Title: Timing Is Everything in a News Cycle
Headings: Timing Is Everything in a News Cycle
Timing Is Everything in a News Cycle
What is a news cycle and when should I contact a journalist?
Newspapers
Blogs
TV Stations
Radio Stations
How and When to Break Your Story
Reaching Journalists After 6:00 P.M.

Content: They might post three times a day or once every month. In general, blogs cover evergreen topics with tips, advice, and other useful information. TV Stations
TV news operates day and night, and not just in regard to the national 24-hour cable networks like CNN and MSNBC. Local television stations always have a morning news show, a noon news show, a 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. show, and a 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. show. Local TV news has the most amount of airtime and therefore is the easiest venue to receive news coverage. Radio Stations
Radio was around before the advent of TV and is still going strong, in part because of "drive time," when commuters are stuck in their cars. Radio will break a story any time of the day because they have 24 hours of airtime to fill, each and every day. Whether a radio station plays classical music or only broadcasts local news they all subscribe to the Associated Press, which transmits stories 24/7. As a matter of fact, the events of 9/11 broke over a local New York City radio station that had a traffic helicopter in the air near what became Ground Zero. How and When to Break Your Story
The more time-sensitive a story is, the more you need to think about the news cycle and whom to talk to first.