PRSay

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With PRSA’s Media Relations Certificate Program , senior-level PR and communication professionals will learn to develop media relations campaigns that evoke emotion, inspire change and position organizations as market leaders. When developing media campaigns, what common mistakes do organizations make?

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Media Relations Media Pitching Case Study 203

Cision

OCTOBER 7, 2016

We’ve got tips from Lambert on how to pitch a celebrity booker and what to avoid. How do you prefer to receive pitches? Pitches are best kept clean, simple, to the point with links and “buzz words.” Pitches that are long or oddly formatted really hold them back. Can you be pitched via these channels?

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Remote PR Jobs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Media Relations: Emphasize any relevant experience that involves working with journalists, pitching stories, or securing media coverage. If you’ve worked with social media, you probably started by putting together a game plan. Then come the content calendars and post schedules.

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Publicity How To Examples Crisis Management 221

Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

It’s not uncommon for a well-read mommy blog with a highly engaged Canadian audience to ask a minimum of $3,500 for a sponsored post and giveaway that includes social media amplification. Whether you’re using blogger outreach or media relations to get the word out about your consumer brand, building relationships is key.

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Media Relations Marketing Media Fashion 232

Cision

AUGUST 28, 2017

Fashion bloggers generate not only visual and social buzz for a brand but often drive more traffic and attention to what you are promoting than traditional media, due to the organic and personalized voice of a blogger. So how do you capture the attention of a fashion blogger with your pitch? Know Who You Are Pitching.

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Fashion Pitching How To Real Estate 236

Cision

OCTOBER 3, 2017

These archetypes group journalists by their common behaviors and beliefs about social media. This information may help you segment journalists by behavior, but journalist’s attitudes towards PR professionals are a bit more counterintuitive when it comes to the social media spectrum.

Social Media 202

Social Media How To Media Journalism 202

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

While its not a perfect analogy, something similar is at work in media relations. Once PR people reach a certain level of experience, they stop building and managing media lists. Yet in media relations, knowing who would be receptive to what pitch is a significant part of the job; you can’t be successful without it.

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Media Pitching Media Relations Strategy 129

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

PR people make mistakes every day, especially when it comes to pitching stories to the media. But in our line of work, we can risk public humiliation for even a trivial error if a cranky reporter decides to post about a bad pitch. This post outlines six common media relations mistakes and ways to avoid them.

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Pitching How To Report Radio 240

Prowly

JANUARY 23, 2025

Pitching to trade media requires surgical precision. In B2B PR, you want to impact the decision-makers: executives, managers, C-suite Theres no better feeling than proving to your stakeholders that your media placements shortened the sales cycle. Narrow down your media lists. Dont: Guess who to pitch.

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Pitching How To Media B2B 104

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. And of course, media layoffs and consolidations.

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Pitching Analysis Report Survey 195

Cision

JULY 19, 2017

Mid-summer in public relations means one thing — holiday gift guide pitching season is here. But, how does your pitch stand out when every brand claims to have this year’s must-have gift? Do they prefer online media or print? Are they reading mostly blogs, or do they get their info via social media?

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Powered by our proprietary global newscrawler and advanced data science, Onclusive now empowers communications teams with a fully unified earned, owned, and social media relations and monitoring platform to enable every step of the PR process.

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Media Software Pitching YouTube 369

Onclusive

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This week, we’re wrapping up our blog series about building a perfect pitch with an overview of how to measure your success, optimize your strategy and nurture your media relationships for the long-term. You’ve done the research, crafted your powerful pitch, and sent your media campaign out into the world.

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Measurement Pitching Data Media Relations 195

Business Wire

APRIL 21, 2021

In today’s media world, journalists are being pulled in many different directions, receiving hundreds of pitches a day via phone, email, text, and social media, just to name a few. For public relations and communication professionals, it’s becoming more challenging to get a journalist’s attention.

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Survey Infographics Media Pitching 446

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 4, 2020

Many of the PR technology vendors I track for the monthly PR Tech Sum put a greater emphasis on earned media than media relations in their messaging. Earned media is sexy. It’s larger than media relations, but only in the abstract. c) What makes a great pitch?

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Media Relations Media Print Software 179

Cision

JANUARY 17, 2018

Developing just the right pitch has never been easy, however. That’s why Cision recently updated its tip sheet, 10 Ways To Get More Earned Media , which walks through some best practices on forging the right relationships with journalists. S/he is reading 100 PR pitches a day. That is the overwhelming rule of PR pitches.

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Pitching Journalism Construction Writing 215

Onclusive

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Welcome back to our blog series about building a perfect pitch and nurturing your media relationships! This article is all about best practices for pitching—based on our customers’ collective experience and wisdom. As we mentioned last week, the key to creating a relevant and compelling pitch is knowing your audience.

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Agility PR Solutions

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock with your phone face down, then you know the latest trend on social media is the collective slander of bad PR pitches reporters receive and screenshot for their followers to mock on Twitter. This new era of public shaming happens when a reporter takes to their timeline to […].

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Twitter Pitching Trends Report 208

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 30, 2021

But for familiar media contacts, knowing their interests and thoughts on major topics can expedite media opportunities. This is because you not only know what stories they will cover instantly when a story breaks, but how they’re likely to approach, which enables a more targeted pitch. Interact on social media.

