Here are six sure - fire ways to get the attention of editors, based on my experience of regularly
pitching to editors on The Guardian as a contributing blogger (and receiving a ton of pitches from PR agents and bloggers).
Here are six sure - fire ways to get the attention of editors, based on my experience of regularly
pitching to editors on The Guardian as a contributing blogger (and receiving a ton of pitches from PR
Each group meets regularly to discuss and critique member projects at all stages — from
pitching to editors to final revisions.
For Chicago Parent, email queries or
pitches to Editor Tamara L. O'Shaughnessy at [email protected] Please include your phone number, address and email.
welcomes him home from a life of travel, Mike is restless, angry, humiliated — made more so when
his pitches to editors at other publications seeking freelance assignments come up empty.
What can you expect when
you pitch to an editor of an online publication?
Cummings helped
him pitch it to an editor, who was thrilled to publish him.
Prepare a portfolio of about 5 - 10 (750 -1000-word) bylined articles with different hooks / angles that you can use to
pitch to editors of magazines, websites, and blogs.
Some authors sell books on proposal (with or without a writing sample), or they use the synopsis to be an initial outline of the story idea (a guide post), or an effective synopsis brief can be a part of a solid query letter or made into a quick
pitch to an editor or agent.
You can deliver the perfect
pitch to an editor who pretty much poaches your idea and assigns it to their regular well of «trusted writers», aka their buddies.
I had no idea how to think up good travel stories, or how to
pitch to editors.
Generates unique, interesting storyline
pitches to editor, writes and researches reviews and feature stories with aggressive deadlines.
Participated in brainstorming sessions, writing of copy and
pitches to editors, layout and graphics work and media planning as well as coordination of schedules and deadlines, planning and organizing client events and general office administration duties.
Not exact matches
Along with Harris, the two
pitched the idea of a standalone political news and commentary site
to the Washington Post in 2006 but were ultimately disillusioned with the response, so they took the idea
to Allbritton — and eventually hired more than a few senior reporters and
editors away from both the Washington Post and other newspapers.
In the end, the winners will get
to pitch their concept
to the
editors of Entrepreneur.com, the largest and most respected online community for American innovation and business creation.
In this edition of the CB Elevator
Pitch,
editor James Cowan argues that companies need
to work harder
to recruit women for boards of directors.
Finally, use our friend Google
to find the email of an
editor at your intended publication and «
pitch» them on your idea.
In this edition of the CB Elevator
Pitch,
editor - in - chief James Cowan suggests companies need
to take a hard look at the number of meetings employees are having — or being forced
to attend.
When
pitching to journalists, too many startups that are new
to PR try
to reach out
to the top writer or
editor or the «face» of a publication.
Pitch - the -
editor sessions will enable you
to get directly in front of Entrepreneur,
to help hone how you talk about your company.
For the sixth year running, Entrepreneur's Growth Conference will address everything from hands on tools for success
to opportunities
to pitch editors your business
to be featured in Entrepreneur.
If your industry appears in national news,
pitch topic ideas
to the
editors of online and print publications, or
to the news director at broadcast media.
Entrepreneur's
editor in chief, Jason Feifer, talks with Jessica Abo about his career path and how
to get press
to bite on your
pitch.
The DIY - approach is
to identify publishers on which you'd like
to acquire brand mentions, then identify journalists and
editors at each publication, then contact them
to make your
pitch.
Whether you're
pitching your proposal
to agents, waiting as your agent
pitches your proposal
to publishers, or standing by as
editors and designers and marketing departments work their magic on your manuscript, the process is long and the wait can be frustrating.
«
Pitch the Press» is a unique opportunity for exhibitors to pitch their products to a group of editors and reporters looking for the most unique and innovative new products to be showcased at the International Restaurant & Foodservice Show of New
Pitch the Press» is a unique opportunity for exhibitors
to pitch their products to a group of editors and reporters looking for the most unique and innovative new products to be showcased at the International Restaurant & Foodservice Show of New
pitch their products
to a group of
editors and reporters looking for the most unique and innovative new products
to be showcased at the International Restaurant & Foodservice Show of New York.
Ten exhibitors were chosen by a panel of media judges
to Pitch the Press, and present their new product or service
to editors, buyers, restaurateurs and others.
Every writer has stories in the back of their brain they plan
to write eventually if they can find a gap between deadlines, or if an
editor didn't stonewall the
pitch, or if a hook would finally present itself.
But he was beginning
to see another side of the game as sports
editor of the school newspaper, appropriately named The
Pitch.
A short
pitch to the news or features
editor with a release about you attached will likely reap rewards.
Every day my e-mail inbox, and those of MomsTeam's
editors, are flooded with press releases, meeting invitations, and
pitches from public relations professionals and companies wanting
to tell us more about a new product or service being marketed
to sports parents and youth athletes.
I spoke
to an
editor of a regional but largish paper — trying
to pitch the idea of mommy bloggers doing good.
Having a
pitch - worthy idea was the first trick, but the real challenge was
to produce a piece that an
editor would actually choose
to run.
This document is intended
to outline what the
editors are looking for, how
to go about
pitching and writing stories and what our conditions are.
If you are in doubt who
to pitch to, the chief features
editor, Richard Webb, can forward
pitches to the most appropriate
editor.
A
pitch that conveys the promise of something original and different is more likely
to catch an
editor's eye.
