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Category: PR Fundamentals

Media Relations

TL;DR: The discipline of building and maintaining productive relationships with journalists and editors.

What is Media Relations?

Media relations is the discipline of building and maintaining productive relationships with journalists, editors, and producers — pitching stories, providing expert sources, managing embargoes, and acting as a credible long-term partner. It's the engine that produces earned media. Media relations is Crackle PR's core motion — senior operators with 15+ year reporter relationships, not junior AEs learning on retainer — because the quality of the pitcher is the single biggest variable in whether coverage happens.

Media Relations Service

Related terms

  • Earned Media — Editorial coverage of your brand in third-party publications you didn't pay for.
  • Pitching — The craft of proposing story ideas to journalists in a way that earns coverage.
  • Embargo — An agreement with reporters to receive news early in exchange for publishing on a set date and time.