{"id":1362,"date":"2008-03-21T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/associated-press-hires-21-writers-to-cover-celebrities\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:49:19","slug":"associated-press-hires-21-writers-to-cover-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/associated-press-hires-21-writers-to-cover-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press hires 21 writers to cover celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"CelebrityPublicity\"<\/a>Newspapers are\u00a0headed for extinction, but celebrity news has never been more in demand.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press wire service is hiring 21 writers this year,\u00a0spread across Los Angeles, New York and London, says\u00a0Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily blog.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s also cold comfort that AP insists its new separate entertainment vehicle is “not about gossip, unnamed sources and innuendo or about ‘peephole’ journalism with AP photographers becoming paparazzi.”\u00a0Instead, the wire service claims it’s just giving its members what they want “in an area of growing interest” because it “makes good business sense.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the AP covers a story, it will send it to hundreds\u00a0of its member papers.\u00a0So there’s a big advantage to getting into an AP story. The push for more celebrity news is a great chance for experts to\u00a0piggyback onto it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Debra Holtzman<\/a>\u00a0does just that. She’s an author and child safety expert and keeps a close eye on celebrity news. When she sees a celebrity putting\u00a0a child at risk, or announcing a pregnancy or adoption, she responds by writing\u00a0press releases<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For example,\u00a0when Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, decided to adopt a baby boy, Debra wrote a\u00a0press release\u00a0headlined Madonna and Guy’s Perfect Baby Room for David, with tips on how to create a safe nursery. She has received lots of coverage from top-tier publications as a result of her press releases.<\/p>\n

What kind of celebrity news can you piggyback onto? (See “Special Report #50: How to Piggyback onto Celebrity News to Promote Your Product, Service, Cause or Issue.”)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newspapers are\u00a0headed for extinction, but celebrity news has never been more in demand. The Associated Press wire service is hiring 21 writers this year,\u00a0spread across Los Angeles, New York and London, says\u00a0Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily blog. It’s also cold comfort that AP insists its new separate entertainment vehicle is “not about gossip, unnamed sources\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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[605],"class_list":{"0":"post-1362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-news-events","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\/1362","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=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41600,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/41600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}