It’s time to say buh-bye to some of your favorite reporters.<\/p>\n
Right now, all over the U.S., there’s an exodus of experienced, high-profile, high-priced journalists taking early retirement.<\/p>\n
To boost profits, newspapers are offering buy-outs to some of their veteran staff members who will be replaced with cheaper, less experienced reporters and editors.<\/p>\n
Here in Milwaukee, for example, the Journal Sentinel<\/a>\u00a0offered buyouts to about a dozen veteran writers and editors.\u00a0 The same thing is happening at radio stations.<\/p>\n During yesterday’s private teleseminar with members of the Publicity Hound Mentor Program,<\/a> I discussed a long list of ways Hounds can use this to their advantage.<\/p>\n If a beat reporter with whom you’ve established a great relationship leaves, make sure the reporter introduces you to the new person taking over the beat.<\/p>\n Then shift into the role of “educator” and help the new reporter understand your industry, its lingo, its idiosyncrasies and its trends.<\/p>\n –Invite the reporter to a “getting to know you” lunch.<\/p>\n –Ask “How can I help you?”<\/p>\n –Encourage the reporter to call on you for story ideas, background and commentary, day or night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s time to say buh-bye to some of your favorite reporters. Right now, all over the U.S., there’s an exodus of experienced, high-profile, high-priced journalists taking early retirement. To boost profits, newspapers are offering buy-outs to some of their veteran staff members who will be replaced with cheaper, less experienced reporters and editors. Here in\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":4,"wds_primary_category":615,"footnotes":""},"categories":[615,609],"tags":[29,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-1226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-print-media","7":"category-tv-radio","8":"tag-media-relations","9":"tag-pitching","10":"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\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40772,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/40772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}