HARO Profile

Ojala, Marydee, Online

HELP A REPORTER OUT

Have you ever read a newspaper article and wondered how the writer found just the right person to comment on an obscure topic? Perhaps it was a magazine article in which the author included quotes that were so incredibly insightful, you marveled at both the perspicacity of the people quoted and the ability of the author to obtain them for an interview. What about a radio interview on a public interest subject? How did the writer/ interviewer find someone who was such a perfect fit to the topic? Where did that pithy quote come from? How large a network does this reporter have, anyway? Surely the interviewee can't always be a friend, or even a friend of a friend. …

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Publication information: Article title: HARO Profile. Contributors: Ojala, Marydee - Author. Magazine title: Online. Volume: 34. Issue: 4 Publication date: July/August 2010. Page number: 43+. © 2009 Information Today, Inc. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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