Media Relations
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Media Relations
Ask a Journalist: Tanya Christian of Consumer Reports on Why Journalists and Publicists Need to Rekindle the Relationship
[Editor’s Note: Ariane Lovell, Senior Vice President, Media Relations, NY Health and Multicultural Earned Media Lead at Weber Shandwick, is taking the lead for our reinvigorated “Ask a Journalist” series. First up? A conversation with Tanya Christian, multimedia content manager at Consumer Reports and former news & politics editor at ESSENCE.] Ever wonder what really […]
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Branding/Marketing
Five Ways to Build a Better Rapid Response Program
Reporters need color commentary and deeper analysis on breaking news, your clients need coverage in outlets that won’t cover product news directly, and you need to improve your media relationships. Rapid response works in all of these cases.
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Media Relations
Spinning Our Own Spin: The Ethics of PR
PR “spin”—in its proper and ethical context—is simply helping people tell their story better to reach target audiences more effectively. Here are the three steps to show anyone (and clients in particular) that spin is just fine—as long as it’s ethical.
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Crisis Management
Media Training and Intuit’s Communications Disaster
The Intuit fiasco brings to light four key lessons/pillars for communications professionals when media training company stakeholders: interview preparation, post-interview communications, media relations and crisis management.
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Media Relations
Looking in the Mirror: When Client Issues Are the PR Pro’s Fault
Misunderstandings about client expectations for media placement are often the result of PR professionals’ failure to help decision-makers understand what would be necessary to achieve success long before the contract is signed. Here’s how to turn such challenges into trust-building opportunities and prospects into long-term clients.
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Media Relations
How to Pitch Media in an Election Season
As the U.S. election approaches, PR professionals face a dilemma: surrender to a sea of politically-dominated coverage or navigate onward and continue pitching media?
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Branding/Marketing
New York PR Wizard, Now 100, Looks Back—And Ahead—At How Media and PR Have Evolved
Morty Matz, a PR pro who just turned 100, offered his insights into how the news media and public relations business landscapes—as well as the symbiotic dynamics between the professions—have changed.
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Media Relations
PR Lessons Learned: Tactics and Pivots of the Vance-Walz VP Debate
There is no greater magnification of performance than the race to become the next President (or Vice President) of the United States—and the PR lessons gleaned from political candidates can serve as powerful reminders for communications professionals.
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Media Relations
The PR and Marketing Effort Behind Chinese Laundry’s Taylor Swift Effect
Chinese Laundry CMO Sarah Zurell is on a mission to make the fashion footwear brand cool again—as it was in the ’80s. And that, in her mind, meant they should be cool enough for Taylor Swift. Thanks to a coordinated PR effort on the part of Zurell’s PR agency CLD, some creative marketing tactics and a symbiotic relationship between marketing and PR, that dream was realized. We caught up with Zurell to discuss the PR-marketing partnership that made her pie-in-the-sky goal a reality.
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Media Relations
PR Roundup: IPR Media Relations Report, Substack Lures More Journalists, Messaging Tips During Election Season
This week’s roundup looks at an IPR report on adapting to new media relations strategies, the Substack journalist trend and Kennedy Institute advice on messaging during an election season.
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