[Journalists] Peter Shankman's Reporter/Source-Match Resource

[Everett Gavel]

Hello,

I thought this might benefit some here.  I've found it 
a worthy resource. Details are below.

To Your Success!
Everett
www.everettgavel.com


Sharing with you today a great resource.  You'll want 
to tell the
PR people, marketers, publicists, editors, and 
journalists you work
with about it too, because it's all about them and 
their needs.

If you're not already using www.helpareporter.com, 
check it out.
It's a service much like that other one that connects 
PR people and
journalists looking for sources, but this one is free. 
It used to
be on Facebook, but grew too large for it.  Once you 
subscribe, you
receive about three (sometimes two, no more than four, 
ever) emails
a day with reporter, editor and freelance writer 
queries, written
so you can quickly and easily scan the topics for 
relevance.

If the topics do not apply to you or your clients, just 
hit delete.
 If they do, you may contact the reporter or editor 
directly, as
instructed.

Note that Peter Shankman, the list facilitator, is very 
strict
about helping out these reporters.  Respond only if 
your
information (or your client's info) is relevant and on 
target.  If
not,  and you send non-relevant emails more than once, 
you'll get
bumped off the list.  Quickly.  I've seen it happen. 
He's a big
believer in good Karma, and he's also quite funny, and 
tends to
also include a link to a fun site, or a funny story 
about his day
in the emails. It's a nice refreshing change from the 
boring,
non-funny emails we usually deal with.

Reporters can post queries at 
www.helpareporter.com/press, and
sources can sign up at www.helpareporter.com - As I 
said, it's
free. Peter asks that if you find it useful, then you 
make a
donation to any animal rescue charity or animal 
hospital.

You can forward the queries to others who are a fit, 
but do not
post any queries (or the editor/reporter contact info) 
on any blogs
or public websites.  I received permission from Peter 
to send you
this note, since this is a private group and I'm 
helping to spread
the word to both subscribers and media to sign up.

www.helpareporter.com - The more people who use it, the 
better it
becomes.