PR News & Ragan Communications Launch Full-Day Virtual Media Pitching Conference

Heeding the call to provide a day of practical tactics and strategies for pitching story ideas and getting positive media coverage, PR News and Ragan Communications have developed a one-day "virtual" conference on December 11 that will take PR professionals to the next level of media relations without having to leave their offices.

Rockville, MD (PRWEB) November 15, 2008 -- Heeding the call to provide a day of practical tactics and strategies for pitching story ideas and getting positive media coverage, PR News and Ragan Communications have developed a one-day "virtual" conference on December 11 that will take PR professionals to the next level of media relations without having to leave their offices.

Register for the virtual conference here (http://www.prnewsonline.com/conferences/raganconference.html).

The "Perfect Pitch" conference is an online, one-day program designed for PR teams of all sizes to hear what's working with journalists, what's not working and how to penetrate the wall of the blogosphere so messages can be heard. With 2009 around the corner, the Perfect Pitch is timed to get media relations teams in gear to get ink and raise the exposure of their brands.

Among the speakers at the December 11 virtual conference are Don Clark of the Wall Street Journal; Steven Gray of Time, Charlie Caudill, former CNN producer; Kevin Allen of the Chicago Sun-Times; Richard Laermer, of the Bad Pitch Blog;, Seth Arenstein of CableFAX Daily; Mark Ragan of Ragan Communications; Courtney Barnes of PR News; and Brian Solis of FutureWorks.

The one-day conference is divided into roughly one-hour segments. Viewers log on to a Web site to view the conference and listen to the speakers. Among the sessions are "What journalists really want;" Getting ink in the blogosphere," "It's called earned media for a reason"; and "What you need to know about today's journalists and how to pitch them".

"This is a very practical way to get your team trained on the proven strategies and brass tacks to get positive media coverage," says Diane Schwartz, vice president and group publisher of PR News. "We're excited to be partnering with Ragan Communications to bring the hottest issues to the fore in this highly-interactive forum."

Register for the virtual conference here (http://www.prnewsonline.com/conferences/raganconference.html).

The unique one-day conference is designed for companies to attend from one location, such as their conference room, at one low registration rate.

Mark Ragan, CEO of Ragan Communications, says, "Nobody else has done this: PR News and Ragan are bringing PR professionals a hard-hitting, practical seminar on how to become the first person reporters under the gun go to. And we're bringing it right to their work desks. I think they'll love the convenience and the money they save."

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About Ragan Communications

Ragan Communications is a Chicago company that for forty years has given expert advice on corporate, association, and government communications to tens of thousands of corporate editors, communications executives, and PR professionals. Ragan pioneered the world's first daily news site for internal and external organizational communicators, www.ragan.com. A second Ragan social and professional networking site for communications professionals, www.myragan.com, now boasts more than 14,000 members.

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