{"id":4920,"date":"2009-10-20T07:24:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T07:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:51:20","slug":"pr-pros-how-would-you-deal-with-an-editor-on-a-power-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/pr-pros-how-would-you-deal-with-an-editor-on-a-power-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"PR pros, how would you deal with an editor on a power-trip?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4924\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 12px;margin-right: 12px\" title=\"thumbsdown2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/thumbsdown2.jpg\" alt=\"thumbsdown2\" width=\"200\" height=\"308\" \/>Ivy Mendoza of\u00a0Manila, Philippines writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My small PR firm just got an account that needs a lot of exposure in the lifestyle sections. The previous PR person had been sacked due to some anomalies which she was supposed to have committed while conniving\u00a0with the client&#8217;s marketing department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To neutralize the situation, the marketing people have gradually been replaced, the marketing manager was asked to resign, and the contract of the old PR consultant was no longer renewed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem is that the previous PR person has already started badmouthing the client to editors who she is very close to. One particular editor of a very highly-circulated newspaper has already declared that our client&#8217;s press releases will not see print in her section anymore. They liked the old PR person and they believed everything that person said about the\u00a0client.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The client (not us, the PR firm) wants us to start on a clean slate,\u00a0so they made an effort to appease this particular editor by setting up a meeting. But the editor flat out refused to meet with them and directly said that she cannot help the client anymore as far as press releases are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What should we do? Her paper and her section are very important for our client because of its target readership and circulation. I advised the client to let the editor\u00a0&#8216;thaw&#8217; first and just use other sections of the same newspaper (Business, Entertainment, etc.) in the meantime. Would you have other tips for me as far as &#8216;power tripping&#8217; media is concerned?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks much and I will really appreciate your help!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivy Mendoza of\u00a0Manila, Philippines writes: &#8220;My small PR firm just got an account that needs a lot of exposure in the lifestyle sections. The previous PR person had been sacked due to some anomalies which she was supposed to have committed while conniving\u00a0with the client&#8217;s marketing department. &#8220;To neutralize the situation, the marketing people have\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/pr-pros-how-would-you-deal-with-an-editor-on-a-power-trip\/\" 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":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[630,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-4920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-media-bias","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\/4920","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=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42024,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/42024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}