I subscribe to Bulldog Reporter and one of the sections I follow is Journalists Speak Out. I check in every week to find out from journalists or bloggers first-hand how they like to be pitched or what they think of public relations. It offers good tips and inside information.
Today, after reading the newest posting [...]

I’m not the most observant person. For example, last month I realized one of my most favorite quick, in-and-out lunch spots is directly across the street from our office (in my defense, the signage isn’t the greatest.) But last week, while discussing a weekly status report update with Eric, I noticed that I’ve seen the [...]

With the insurgence of amazing technology over the last decade and a half, we were introduced to a neat little tool called “Skype” in 2003. Skype was a cure-all for long distance relationships (at least for the short-term), and it opened up a whole new world of communication for the masses. Today, business practitioners around the globe [...]

I was an English major in college – I basically knew I loved to read and write, and so I settled on a major that pleased my passions.
But then I graduated, and needed to find a career. So my summer months in Minneapolis before I moved to New York were spent brainstorming different options with [...]

I would consider myself a multitasker. I can pitch a reporter and research blog sites. I can talk to my boss and draft a memo letter. I can be on a conference call and edit a media pitch. But the other day even I impressed myself. With the phone in my left hand talking to [...]

Working in the public relations industry I should know that just because an expert is on television or a product is featured in a magazine doesn’t mean they are always the “best of the best.” More often than not their PR firm was the “best of the best” for getting their client featured over someone [...]

Along with the flood of newspaper outlets closing these days comes a [obvious] mass beat-migration of reporters and editors. For many, these changes also include an outlet switch. Unfortunately for PR-peeps like me, it’s hard to keep up with this tremendous cycle. Even ever-beloved software that helps me find contact information and pitching details for [...]

In PR, connections matter. Not just connections to reporters at the New York Times, or connections to companies that need a PR firm, but 24-hour connections to the Internet.
Yesterday, before heading out to lunch at Heartland Brewery with Danielle and a producer at FOX Business, I asked the girls what in the world publicists did [...]