One of the “Seven Sisters” women’s magazines, circulation 3.8 million, has asked freelancer Leah Ingram to write a roundup of eight fun European cities to travel to with your kids (toddlers to teens). This is based on a trip she’s planned for her family to visit Edinburgh, Paris and London the last week of July.… Read More
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‘Today’ looking for great grandmas, foodies, cheap dates
The “Today” show will be honoring outstanding grandmothers this May and wants you to nominate your favorite grandma. It also wants to hear from Publicity Hounds who live in or near Chicago, Seattle or West Palm Beach and love food. This is for an upcoming series with Giada De Laurentiis, author of “Everyday Italian” and… Read More
MarketBeat in Wall Street Journal a great landing spot for a CEO or business blogger
If you’re dying to get your boss into the Wall Street Journal, add David A. Gaffen, who writes the WSJ’s online news column MarketBeat, to your media list. Getting Quoted, which tracks who the media are citing as sources, says Gaffen quoted 87 different sources, some of them multiple times, in the first 10 days after it was launched on Feb.… Read More
New publicity leads for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day gifts
The Gift List has just posted 75 new “short leads” for Publicity Hounds who want to promote products that would make great gifts for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduation. Several of those have deadlines this week. Getting your product mentioned in these guides is often far easier than convincing an editor to feature it in any other… Read More
OverTime magazine needs organizing experts
OverTime Magazine, the business and lifestyle guide for professional athletes, needs sources to write or contribute to a story tentatively titled “Thirteen Ways to Simplify Your Life in 2007.” Think of this as a “Don’t Stress the Small Stuff” for athletes. “We’re looking for writers, authors, experts in mental health, and especially people who work… Read More
How to pitch to USA Today’s technology columnist
Kevin Maney, USA Today’s technology writer and tech columnist, doesn’t cover daily breaking news, individual product pieces, product announcements or product reviews, unless “they are mind-blowing.” But he wants PR people to let him know about up-and-coming technology that is just coming out of labs and factories, as well as tech trends in other countries.… Read More
How to get into Entertainment Weekly
The best publicist is one who understands that the media is their first client, says Carole Willcocks, Los Angeles bureau operations manager of Entertainment Weekly. If the publicist’s other client happens to be a hot-shot entertainer, that can be difficult. If you represent entertainters who want to get into Entertainment Weekly, read this interview courtesy… Read More
Newspaper editor wants how-to books, info
David Foster, managing editor of the Journal Register Company’s News Gleaner family of newspapers, feeds feature stories to all the newspapers in his chain, including 24 dailies. “Each week I write a lead feature (usually linked to a book), an Off The Shelf column that focuses on overlooked titles, and ‘How to … ‘ which… Read More