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Topic: Do you tell sources "This is just a pitch"?
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| ItsAMysteryNY | Posted – 8/10/2007 9:44:13 AM | show profile | email poster I recently lined up sources for a piece I'm pitching to one of the Seven Sisters. It got preliminary interest, but no commitment and the editor wants more info. I'm thrilled nonetheless, BUT.... One source was very very put off by my being honest and saying this was for a pitch, that the editor was interested but needed to know more, etc. To me it seems better to be honest rather than say this is for X magazine and then have it turn up in Y magazine, but he didn't see it that way and told me I was "wasting his time" and I could get the info I needed from the press release anyway. Hello, I need HUMAN quotes, particularly for a major magazine. How do you deal with sources like this? The main source is amenable. He's in NYC, I'm not, so I may end up going to meet him F2F if that's do-able or just have a few long phone conversations. Anyone here who remembers their first big break and how they worked to make it work, I'd love your input. Do the magazines make their own photo arrangements? Right now I'm concerned about text. |