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Media Pitching Report B2B 333

Deirdre Breakenridge

JUNE 8, 2016

Social media can open new doors and might even land you that dream job or connection. Recent and current public relations graduate students at New York University’s School of Professional Studies, Srishti Assaye , Margaret DeJesus and Sabrina Ruiz , will discuss how to utilize social media to seek out professional opportunities.

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Social Media Pitching Media How To 150

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 6, 2018

Tech PR and media relations are sometimes a bit like dating. ” If a PR pro fails to consider offering a story to media as an exclusive, he may forfeit a great opportunity. Let’s use this model to get the scoop on pitching media exclusives for B2B technology programs. The $ pitches are no-brainers.

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Pitching How To Media Interviews 189

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Media relations is typically a key part of a good technology PR program. One thing entrepreneur-led startups and enterprise technology businesses have in common is a desire to generate positive earned media coverage in widely read publications from TechCrunch to BloombergBusinessWeek. Pitch a story – not your client.

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Pitching Media Enterprise Media Relations 160

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. Paid Media. Earned Media. Shared Media. Owned Media.

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Media Relations Newspapers Measurement Social Media 331

PRSay

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2020, there are fewer media outlets than ever and seemingly higher standards for stories, so it isn’t a secret that getting media coverage was already becoming more difficult before the pandemic. How open journalists are to receiving pitches from communicators about topics unrelated to COVID-19. So we’re just adapting.”.

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Media Relations Journalism Media Survey 158

PRSay

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

“The pitches you’ve shown have grammar errors, sentence fragments and lots of abbreviations — what’s your take on that?”. This was a question I got when I did a special webinar for PR professors to help them get caught up on all the changes in media relations. Get more media pitching knowledge from Michael Smart here.

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Pitching Media Relations Examples Course 149

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

PR people often plan out pitch calendars months in advance. Holidays like Black Friday, Cyber Monday and holiday shopping (for example) present both B2B and B2C PR teams with strong earned media opportunities. Feedback on pitches. Who doesn’t love a news cycle that invites timely story ideas? Hardworking PR team.

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Agency B2B B2C Pitching 310

PRSay

MAY 22, 2020

Among them, a clear picture emerges of when, where and how journalists prefer to be pitched. When is the best time to pitch a journalist? When it comes to getting your pitch to stand out in a journalist’s inbox, timing is everything. To that end, most journalists (64 percent) told us that they prefer to be pitched before noon.

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Pitching Journalism Survey Report 179

Onclusive

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This week, our blog series comparing top media monitoring and PR analytics software solutions, including Onclusive, Meltwater, Cision and Muck Rack, continues with an overview of media contact database, campaign management and reporting tools. Solutions for your media relations workflow.

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Tools Report Comparison Media 370

Cision

APRIL 14, 2015

Since the start of public relations, media placements have been the holy grail of PR success. However, with shrinking newsrooms and journalists being bombarded with pitches, how does a media relations campaign stand a chance in this new age? The Media Won’t Cover You if They Don’t Know You.

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Media Relations Media Pitching Journalism 120

Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

Earned Media/Media Relations. Far from just managing a digital Rolodex, landing earned media in publications that resonate with target audiences is only one small part of the earned-media mix. 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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Media Training Crisis Communications Conference Corporate 397

Garrett Public Relations

JANUARY 19, 2020

As a public relations consultant and freelance writer who sometimes dons a reporter’s hat, I’m always interested in trying out tools that allow me to get more […].

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Social Media Tools Small Business Media 216

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 11, 2021

Planning is vital to successful pitching and one essential component is the humble editorial calendar. An edcal is a content roadmap that ensures a steady flow of media coverage, even absent major news announcements. Repurposed content: Refresh previous content and select successful pitch ideas and posts.

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Pitching Content Marketing Measurement Social Media 308

Stern + Associates

MARCH 17, 2023

By now the big changes that have occurred since the days of Walter Cronkite – a 24/7 news cycle, a global and interconnected focus rather than a local one, the reduction of reporting staff by many media organizations in the rush to remain profitable (accelerated in the era of social media platforms) – are well known.

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Media Relations Media Storytelling Report 118

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The most rewarding – and maybe the hardest – part of working at a top tech PR agency is pitching stories to media. In addition to proper research and targeting, there are ways to draft a pitch that will actually be read. Here are six ways to customize a media pitch so journalists read it and respond.

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Pitching How To Media Privacy 156

Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2023

If you’ve worked in the public relations industry over the past decade or more you’ve had a front row view of the disruption of the media industry. The future of media relations is not what it seems. Many public relations practitioners start their career working with the media. It continues to be spot on.

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Pitching Media Print Social Media 124

Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

These brands typically maintain a robust newsroom, leverage their social media assets to the fullest, and optimize their strategy by tapping into attribution insights. Social media Social media provides a great opportunity to amplify your earned media content.

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Measurement SEO Web Social Media 356

Garrett Public Relations

MARCH 18, 2020

One question I see coming up a lot is – can I pitch the media my non-virus related news? The post Media Pitching in the Age of Coronavirus – Should We? appeared first on PR Consultant Garrett Public Relations Columbus/Worthington OH. As fellow public […]. Or Shouldn’t We?

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