How to reach journalists at newspapers to write about my website?

I want to publicise my website to the media and have tried to contact journalists and newspapers to no avail. I have even paid for agencies to write me a press release and have submitted on line and have tried to write my own. Nothing works. I am stuck...

What is proper etiquette for writing and distributing press releases? General advice, book/website suggestions appreciated; more specific questions inside. I've been publicity chair of a film society in Chicago for about two months. We have a 500-seat...

I just wonder what true journalists and writers for newspapers, magazines, etc think of people who write trashy articles for tabloids and hunt down celebrities to take pictures? Do you consider them colleagues in your field? Or do you consider them scum...

i want to write online stories and want them to be read. i am a good writer and i need a website were i can write them. for now i write stories in paper to let out my stress. one day my dad came in the room and was very fascinated by what i write. well...

For example, David Smith who family name is Smith is called David Smith in the first time his name is mentioned in a news story, but in the second and third references we call him Mr Smith or just Smith, as in Mr Smith said, or Smith said.   But for...

I am looking for the journalists that are experts in what they write about. I am looking for journalists who have some expertise on the subject matter they most often cover. Examples would be Atul Gawande on medicine, Sarah Kliff on Obamacare and Ta...

Hey if someone could help me I'd greatly appreciate it. There is a website that I cannot access from home. It just says could not find this website. But the website is up!! So it's just me. I went to it from a friend's house even. Now I tried clearing...

Asking for a friend: Despite not having changed hard- or software, my friend can't access a website that is up and running normally. He can access it (and his account) from other locations (i.e. friend's place), just not from home. What's going on and...

If I'm preparing press for a launch, what are some tips to make it easy for journalists to write about it? For example, is a formal press release helpful? If not, are there particular written materials I should prepare? What are the key elements journalists...