How to Pitch Me

What I actually want in a pitch

A tech reporter walks through the three things that make them open an email — and the one that makes them delete it.

The follow-up that works (and the one that doesn’t)

One good follow-up can revive a dead pitch. Three bad ones will get you blocked.

How to Pitch Walter Thompson

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How to Pitch Robin Wauters

Robin is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tech.eu.

How to Pitch Dan Cooper

Daniel Cooper is UK-based Associate Editor for Engadget.

How to Pitch Jacob Weindling

Jacob Weindling is the Media Editor of Paste Magazine.

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How to Pitch Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney is the VP of Communications and Research for Valimail, a San Francisco-based technology company enabling email you can trust. He’s also the founder of tinywords, a daily journal of haiku and micropoetry. At Valimail, he manages the company’s research, communications, and content strategies, and has worked with the company from seed stage to Series C, overseeing growth in coverage from one mention a month to over 40 news stories/month. Dylan is the founder of Tweney Media, a content-centric communications agency, whose clients have included Samsung, Korn Ferry International, Upwork, YL Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of VentureBeat (2011-2015) and a senior editor at Wired (2007-2011). He’s been writing, editing, and publishing professionally for over two decades.

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How to Pitch Aly Walansky

Aly Walansky is a freelance lifestyles writer based in New York City.