Once you have established a professional relationship with a member of the media, there are proven steps you can take to maintain and grow it. The ultimate goal with any media relationship is to find a permanent, recurring place in that reporter's Rolodex. You want to prove that you are a reliable, trustworthy source of valuable information … one that the reporter comes back to again and again.
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