Title: 3 Simple Ways to Contact the Media About a Story - wikiHow
Headings: How to Contact the Media About a Story
How to Contact the Media About a Story
Method 1
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Choosing a Media Outlet
Method 3
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Pitching Your Scoop
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Content: A serious crime, insider information on a major corporation, and uplifting stories of the human spirit all belong in major news publications. Choose to contact major media outlets if you have information on something big! Journalists are often quite busy and popular reporters get tons of tips and pitches to sort through. This process may take you a few weeks, or even months, depending on how busy the news outlet is and how long the story will take to investigate or report on. A breaking story about a child kidnapping deserves to be on a major media outlet. However, smaller, area-specific stories, like mall openings and fundraisers, are more likely to be picked up by local organizations. You can contact multiple news outlets at once. There’s nothing wrong with reaching out to multiple organizations with the same story. {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/thumb\/c\/ce\/Contact-the-Media-About-a-Story-Step-2.jpg\/v4-460px-Contact-the-Media-About-a-Story-Step-2.jpg","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/c\/ce\/Contact-the-Media-About-a-Story-Step-2.jpg\/aid11642952-v4-728px-Contact-the-Media-About-a-Story-Step-2.jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":345,"bigWidth":728,"bigHeight":546,"licensing":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\"><p>\u00a9 2021 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws.