http://www.valleyprblog.com/pitching/pitching-your-story-to-krap-tv/ A (dry heated) group blog from Phoenix, Arizona on public relations, marketing and social media Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:48:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.valleyprblog.com/pitching/pitching-your-story-to-krap-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-4243 Jim Veihdeffer Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:37:20 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1161#comment-4243 KNTS? KNTS?

]]> http://www.valleyprblog.com/pitching/pitching-your-story-to-krap-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-3045 Charlotte Risch Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:28:33 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1161#comment-3045 What a fascinating and awesome session. This is why I don't get too hurt if a story pitch isn't picked up. As I like to do a lot here, I'll refer back to my days working in TV. As a promotion/news topical producer, I'd sit in on an assignment meeting and hear 30 pitches for stories from reporters, the ND, assignment desk and producer. I would always give my two cents about stories that were promotable and some producers and reporters got that and fought for some over others, but in the end and in those few hours till the newscast, that rundown of stories is usually switched and changed and modified dozens of times. So that promotable "blogger pedophile" story sometimes get dropped...or made into a 10 second reader. Its what happens and sometimes my clients get it when their story doesn't run or is cut. I think thats because I try very hard to continuosly educate and remind them of how newsrooms work. I would love, though, to job shadow or sit in on an Arizona Republic or other print paper newsroom for a few days to see how their lives are. Probably similiar? What a fascinating and awesome session. This is why I don’t get too hurt if a story pitch isn’t picked up. As I like to do a lot here, I’ll refer back to my days working in TV. As a promotion/news topical producer, I’d sit in on an assignment meeting and hear 30 pitches for stories from reporters, the ND, assignment desk and producer. I would always give my two cents about stories that were promotable and some producers and reporters got that and fought for some over others, but in the end and in those few hours till the newscast, that rundown of stories is usually switched and changed and modified dozens of times. So that promotable “blogger pedophile” story sometimes get dropped…or made into a 10 second reader.
Its what happens and sometimes my clients get it when their story doesn’t run or is cut. I think thats because I try very hard to continuosly educate and remind them of how newsrooms work. I would love, though, to job shadow or sit in on an Arizona Republic or other print paper newsroom for a few days to see how their lives are. Probably similiar?

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