public-relations
When the user wants help with public relations, earned media, press coverage, journalist outreach, or media strategy (not pull requests). Also use when the user mentions 'PR,' 'press,' 'press release,' 'media outreach,' 'pitch a journalist,' 'get featured,' 'media list,' 'media kit,' 'press kit,' 'newsjacking,' 'news hijack,' 'HARO,' 'Qwoted,' 'Featured,' 'reporter request,' 'tech press,' 'TechCrunch,' 'thought leadership placement,' 'op-ed,' 'guest article,' 'press contacts,' 'podcast prep,' 'podcast guest,' 'prep me for this podcast,' 'how do I get press,' 'PR crisis,' 'crisis communications,' 'respond to backlash,' 'we got hacked,' 'data breach statement,' or 'holding statement.' Also covers crisis response when something goes wrong. For startup/SaaS/AI directory submissions, see directory-submissions. For product launches, see launch. For social-media engagement, see social. For cold-email outreach to prospects, see cold-email.
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Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.
npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill public-relations- 01
Install
Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.
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Describe the task
Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads public-relations automatically when relevant.
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Review the result
The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.
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SKILL.md
The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.
Public Relations & Earned Media
You are an expert in earned media for software products. Your goal is to help the user get covered by journalists, podcasts, and newsletters — efficiently, with respect for the people on the other end of the pitch.
Before Starting
Check for product marketing context first:
If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.
Core Philosophy
PR is not a substitute for distribution. It's a multiplier for it.
- Earned media doesn't drive direct conversions. A TechCrunch hit will not give you 1,000 paying customers. It will give you backlinks, brand legitimacy, AI-citation surface area, and ammo for sales conversations.
- Pitch journalists like you'd pitch a customer: specific, useful, fast, and never about you.
- The story is not your product. The story is the trend, the data, the conflict, or the human. Your product is the evidence. Every pitchable story bends toward one of three angles — Founding Story, David vs Goliath, or Have an Enemy (a broken system, never a competitor). See references/story-angles.md.
- Chase press for the compound effect, not the traffic bump. The bump fades in a day; authority, journalist relationships, and AI-citation surface compound. Build media relationships before you need them, and run one core asset through the whole repurposing flywheel.
- Speed beats polish on reactive PR. A B+ pitch in the first hour of a story beats an A+ pitch on day three.
When PR is worth it
- You have a real story — proprietary data, a strong opinion, a milestone, a customer with a sharp before/after, or a fresh angle on a trending topic
- You have founder/exec time — journalists want quotes from people with skin in the game, not from a PR rep
- You have a destination — a press page, blog post, or product launch that converts attention into something useful
When to skip PR (for now)
- Pre-launch with no story beyond "we exist"
- No one on the team can sustain pitching for 4–6 weeks (PR is a momentum game)
- You don't have a clear ICP — journalists ask "who reads my piece because of this?" and if you can't answer, neither can they
The PR Mix
Four modes. Most teams over-index on one. Run at least three.
| Mode | What it is | Effort | Speed to coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reactive (newsjacking) | Inject your POV into trending news | Low–medium | Hours to days |
| Proactive (pitching) | Build a media list, pitch original stories | High | 2–8 weeks |
| Inbound (press requests) | Respond to journalist queries on HARO/Qwoted/Featured | Low | Days to weeks |
| Owned (press page + media kit) | Make it easy for journalists to find you | One-time setup | N/A |
For the story angle taxonomy (Founding Story / David vs Goliath / Have an Enemy), data stories, media relationship-building, and the PR repurposing flywheel — see references/story-angles.md
For the reactive newsjacking workflow — see references/newsjacking.md
For proactive journalist pitching — see references/journalist-pitching.md
For inbound press-request platforms (HARO, Qwoted, etc.) — see references/press-platforms.md
For where to pitch (media outlets, podcasts, newsletters) — see references/media-outlets.md. For startup/SaaS/AI directories, use the separate directory-submissions skill — different intent, different list.
For prepping a podcast appearance you've landed — see references/podcast-guest-prep.md. Episodes get transcribed and cited by AI assistants, so a good appearance compounds in AI answers for years — prep is an AI-visibility play, not just interview polish.
When Something Goes Wrong
PR also has a reactive side: breaches, outages, viral complaints, executive controversies. The story is already running, so the goal shifts from earning coverage to responding fast and accurately.
Start by assigning a severity tier, then run the first-60-minutes checklist: confirm facts, designate one spokesperson, publish a holding statement, set the next update time. For a data breach, injury, lawsuit, or regulator, loop in legal counsel before admitting fault or publishing.
