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Help A Reporter Out - Or Pitch Your Story

Posted: July 04, 2010

Journalists, connect with more than 80,000 news sources and experts. Companies, pitch stories to more than 30,000 communicators.

Journalists, connect with more than 80,000 news sources and experts. Companies, pitch stories to more than 30,000 communicators.

Help A Reporter Out (HARO) is a social media PR and marketing company serving reporters, entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Founded by entrepreneur Peter Shankman, HARO originally started as a Facebook Groups Page in late 2007, becoming a full-fledged online service in early 2008.

Today, HARO is a profitable, social media phenomenon that brings nearly 30,000 bloggers, reporters and journalists, over 80,000 news sources and thousands of small businesses together to tell their stories, promote their brands and sell their products and services, every day.

Since its inception, HARO has published more than 60,000 journalist queries; has facilitated nearly 7,000,000 media pitches, and has marketed and promoted over 1,200 small businesses to the media, business community and consumers.