Getting Ink Requests

Freelance Plug: Suzi Dixon

Suzi Dixon is a freelance journalist specialising in beauty, hair, make-up, spas and travel. She is interested in receiving product news and press releases by email, and in new freelance commissions. You can find out more about her at her website here, or contact her by email here.

 

New 101 Courses

Morning All,

The:101 is launching some new PR masterclasses this summer in London, costing just £99 per person. We're also offering bespoke training workshops this summer from just £75 per person.

Our Nationals and Broadcast workshop is a guide for PR and marketing execs who want to pitch to national print and broadcast journalists.The course looks at practical techniques for selling news and features, covering business and consumer stories.

Our Journo:101 workshop is a practical guide to building good working relationships with key journalists, looking at how to identify, contact and develop relationships with business and consumer journalists.

Both workshops are led by experienced journalists with years of national print and TV experience, and will provide you with great insights and lots of inside tips on scoring coverage for your clients or your business. There will be plenty of interactive exercises, Q&A sessions, role play and constructive feedback on your pitches.

If you're interested in joining us or in any of our training services, you can find out more about the courses at the:101 website here.

Anne-Marie O'Leary

Anne-Marie O'Leary is a former features editor/acting deputy editor at Pregnancy & birth magazine, currently working as a freelance health, parenting and general women's lifestyle writer/editor.

Anne-Marie has written for titles including the Daily Telegraph, the FT, Eve, Zest, More, Mother & baby, Pregnancy & birth, You and Your Wedding, Healthy, Boots Health & Beauty, Healthy and Health & Fitness, among others and contributed to ukfamily.co.uk and Yourfamily.org.uk.

She is available for freelance commissions and shifts and can be contacted by email 

Georgina Horton

Georgina Horton is an experienced journalist who runs Scribblers, a news and features agency, which has a reputation second-to-none for finding the most poignant, uplifting human interest stories. More importantly, it has the best contacts in the business enabling it to place these stories in a range of top selling newspapers and magazines.

If you have a story you think could be of interest, please discuss it with one of our experienced journalists.

Call us in confidence on 0800 0323723 or visit our website.

Who knows, your story or experiences, may be worth good money!

If we think it has potential, one of our executives or feature writers will talk you through it and then interview you, ensuring the finished product captures the essence of your situation.

Sue Jackson

Sue Jackson is a freelance journalist writing for a number of magazines, including Nursing Standard, Dogs Today, Classic Boat, No Panic!, Brides in Cornwall. She is also a regular contributor to Cornwall Today.

Sue writes just about anything - health, antiques, features, food, business and regular walks. To find out more about her, you can visit her blog here, or she can be contacted by email.

Nationals and Broadcast Workshop 14/1

We have two spots available on next week's 101 nationals&broadcast workshop in London, due to cancellations, which we're offering at £100 each. The course is on the 14th January, from 10am to 5pm.

If you're interested, please contact me by email - first come, first served.

This is a one-day course for PR execs, marketing people and small businesses who want to increase coverage in the national press and broadcast media. The course looks at practical techniques for selling news and features to national media, covering consumer and business stories.

Experienced journalists will discuss the practicalities of pitching - who to contact, when to get in touch, what to say - and also some techniques for increasing the success rate of pitches by tailoring stories for different audiences, using the news agenda and working with case histories and third parties.

Our trainers have experience of working with the likes of GMTV, This Morning, BBC News, News of the World, Guardian, Telegraph, FT and a wide range of consumer magazines and websites.  There will be lots of great advice, role plays and the chance to test out your techniques.

You can also find out more at the:101 website.  

Welcome Back!

Just a quick note to say Happy New Year to all our subscribers. We're only just getting back into the swing of things and it's COLD!! So, apologies if it's a bit light this week.

Getting Ink Requests has had a fantastic 2008 - we now have over 3,000 subscribers reading the RSS feed and email every day, plus our blog readers and Twitter followers. Journalists are telling us that they are getting great stories and contacts through the list.

Please do let friends and colleagues know about us - Getting Ink Requests is a great way to find out about media opportunities without the cost of a subscription to an online database, and it's also the perfect way to find out about journalists who cover your clients or your own business.

Thanks all, and here's to a successful 2009.

Sally

Bruna Zanelli

Bruna Zanelli is a freelance journalist specialising in celebrity interviews. She has extensive knowledge of the Irish music scene and writes regularly for the Irish Post. Bruna has written for most of the leading magazines and nationals and can be contacted by email at runazanelli@aol.com or through her website at  www.brunazanelli.com

Norman Miller

Norman Miller  is an award-winning writer covering travel, food & drink, arts and property - so plenty of angles he can cover!

Current outlets include The Times and Sunday Times, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily and Sunday Express and Waitrose Food Illustrated. Norman also contributes regularly to Time Out's London guides for shopping and bars.

If you'd like to get in touch re any ideas, please email:  or visit Norman's website.

Norman Miller

Norman Miller  is an award-winning writer covering travel, food & drink, arts and property - so plenty of angles he can cover!

Current outlets include The Times and Sunday Times, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily and Sunday Express and Waitrose Food Illustrated. Norman also contributes regularly to Time Out's London guides for shopping and bars.

If you'd like to get in touch re any ideas, please email:  or visit Norman's website.