{"id":115,"date":"2005-04-06T20:03:41","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/prblog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:30:27","slug":"news-about-news-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/news-about-news-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Wire waves its annual fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&#8211;Business Wire is waiving its annual $120 membership fee starting January 1. That means you only have to pay a fee if you want the company to distribute your news release, or provide other services.<br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5ejx9\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Business Wire<\/a> also will reduce rates on premier multimedia services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212;<a HREF=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3rmqy\" TARGET=\"_blank\">24-7PressRelease.com <\/a>now offers news dissemination scanned by news.google.com, opt-in journalists, freelance writers and editors. It offers XML feeds to 2rss.com, feedster.com and other sites. The feeds are also available to MyYahoo for those interested in adding 24-7&#8217;s headlines to their personalized Yahoo accounts. Submit your releases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;When Andrea Obston&#8217;s PR agency asked reporters for their pet peeves, and what made them discredit news releases, the three biggest press &#8220;sins&#8221; mentioned were puffery, superlatives and hackneyed phrases. Journalists said they are particularly distressed by eight words or phrases that keep showing up in releases and are a tip-off that writers are guilty of blatant self-promotion. One of the words is &#8216;unique.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Everyone thinks their product is unique and you know that they&#8217;re wrong,&#8221; Andrea says. &#8220;According to the dictionary, unique means one of a kind. Are you telling me you are the only company in the universe to offer a certain kind of service? Chances are you&#8217;re not, so don&#8217;t say you are.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Business Wire is waiving its annual $120 membership fee starting January 1. That means you only have to pay a fee if you want the company to distribute your news release, or provide other services. Business Wire also will reduce rates on premier multimedia services. &#8212;24-7PressRelease.com now offers news dissemination scanned by news.google.com, opt-in journalists,\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/news-about-news-releases\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":{"0":"post-115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-press-releases","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41905,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/41905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}