{"id":25155,"date":"2007-07-10T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/aarp-magazine-pitching-tips-needed\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:46:11","slug":"aarp-magazine-pitching-tips-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/aarp-magazine-pitching-tips-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"AARP magazine pitching tips needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/content\/archives\/06\/08\/11\/aarp.jpg\" height=\"205\" \/>Have any of you pitched <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/magazine\/\" rel=\"noopener\">AARP The Magazine<\/a>, or found pitching tips that will help other Publicity Hounds?<\/p>\n<p>The last several years, I&#8217;ve emailed\u00a0the editors and asked if they can pass along pitching tips, but I never got a response.<\/p>\n<p>Publicity Hound <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsjmktg.com\/who_nancy.php\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Juetten\u00a0<\/a>asked me yesterday if I know the best way she should pitch her client,\u00a066-year-old Alice Cunningham, co-owner of Olympic Hot Tub Company in Pugent Sound, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We both spent a few minutes Googling and here&#8217;s what we found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five pitching tips from an AARP editor, courtesy of Bulldog Reporter newsletter and\u00a0\u00a0reprinted in Nancy Schwartz&#8217;s Getting Attention! blog.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/magazine\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Writers guidelines<\/a>\u00a0for freelancers at the AARP website.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/magazine\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Tips<\/a> at the AARP website on how to write a letter to the editor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span class=\"203450102-10072007\">An article at the Media Bistro website that includes pitching tips for freelancers.\u00a0You&#8217;ll have to subscribe\u00a0to this service to access the entire article.\u00a0(I subscribed. Well worth the price.)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span class=\"203450102-10072007\">An entry form you can use to nominate yourself to be\u00a0a model for the magazine.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on all of the above, it sounds like the best way to pitch a story is to contact one of the freelancers who writes for the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Do any of you have other success stories to share about how you or your PR client got into AARP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have any of you pitched AARP The Magazine, or found pitching tips that will help other Publicity Hounds? The last several years, I&#8217;ve emailed\u00a0the editors and asked if they can pass along pitching tips, but I never got a response. Publicity Hound Nancy Juetten\u00a0asked me yesterday if I know the best way she should pitch\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/aarp-magazine-pitching-tips-needed\/\" 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":2,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205],"class_list":{"0":"post-25155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-pitching","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\/25155","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=25155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41081,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25155\/revisions\/41081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}