Media Pitching Ideas & Examples

September 17, 2026

Um, embrace imperfection

Advice from a master media trainer for the AI age: Today’s audiences value authenticity over polish.

September 10, 2026

I got ahead by…using email?

AI gives you a similar career opening.

September 3, 2026

Perception trumps reality w/ AI writing

Perception IS reality in our business.

August 27, 2026

Pitch the headshot

Here is an almost sentence-by-sentence guide to writing a journalist-first pitch.

August 19, 2026

Bad pitching’s good business model

AI-generated pitches will keep multiplying.

August 12, 2026

She let Gmail write me back and I could tell

Use our “W-AI-T” mantra before AI writes your next pitch.

August 5, 2026

Your follow-up needs a new reason to exist

Find a new asset that could save an overworked journalist time or make your story easier for them to choose.

July 30, 2026

The most honest sign I saw in Norway

I couldn’t take my eyes off it. And it occurred to me that pitch writing would benefit from the same approach.

July 23, 2026

AI might have kept me from writing this line

When it comes to core deliverables, writing your own first draft pays off in the long run.

July 16, 2026

Dissecting a remarkably positive WSJ story

Here is what differentiated Costco from competitors who are probably bummed they were left out of the piece.

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