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Editor's Note: Multimedia Week
, also a sister publication of PR NEWS, has a proclivity for insider-track-styled news. It's an eight-page weekly that follows trends in emerging platforms, authoring tools and the Internet. It tracks new software and hardware, a good opportunity for PR placement.
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News Coverage includes these categories: licensing/OEM agreements; financial partnerships; technology breakthroughs (what's yet to hit the market); sales information, i.e. number of units sold; product projections; and high-level personnel changes. |
Editor Judith Abrams Phone: 301/946-7653 E-mail: [email protected] |
Getting a hold of Abrams is easiest on Monday and Tuesday. Hours are flexible, but typically, you should try between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. | Send items, releases, backgrounders, market data, story suggestions via electronic mail. An off-site Phillips editor, she lives and dies by e-mail. | "I want information that's unique," Abrams explains. "Don't send me the same thing you're sending everyone else...I want to know about deals when they're being made - not when it's after a product ships." |
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Multimedia Software and Hardware Each week, Multimedia Week provides charts that describe the important features, target markets, price and availability of new multimedia hardware, software and applications. |
Editor Judith Abrams Phone: 301/946-7653 E-mail: [email protected] |
Same as above. | Same as above. | Abrams recommends that new product information be sent to her as far in advance as possible. The info. you supply better be pointed since charts include an Editor's Note that candidly focuses on what companies are leveraging, exploring, etc. |
Editorial Contacts at Multimedia Week and CableFAX Daily, 301/340-7788
Multimedia Week:
Assistant Managing Editor - Art Cole
301/340-7788 ext. 2165
Editor - Judith Abrams
[email protected]
Editorial Assistant - Ann Brandstadter
301/340-7788 ext. 2315
CableFAX Daily:
Managing Editor - Seth Arenstein
301/340-7788 ext. 2117
Editor - Stephen Donohue
301/340-7788 ext. 2049
Reporter/Denver-Based - Daisy Whitney
303/777-6864, Fax: 303/777-1219