The Renegade Writer

Help a Reporter Out: Too much of a free service?

I’ve been noticing a lot of freelancers complaining, some bitterly, about Peter Shankman’s Help a Reporter Out service, also known as HARO. The common theme of complaints is the volume of off-target responses reporters get from potential story sources.

(For the record, I don’t know Shankman, I’ve never used HARO, and I rarely use Profnet, another …

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