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Journalists research, write, edit, proofread and file news stories, features and articles.

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I became a journalist because I loved to write, and getting a journalism degree and working at a newspaper and then magazines seemed the best way to become a writer. I love elements of journalism such as gathering information and interviewing people, which I’m very good at. But while I have won many journalism awards and written hundreds of journalism articles, I consider myself a writer rather than a journalist. By that I mean I write and have written many different types of things — humor columns, essays, material for companies, scripts, and novels. When I am writing those things, I am not a journalist. I still do many journalistic pieces, but primarily I think of myself as a storyteller. Sometimes journalism is the best way to tell a story, and somethings other types of writing can communicate a story better. Since I have been a freelance writer for many years, I can be many different types of writers during the same day — a journalist, a copywriter, a novelist, an essayist. They are all worthwhile and they are all different. The only thing, as a writer who wears many hats, is to understand the objective of any type of writing, and always act with honesty and integrity.

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25% of journalists prefer to be pitched between 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.

This means media pitches require personalized outreach and research beforehand in order to understand what a journalist or influencer cares about, writes on and how you can help contribute to their beat. Remember: great media pitches play on the idea of reciprocity.

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