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Your friendly and informative guide to getting your stories in UK national media - by award-winning journalist Rosie Taylor.
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Taking your pitch from ‘nearly there’ to ‘yes’ (opens the original)
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Before we begin, just a little note to say this is my 100th edition of Get Featured, whoop! 🎉 I never thought when I started this Substack two years ago that I’d still be able to think of something different to say each week about the (admittedly pretty niche) topic of pitching to the UK media. But here we are.This newsletter would be nothing without its readers, so thank you all so much for your support - from the handful of you who have been with me since the beginning, through to anyone just
3 types of email it’s worth sending to journalists (opens the original)
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I don’t need to tell you that journalists like me get far more pitch emails than we can ever reply to - it’s something we love to moan about a lot.But what we’re less honest about is that actually quite a lot of these emails are useful to us, even if we don’t end up replying to you or covering the story you pitched at the time.In today’s Get Featured, I’m sharing the three types of email I think it’s always wort
Should you be writing shorter pitches? (opens the original)
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The other day I was reading through some old pitches I sent just two or three years ago, when it struck me that I would never send anything as long now.These pitches weren’t overly wordy at the time (the longest was about 12 sentences) and there was clearly nothing wrong with them at the time as they got commissioned. But if I were to send them today, I’m not sure they would even get read…It really brought home how much has cha
How I pick from #journorequest responses (opens the original)
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If you work in PR, you’re probably already very familiar with the concept of responding to a #journorequest - but do you know how to maximise your chances of getting featured as a result?For the uninitiated, a #journorequest is a call-out from journalists for something they need for an article: usually an expert to comment or a case study to feature, or sometimes things like product samples to include in round-ups or services to review.The hashtag started life on Twitter, but with the demise of
How to pitch news to the Daily Mail (opens the original)
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A quick bit of housekeeping before we kick off this editor Q&A: I’m on holiday for the next two weeks, which means the usual short annual break for Get Featured too. I’ll be back in your inboxes at lunchtime on Monday, September 7, when paid subscribers will find out how to successfully respond to #journorequests. See you then!Do you want your story to feature in the Daily Mail, one of the country’s <a href="https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audienc
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