During this time, I also started coming up with ideas for other venues and reading about how
to «
pitch» potential stories
to editors.
She has been freelancing full - time for more than 5 years,
pitching story ideas
to editors of publications such as I nform magazine and Chemistry World, as well as local newspapers and radio stations.
As a freelancer you frequently have
to pitch your ideas
to editors, which Carrington describes as being «quite nerve - wracking when you start off.»
«I had done a Ph.D. and had 3 years postdoctoral experience but didn't really have the confidence or contacts
to start phoning around [
to] science
editors at broadsheets
to pitch stories,» says Dr. Ananyo Bhattacharya, reporter for the science - policy newspaper Research Fortnight.
As a Health.com contributor, you'll receive story
pitches from our
editors straight
to your inbox, your byline will appear on Health.com, and you will be compensated for your work.
As someone who used
to spend hours staring at the computer screen, deleting then retyping over and over and over again the perfect «
pitch»
to editors and writers, I know how difficult it is
to be recognized in a newspaper let alone in a major magazine.
Prior
to that I spent 10 years as Entertainment
Editor at the Lawrence Journal - World and seven years as music / film editor at Kansas City's The
Editor at the Lawrence Journal - World and seven years as music / film
editor at Kansas City's The
editor at Kansas City's The
Pitch.
The more responsible characters treat him like a roach: when he
pitches a story about the burgeoning crisis
to an
editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, she brushes him off, and when he sticks a digital recorder in Dr. Sussman's face, the scientist scurries away.
The protagonist of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is played by his namesake Adrian Țofei — and if Țofei serves as this film's director, writer, producer, DoP,
editor, sound designer and production designer / manager, his character Adrian is also a first - time polyhyphenate filmmaker
pitching his own movie called Be My Cat, and himself trying
to get into character
to play that film's creepy romantic lead.
YouTube
editor Pitching Room put together this comparison that uses the opening monologue by Gary King (Pegg)
to show how, while he may be describing an ill - fated night in 1990, he is in fact presaging what will come
to pass when the group of friends returns
to its old stomping grounds.
Film
Editors Craig Alpert — «
Pitch Perfect 2,» «Pineapple Express» Mick Audsley — «The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,» «Dirty Pretty Things» Pablo Barbieri — «Wild Tales,» «La Antena (The Aerial)» Nadia Ben Rachid — «Timbuktu,» «Bamako» Kristina Boden — «The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,» «Cake» Mathilde Bonnefoy * — «CitizenFour,» «Run Lola Run» Julian Clarke — «Chappie,» «District 9» Douglas Crise — «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),» «Babel» Tom Cross — «Whiplash,» «Any Day Now» Jinx Godfrey — «The Theory of Everything,» «Man on Wire» Robert Grahamjones — «Brave,» «Ratatouille» Masahiro Hirakubo — «Virunga,» «The Duchess» Jarosław Kamiński — «Ida,» «Aftermath (Pokłosie)» William Kerr — «Bridesmaids,» «I Love You, Man» Nico Leunen — «Lost River,» «The Broken Circle Breakdown» Mike McCusker — «Get On Up,» «3:10
to Yuma» Tim Mertens — «Big Hero 6,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Barney Pilling — «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «An Education» David Rennie — «22 Jump Street,» «Office Space» Gary D. Roach — «American Sniper,» «Prisoners» Michael L. Sale — «We're the Millers,» «Bridesmaids» Stephen Schaffer — «Cars 2,» «WALL - E» Job ter Burg — «Borgman,» «Winter in Wartime» Peter Teschner — «St. Vincent,» «Horrible Bosses» Tara Timpone — «Friends with Kids,» «Bad Teacher»
The film, through a screenplay from Liz Hannah and Josh Singer,
pitches the battle through the eyes of the Post's publisher, Kay Graham (Streep) and
editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) as they decide whether
to move forward publishing excerpts from the leaked report about the US involvement in Vietnam prior
to the beginning of the war.
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and
editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the
To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding
pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
Film
Editors Craig Alpert — «
Pitch Perfect 2,» «Pineapple Express» Mick Audsley — «The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,» «Dirty Pretty Things» Pablo Barbieri — «Wild Tales,» «La Antena (The Aerial)» Nadia Ben Rachid — «Timbuktu,» «Bamako» Kristina Boden — «The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,» «Cake» Mathilde Bonnefoy * — «CitizenFour,» «Run Lola Run» Julian Clarke — «Chappie,» «District 9» Douglas Crise — «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),» «Babel» Tom Cross — «Whiplash,» «Any Day Now» Jinx Godfrey — «The Theory of Everything,» «Man on Wire» Robert Grahamjones — «Brave,» «Ratatouille» Masahiro Hirakubo — «Virunga,» «The Duchess» Jarosław Kamiński — «Ida,» «Aftermath (Pokłosie)» William Kerr — «Bridesmaids,» «I Love You, Man» Nico Leunen — «Lost River,» «The Broken Circle Breakdown» Mike McCusker — «Get On Up,» «3:10
to Yuma» Tim Mertens — «Big Hero 6,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Barney Pilling — «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «An Education» David Rennie — «22 Jump Street,» «Office Space» Gary D. Roach — «American Sniper,» «Prisoners» Michael L. Sale — «We're the Millers,» «Bridesmaids» Stephen Schaffer — «Cars 2,» «WALL - E» Job ter Burg — «Borgman,» «Winter in Wartime»