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Welcome to Help a Reporter Out™!
You're reading the "I AM A SOURCE" page. If you're a JOURNALIST who's LOOKING for sources, click here.
This list was originally conceived on Facebook, but since Facebook caps group emails at 1,200 people, this is the next incarnation.
Each day, you'll receive up to three emails, each with anywhere from 15-30 queries per email. They'll all be labeled with [HARO] in the subject line, for easy filtering. If you see a query you can answer, go for it! HARO really is that simple.
We built this list because a lot of our friends are reporters, and they call us all the time for sources. Rather than go through our contact lists each time, we figured we could push the requests out to people who actually have something to say.
These requests only come from reporters directly to HARO. We never take queries from that other service, we never SPAM, and we're not going to do anything with your email other than send you these reporter requests when they arrive in our in-box.
So a few things about this list: First off, yes, it's free. It takes us a few minutes each day to do this, and the good Karma is immeasurable. So we're not charging. If you really feel like sending us a donation or something, why not just send a few bucks to an animal hospital or animal rescue society somewhere. Some good places are Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, or The National Search Dog Foundation. That'll keep the good Karma flowing.
Next: This is really the only thing we ask: By joining this list, just promise us 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?
That's it. No other rules. Sometimes the journalists will request anonymity, in which case, you'll email us directly, and we'll forward. Otherwise, we'll include journalist contact info with each query.
Hey, if you're a JOURNALIST looking for sources, use this form to send us your query, and we'll post it to the list. If you want to learn a little bit more about the guy behind all this, feel free to check me out at my own website, Peter Shankman. That's it! Thanks for being here, and thanks for using Help a Reporter out! Blue skies!
- Peter Shankman
