Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Newswise Submission Process Tutorial
This is a brief video tutorial for our newest members on how to upload your submissions to Newswise.
This is a brief video tutorial for our newest members on how to upload your submissions to Newswise.
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Watch a short video with instructions and details for using the Newswise Expert Directory and integrating your expert profiles with Expert Pitch
One of the things we like to do to help our contributing members is to help discover interesting news items that might have been overlooked in the effort to promote the latest happenings at an organization. This can happen. It’s understandable that you want to promote your faculty member or researcher who was published in a “prestigious” journal or presented findings at a scientific meeting. We understand that you need to appease your stakeholders as you reach out to your community. However, when it comes to reaching out to the general media via our wires, focusing on the honor can sometimes cloud over what really gets journalists’ attention: the noteworthy news item. So how can you transform the announcement or a light feature into a research-results type article when you submit your news on Newswise? Perhaps all it takes is a little tweaking of the headline and the description.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Newswise’s Fast Pitch is a great way to pitch your news to our reporters in a face-to-face video meeting. Here’s another success story. This time it’s from the University of Maryland Medical System.
Sometimes meeting reporters face to face is the best route for coverage. Here’s a success story of Newswise’s Fast Pitch sessions.
During the past years we have seen an increase in demand for experts on several topics. Reporters are looking for subject matter experts that can provide quotes, interviews, and comment on breaking news events. How can you get on board with this trend? Give your story a new angle by pitching your expert.
In a recent analysis of 130 releases, we’ve found that articles where the institution’s name were not in the headline received 20 percent more views than those that had the institute’s name in them.
One article. One Newswise daily wire. 40,688 hits, 518 facebook shares, and 82 comments. Boom. Here’s the story: a Newswise article went viral last month after being shared by a major social media influencer. A Penn State College of Medicine article, “Medicaid Waivers Help Parents of Children with Autism Stay in the Workforce,” was distributed in the Newswise wires, and a freelancer at Autism Speaks shared it on the organization’s Facebook page.
Get to know these reporters better, and hear from the horse’s mouth how you can pitch more effectively.