public relations – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg public relations – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Some Thoughts on Bloggers and Public Relations http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/some-thoughts-on-bloggers-and-public-relations/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/some-thoughts-on-bloggers-and-public-relations/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 02:50:48 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=2266 This weekend at a food blogging conference there was a panel titled “PR 101.” There were two public relations professionals, a food reporter/editor and a cookbook editor on the panel. The latter two panelists were engaging, articulate speakers with great information to provide the room full of bloggers about the different types of pitches that we can develop to help advance our careers as writers,  such as pitching a story to a newspaper editor or a cookbook proposal to a publishing house. I thought that part of the panel was fantastic but I had a little bit of difficulty swallowing the presentation that the public relations professionals that preceded them delivered. Because I’ve spent the past five years of my career working in public relations and have been blogging for three I have quite a lot to say about the relationship between publicist + blogger. It’s a topic I don’t often delve into here because I have some pretty strong opinions as someone who sends and receives pitches in equal measure. However, since the topic was covered at a food conference and this is a food blog, I think I just found my excuse. Three years ago when my coworkers discovered […]

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