It doesn’t matter if your pitch is well-written and your story is exciting. If you aren’t meeting the reporter’s and publication’s needs, you won’t get coverage. But how can you make your pitch stand out from the 38,000 emails top-tier reporters receive every year? Use editorial calendars to target your pitching efforts. Cision’s Anna Marevska will give you an in-depth look at how editorial calendars can shape your media relations strategy and improve its effectiveness. Anna will show you how to: - Uncover opportunities by searching editorial calendars - Target key media outlets based on scheduling information - Plan ahead with access to lead times and deadlines - Connect with media contacts at the right time

1. Understanding Editorial Calendars

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3. Agenda
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• Editorial Calendar Overview
• Searching for Upcoming Opportunities
• Understanding the Editorial Calendar Details
• Finding Opportunities from Your Key Media
Outlets
• Tips for Strategic Opportunities Planning
• Q&A

4. What are Editorial Calendars?
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• Editorial calendars are yearly coverage schedules used to plan advertising
campaigns and editorial pitching efforts.
• Editorial calendar opportunities are the themes listed on an editorial
calendar. Opportunities tell you what topics or specific stories will be
running, and what section of the newspaper, magazine or website the
topic or story will be featured in.
• Editorial calendar opportunities are recruited directly from the outlet and
all opportunities are listed with the exact opportunity description
provided by the outlet. Additionally, CisionPoint lists a specific contact for
each opportunity, along with their preferred contact information.
• Cision’s Editorial Calendar Season typically runs from September though
end of March.

5. Tips for Strategic Opportunities Planning
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1. Be specific. When running searches, choose topics and regions that are
just right.
2. Know the outlets to focus on. The right kind of editorial-calendar
research gives you a solid idea of exactly where to go with your story.
First, look to the outlets that are the most widely followed in your
industry. Second, look for the perfect fit with story ideas and angles
listed in the editorial calendars. Third, seek out opportunities where you
can give a publication the lead for its major annual trend or round-up
story.
3. Be timely. Make sure you don’t miss your deadlines. Outlets are not
created equally—magazines may plan features six months in advance,
while newspapers may accept features a week before publication.

6. Tips for Strategic Opportunities Planning
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4. Be prepared. It doesn’t hurt to identify the opportunity you’re pitching by
date and description when sending press releases. If you introduce the
opportunity at the outset, an editor can easily see the relevance in your
correspondence.
5. Be mindful. Just because your dream outlet has an opportunity that fits
your pitch doesn’t mean it’s an occasion to ignore pitching preferences. If
an editor prefers to be contacted in a certain medium, method or
timeframe, the perfect pitch may go unnoticed.
6. Stay on top of the story. Editorial calendars are dynamic, living
documents. The immediacy and flexibility of social media – blogs and fast-
breaking events shaped by Twitter and Facebook – can affect longer-lead
publications’ editorial plans.

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