Emmy award-winning reporter

Publicity isn't bought.
It's earned.

You don't need a big PR firm — including mine — to get massive coverage. You need to stop thinking like an advertiser and start thinking like a reporter. I spent twenty years being one.

Jeff Crilley
Jeff Crilley
Author, Free Publicity · Dallas, TX
Emmy
Award winner
20 yr
In the newsroom
60k +
Books sold

How it works

Three steps · no agency required
  1. Make something newsworthy

    Great stories have one or more of the following qualities: they are timely, they impact people, they're unusual and often controversial. In short, news is just about anything that will hold someone's interest.

  2. Find the right journalist to tell it

    Does the station have a certain reporter who concentrates on just business stories? Or is there someone who tends to cover the lighter stuff?

  3. Reach out to the journalist

    Now that you have a great pitch and a reporter who covers stories like yours, give them a call.

What I talk about

Audiences of all sizes

Takeaways

  • How to come up with stories the media will love
  • The best and worst times for news coverage
  • How to keep your press releases from getting thrown away
  • How to become the “expert” in your field the media will call for a quote
  • How to keep reporters coming back for more
Watch — full keynote recording

Marketing Without Money — pitching the right reporter, slow news days, feeding frenzies, and becoming the expert producers call.

Free Publicity by Jeff Crilley
60,000 copies · now free online

The whole playbook,
no email required

Written by a working journalist instead of a PR person — which is why it tells you things some PR pros still don't know.

  • How to create ideas guaranteed to get coverage
  • How to write a killer press release
  • What to say during the interview

Thousands of people just like you have used this book to get free coverage on the news.

Read it now

Let's get
coffee.

Speaking date, PR project, or a question about a pitch you're about to send.

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