great Local News Story: 5 PR Tips

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For example, survey results or breaking news at a national company will be pitched to national media, whereas region-specific news will be offered to local reporters. Although the number of local news outlets — particularly newspapers — has declined over the past several years, local media still offers clout.

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Media Relations in 2020

5W PR

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 today’s world of social media, media relations is so much broader. What’s Different?