Any Publicity Hound who wants to build a strong relationship with a journalist should first find out if that journalist blogs.<\/p>\n
Many reporters blog because they want to. Others blog, grudgingly,\u00a0because they have to.<\/p>\n
A reporter’s blog\u00a0will tip you off to sorts of insider stuff you wouldn’t otherwise know if you read only the\u00a0reporter’s printed and online articles. Their blogs\u00a0also give you a great chance to interact with\u00a0reporters by posting comments.<\/p>\n
I just read some great tips on how reporters can blog more easily.\u00a0It’s called How to Feed the Blog Beast<\/a>, courtesy of\u00a0Amy Gahran,<\/a> a conversational media consultant and content strategist,\u00a0who posted the tips at\u00a0Poynter Online<\/a>. They’re excellent, and they’ll give you an inside look at all the ways you can start to form a relationship with reporters by interacting with them at their blogs.<\/p>\n As I mentioned on my CD\u00a0“How to Pitch the Best Bloggers & Create a Publicity Explosion,”<\/a>\u00a0commenting at someone’s blog is one of the very best ways to catch their attention and let them know who you are. In the case of a journalist,\u00a0commenting at their blog several times can lay the groundwork for a pitch that you can email a few weeks later.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Any Publicity Hound who wants to build a strong relationship with a journalist should first find out if that journalist blogs. Many reporters blog because they want to. Others blog, grudgingly,\u00a0because they have to. A reporter’s blog\u00a0will tip you off to sorts of insider stuff you wouldn’t otherwise know if you read only the\u00a0reporter’s printed\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":2,"wds_primary_category":603,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-25133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-media-relations","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\/25133","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=25133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40576,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133\/revisions\/40576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}