Posted
6:50 AM
by Gene
Another way news hacks harden us and coarsen us: by treating reporting as a social assignment. There is so much of connection building and networking to
this story it should have run as a RESUME.
Or as the intrepid reporter once said:
TALK, DON'T PITCH, SAYS REPORTER
"Conversations, not pitches work best for me," said Laura Holson, west coast correspondent for The New York Times, told more than 350+ PR pros.
Laura Holson, NY Times West Coast correspondent, says pitching is too predatory.
"Pitching is too predatory [sic], we just want conversations
[emphasis added], and my editors want the same when I'm trying to sell
YOUR [emphasis added] story to them," she told the Business Wire-sponsored workshop March 27, 2001 at the Santa Monica Flying Museum.
In another world she'd be reprimanded.