This kind of seeking favours is not limited to small agencies. Even small newspapers/magazines also indulge in it. This is where a professional PR advise come into picture. It is our duty to weed out the unwanted and advise managements on the right medium for the right occasion. If managements can decide and handle media, they do not need PR!
The moot question here was whether we need to invite news agencies or not and by news agecies we mean just PTI, UNI, Bloomberg, Reuters, Dow Jones, Newswire 18 and now UTV Newswire. And even these agencies do not come for everything and anything.
Cheers
BNK
B N KumarPresident
Concept PR - "Agency of the Year" award winner from PR Council of India
On 20/05/2008, rajeshwari iyer <raji_iyer2002@yahoo.co.in > wrote:
srinivasan,sorry i beg to differ here. There are some small wires....(not sure if they are one in real terms) who attend PC even without an invitation just to drink, have dinner and pick up giftsThey come to know about the happenings thru' one of their media friends. Added to that they try talking to client directly asking for some more favors...may be the reason is this to avoid, when they cannot do much about the pitch of events, there is no point in just asking them to come for meetings.Dependiing upon the necessity of the PC, the client is at his disposal to selelct the media.Conventional PCs doesnt work out anymore.regrr iyer
Bobby Shivyana <yanbab2002@yahoo.com > wrote:Dear members,
In my view, it is not ignorance of the reach and spread of news by the agencies. It is not a PR strategy either. It appears to be a cheap technique of willfully ignoring the news agencies for certain petty reasons.
Willfully ignoring or avoiding may sometimes work out, because there is always a safety valve of 'pleading ignorance', till the very technique boomerangs.
Regards,
Y. Babji
Hyderabad
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From: Uma Bhushan <u_bhushan@yahoo.com >
To: prpoint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:55:21 PM
Subject: Re: [prpoint] Debate: Avoiding news agencies for press conference
I am afraid this phenomenon could be attributed more to ignorance of the reach and spread of agencies than some bigtime words like strategy!One reason could be that it is difficult to trace the "clippings" arising out issuing a news through the agencies. And for PR people, clippings mean a lot! Journalists from individual newspapers and magazines are easier to followup and getting the "results" in the press the next day. Since agencies do not fulfil this criteria, they may not be high up on the priority of PR people.I will be happy to know the feedback from colleagues in this group.Regards,Uma Bhushan
Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail. com> wrote:dear friendsI just now received a mail (appended below) from a senior journalist of a well known wire agency. I myself got surprised that some well known corporates have not invited wire agencies. As a layman, i always feeel that wire agencies provide a wider coverage. Is there any 'new strategy' in avoiding the wire agencies? I invite reaction from members.srinivasanmoderatormessage received by mequoterecently three MNCs- 2 in the mobile phone space and one in passenger car segment- had invited the Chennai media to cover their events.Curiously the companies/PR agencies decided not to invite the news agencies. However two companies decided to issue the press release to the news agencies wanting wider coverage.It is known fact that news agencies have wider coverage and can take the message across the globe.Is there any particular PR strategy to leave out news agencies? If yes, what are the advantages or the benefits of such a stragtegy?If no, what could be the negative impact of such a strategy?Members are requested to react.unquote
Uma Bhushan
Senior Lecturer, Business Communication
K J Somaiya Institute of Mangement Studies & Research
Vidyavihar, Mumbai 400 077
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