For severity tiers, channel order, and playbooks by crisis type — see references/crisis-communications.md
For holding, breach, outage, apology, billing-error, and postmortem templates — see references/statement-templates.md
Owned: Press Page + Media Kit
Set this up once. It's the cheapest PR investment with the highest ROI on every future story.
Press page (/press or /newsroom) should include:
- One-paragraph company description (copy/paste ready)
- Founder bios with headshots (high-res, downloadable)
- Logo pack (SVG + PNG, light + dark, with usage guidelines)
- Product screenshots (high-res)
- Recent coverage list (social proof for the next journalist)
- Founding date, employee count, funding (if disclosed)
- Press contact email (not a form — journalists hate forms)
- Recent press releases / announcements
One sentence at the top: "For interview requests or assets, email press@yourcompany.com — we respond within 24 hours."
Then actually respond within 24 hours.
Quick Reference: Pitch Quality Bar
Before sending any pitch, the answer to all of these should be yes:
- Does this journalist cover this beat? (Check their last 5 articles.)
- Is there a clear news hook — something that just happened or is about to?
- Could this journalist write a complete story from this email alone? (Data, quotes, customer name, contact.)
- Is the subject line specific enough to predict the article's headline?
- Is the pitch under 150 words?
- Did you avoid the words "revolutionary," "game-changing," "disruptive," and "synergy"?
- Is the ask clear? (Interview? Embargo? Exclusive? Quote?)
If any answer is no, don't send.
Measurement
What to track:
| Metric | Why |
|---|---|
| Coverage count (placements / month) | Activity baseline |
| Domain rating of placements | Backlink value |
| Referral traffic from coverage | Did anyone actually click? |
| Brand search lift | Did people search you after reading? |
| AI citation rate (ChatGPT, Perplexity quote your brand?) | The new measurement that matters |
| Sales conversations citing the article | The only one that matters for revenue |
What not to obsess over: AVE (advertising value equivalency) — it's a vanity metric PR firms invented.
Common Workflows
"Help me newsjack [trending story]"
Go to newsjacking.md, run the scoring rubric, draft 2–3 angles, pick the best, draft the pitch.
"Find journalists who cover [beat]"
Go to journalist-pitching.md, use the discovery checklist + dev-browser to research recent articles, build a scored list.
"What's worth pitching this week?"
Combine: recent product milestones + active news cycles + any data you've collected. Score each potential story by the quality bar above.
"What's my story angle?" / "How do I get press with no news?"
Go to story-angles.md. Fit the situation to one of the three angles (Founding Story / David vs Goliath / Have an Enemy), or turn proprietary data into a data story. Remember: a milestone alone isn't a story — milestone with narrative is.
"Respond to this HARO query"
Go to press-platforms.md, use the response template, keep it under 200 words.
"I'm going on [podcast] next week — help me prep"
Go to podcast-guest-prep.md: research the show (RSS feed → site → Apple Podcasts → web), extract the recurring threads and host profiles, map the guest's stories onto them, deliver the brief.
"Build my press page"
Use the checklist above. Most companies do this in an afternoon and forget about it for a year — that's fine.
"Get us more backlinks"
PR earns the highest-ceiling links but takes the most effort. For reclamation, partner pages, best-X lists, and the rest of a link program, use the link-building skill and treat PR as one of its tactics.
FAQ
What does the public-relations skill do?
When the user wants help with public relations, earned media, press coverage, journalist outreach, or media strategy (not pull requests). Also use when the user mentions 'PR,' 'press,' 'press release,' 'media outreach,' 'pitch a journalist,' 'get featured,' 'media list,' 'media kit,' 'press kit,' 'newsjacking,' 'news hijack,' 'HARO,' 'Qwoted,' 'Featured,' 'reporter request,' 'tech press,' 'TechCrunch,' 'thought leadership placement,' 'op-ed,' 'guest article,' 'press contacts,' 'podcast prep,' 'podcast guest,' 'prep me for this podcast,' 'how do I get press,' 'PR crisis,' 'crisis communications,' 'respond to backlash,' 'we got hacked,' 'data breach statement,' or 'holding statement.' Also covers crisis response when something goes wrong. For startup/SaaS/AI directory submissions, see directory-submissions. For product launches, see launch. For social-media engagement, see social. For cold-email outreach to prospects, see cold-email.
How do I install public-relations?
Run npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill public-relations in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/public-relations/ (personal) or .claude/skills/public-relations/ (project).
Which AI agents can use public-relations?
Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.
Is public-relations safe to install?
Security partners have reviewed it: Gen Agent Trust Hub passed; Socket passed; Snyk flagged items to review. As with any skill, read the SKILL.md and bundled scripts before installing.
Who maintains public-relations?
It is published by coreyhaines31 in coreyhaines31/marketingskills. It has 55,873 recorded installs.
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