In the process of researching something totally unrelated to this topic I stumbled upon wunderkind Peter Shankman’s site, Help a Reporter.com. Delighted with his foresight and grasp, I was sidetracked there until deciding to put the other research on hold.

Peter’s brainchild began as a Facebook group, but soon outgrew the site. The Help a Reporter list unites specialists of any area and the press. Businesses need PR and the press needs sources to write about. Shankman created a site where we sign up to receive daily emails filled with reporters looking for sources. The results: we gain as much “help” as the reporters.

I move simultaneously between the worlds of writing and photography, and Peter’s site is ideal for both. If you are looking for ways to promote your business you must sign up with this list.

Did I mention it’s FREE? But donations are welcome to various charities. And there is only one rule, in Peter's own words:

“This is really the only thing I ask: By joining this list, just promise me and yourself that you'll ask yourself before you send a response: Is this response really on target? Is this response really going to help the journalist, or is this just a BS way for me to get my client in front of the reporter? If you have to think for more than three seconds, chances are, you shouldn't send the response. In the end, we could probably all stand to do this a bit more, huh?"

For Getting Press if You Are a Source:

http://www.helpareporter.com/

For Writers Seeking Sources:

http://www.helpareporter.com/press/

Founder Peter Shankman

About Peter: http://shankman.com/

COE, Entrepreneur, Adventurist