{"id":5837,"date":"2015-08-04T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:08:07","slug":"publicity-tips-find-a-reporters-email-address-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/publicity-tips-find-a-reporters-email-address-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a Reporter&#8217;s Email Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Issue #939 Aug. 4, 2015<br \/>\nPublisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>In This Issue<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Find a Reporter&#8217;s Email Address<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Hide Your Address<\/li>\n<li>Press Release Words to Ban<\/li>\n<li>Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This Week in the Hound House:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re cleaning up after a violent thunderstorm with marble-size hail swept through Wisconsin on Sunday night. No major damage, but a giant bolt of lightning struck the roof three houses away from mine and caused a bad fire. That&#8217;s one of my worst nightmares.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>1. Find a Reporter&#8217;s Email Address<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5838\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/Society-of-Professional-Journalists-Freelancer-Directory-300x80.jpg\" alt=\"Society of Professional Journalists Freelancer Directory\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to pitch a reporter, editor, broadcaster, blogger or book reviewer, but you can&#8217;t find their email address, try one of these tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Search: Type their name &#8220;+ email address&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Their company website.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spj.org\/fdb.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Society of Professional Journalists Freelance Directory.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Contact someone they&#8217;ve interviewed and ask that source for the email address. Also ask, &#8220;How did the interview go?&#8221; You might learn something interesting about the reporter.<\/li>\n<li>Call a friend who works for a PR agency and ask her to look it up in those big expensive media directories.Some of those ideas came from Brian Lang&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinessideasblog.com\/find-email-addresses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60+ Tools and Tips to Find Someone\u2019s Email Address.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Don&#8217;t Hide Your Email<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5839\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/dog-with-tin-can-telephone2-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Dog On The Phone\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re annoyed when you can&#8217;t find reporters&#8217; email addresses, you know exactly how they feel when they can&#8217;t find yours. Your email address and phone number should be everywhere:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On press releases<\/li>\n<li>Under the Contact Info tab on your LinkedIn profile and &#8220;Advice for Contacting&#8221; near the bottom of your profile. I&#8217;ll bet 9 out of 10 people don&#8217;t include this.<\/li>\n<li>On every page of your website. Yes, every page.<\/li>\n<li>In author resource boxes at the end of articles and guest blog posts, assuming you want calls (why wouldn&#8217;t you?).<\/li>\n<li>On a &#8220;Contact Information&#8221; sheet in your media kit. Include links to your social media profiles.If you missed the live webinar I hosted yesterday with Joel Friedlander on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VDqYgz-Bx0o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Indie Author&#8217;s Guide to a Killer Media Kit,&#8221;<\/a> you can watch it, and take advantage of our special offer on a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BookDesignTemplates.com\/mediakit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 Media Kit Templates<\/a> I created that will shave weeks off the tedious chore of creating your own kit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Press Release Words to Ban<\/h3>\n<p>Stop &#8220;announcing&#8221; things when you write a press release. It sounds stilted.<\/p>\n<p>Enough already with being &#8220;excited&#8221; about your new product or book.<\/p>\n<p>And my skin crawls when I hear the word &#8220;awesome.&#8221; Put it in a B.S. quote in your press release and I&#8217;ll hit &#8220;Delete.&#8221; Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragan.com\/Main\/Articles\/Awesome_The_most_overused_word_in_English__42972.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">45 alternatives to this overused word<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tech journalist Robin Wauters has his own list of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/08\/01\/10-words-i-would-love-to-see-banned-from-press-releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Words I Would Love to See Banned from Press Releases.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fiction Authors: I need your press releases for your book launches and other news for a special project I&#8217;m working on. If I use yours, you get a $50 coupon for products at my website. Email it to <a href=\"mailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com\">JStewart@PublicityHound.com<\/a>. I&#8217;ll reply and let you know what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Hound Video of the Week<\/h3>\n<p>Thanks to Publicity Hound Jo Steinberg of Mequon, Wis., for this video of 10 incredible scientific discoveries about dogs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/2015\/07\/30\/10-incredible-scientific-discoveries-about-dogs\/21216016\/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl28%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D-1445595651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5840 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/SCceenshot-of-dog-for-chris-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"SCceenshot of dog for chris\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n[Tweet &#8220;Find a Reporter&#8217;s Email Address #PitchingaReporter #PublicityTips&#8221;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8211; Issue #939 Aug. 4, 2015<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Find a Reporter&#8217;s Email Address<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Hide Your Address<\/li>\n<li>Press Release Words to Ban<\/li>\n<li>Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=5837\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/publicity-tips-find-a-reporters-email-address-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"rmlink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5842,"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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,72,376,371,375],"class_list":{"0":"post-5837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tips-of-the-week","8":"tag-haro","9":"tag-media-leads","10":"tag-media-templates","11":"tag-media-trends","12":"tag-pitchingthemedia","13":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/Pinterest-slide-for-Tips-of-Week-2015Aug4.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/Pinterest-slide-for-Tips-of-Week-2015Aug4.jpg","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\/5837","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=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}