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Top Brush-offs Journalists Give PRs

By Catherine Bayfield

 

You’ve got to be thick skinned when you work in PR and your job involves selling-in stories. This is our bread and butter – speaking to TV, radio and online journalists on a daily basis. Given a lot of us WERE broadcast journalists ourselves, in a previous career, we do understand what it takes to get a story on air. But that doesn’t stop us getting an earful every now and then! Here are some of the top brush-offs we get from broadcast journalists:

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