{"id":19518,"date":"2013-05-24T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/?p=19518"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:12:00","slug":"press-release-news-release-or-media-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/press-release-news-release-or-media-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Press release, news release or media release?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That question baffles Publicity Pups as well as veteran Publicity Hounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is a <strong>press release<\/strong> just for newspapers and magazines? Does a <strong>news release<\/strong> have to include news?&nbsp;Is a <strong>media release<\/strong> for all types of media?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t sure, which one do you use?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three phrases mean the same thing and which one you choose isn&#8217;t a big deal. The content of the release is far more &nbsp;important than what you call the container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did a quick search using the <a href=\"https:\/\/adwords.google.com\/o\/Targeting\/Explorer?__c=1000000000&amp;__u=1000000000&amp;ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Keyword Tool<\/a>&nbsp;and found the total number of global monthly searches for each:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1,220,000 for press release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>550,000 for news release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>135,000 for media release<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s one reason I use the phrase &#8220;press release&#8221; in my blog posts, articles and product titles. More people are searching for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll find lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/keyword\/press-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advice for writing and using press releases<\/a> in the more than 140 posts on this topic at my blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What phrase do you use most often? Do you think they they have different definitions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That question baffles Publicity Pups as well as veteran Publicity Hounds. Is a press release just for newspapers and magazines? Does a news release have to include news?&nbsp;Is a media release for all types of media?&nbsp; If you aren&#8217;t sure, which one do you use?&nbsp; All three phrases mean the same thing and which one\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/press-release-news-release-or-media-release\/\" class=\"rmlink\">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":1,"wds_primary_category":691,"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[13,229],"class_list":{"0":"post-19518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-publicity","7":"tag-press-releases","8":"tag-seo","9":"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\/19518","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=19518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43107,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19518\/revisions\/43107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}