rae 🫠

i'm in bed / i'm a pitching coach + i have newsletters for freelance writers & about pools / bylines @WSJ @menshealth @guardian @mashable @GQmagazine @natgeo

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

Soo, after 2.5ish years of Approved Pitches for freelance writers, I'm starting a second newsletter for PR and comms people (agency or in-house) called Placements. All the info here: https://t.co/1DU3vKK2pP #journorequest

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

Approved Pitches will break down the pitch and the process that turn into a published story and paycheck. Each newsletter will include the live story, original pitch and subject line, the relationship with the editor, the rate and context. https://t.co/K5VQUcq7Wi

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

@hassanrahim @studio_daddy if it makes you feel any better, I pitched a story to a NYT editor on the wellness desk and he didn’t know what it was 🙃

[Farnoush Amiri @FarnoushAmiri]

being a journalist:

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

If you are a PR or comms person and wanna see how the sauce is made, my first for Off The Record recounts how a hotel press trip landed in GQ even though they don't cover travel: https://t.co/XBUm3aexVh

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

Camming, watching porn and sexting your AI is not losing your virginity. The idea of responding to all of these emails is so unserious

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

The latest insane pitch I got (an hour ago) is “Gen Z invented a new way to lose their virginity” and they’re talking about sexual experiences with AI 😂

[gwen howerton @kissphoria]

random PR people: Journalism wouldn't exist without all the pitches I email you

The pitches in my inbox: Interview - He Ate Mud Every Single Day For 25 Years. The Lessons He Learned Will Reverberate Forever

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

It is always so funny to me when anyone in the media ecosystem (in house writer or editor or otherwise) gets all hierarchical, calls freelancers unemployed and positions themselves as above them

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

keep following up with the unemployed ppl I guess 😭

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

I used to have a Patreon that took PR ppl from their pitch thru my pitch to the published story and that’s definitely coming back but it’s VERY CLEAR journalists and PR are speaking completely different languages rn

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

In light of the inane declaration that journalism doesn’t happen without PR #on #here and the subsequent (valid!) fallout, just I’m joining Hannah Singleton’s (who doesnt tweet) Substack for PR/comms ppl yay :) https://t.co/Rd6PuDfBX3

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

what’s the polymarket over under on Trump hanging him out to dry

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ties himself to President Donald Trump and calls impeachment efforts against him a "political spectacle." Follow live updates. https://t.co/lyJyF8OFyx

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

@dialGG My very first question was vsco filter? 😂

[bbl mccarthyism @hellciee]

I would feel more inclined to give a fuck about male loneliness and boys not reading if the summation of the cause wasn’t framed as “because girls are doing stuff”

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

there was soooo much focus on coddling them and understanding the manosphere and not making them feel bad about themselves, and you literally just needed a guy they could respect, look up to and that they perceive as powerful

[charles r. davis @charizardavis]

interesting how much focus there was on winning young men in 2024, but when abdul el-sayed is the senate candidate who performed best with men aged 18-29 of all races, suddenly crickets

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

@incintiv an insecure man with friends will too honestly, the context is only relevant to how he chooses to be horrible to you

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

My favorite part of Autumn is watching the states turn blue.

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

@TaylorLorenz @emmasteuer1 I got a lot of homework and I think it’s useful to accommodate different learning styles. It’s also probably how I ended up in journalism.

[svnh.bsky.social @savannah_cat_]

can we turn one more thing blue

[rae 🫠 @RaeWitte]

when men here me say “they’re just men” about men they have on some sort of pedestal BOY they are unhapppppy with me but idk they aren’t that smart. It’s just privilege and power in numbers in those rooms.

[sammy @_itzsammy]

Michelle Obama has said she's sat at nearly every powerful table imaginable and quickly realized "they're not that smart." I wonder how many women in male-dominated rooms and fields have felt exactly the same.

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

I keep getting pitched on studies and reports or policy proposals, offering “exclusives” in exchange for having like 2-3 days to write it. This is bad PR strategy! Get in touch much earlier if you’re actually serious about coverage. And assume we are already in the middle of something, can’t just abandon that assignment, and probably have our next story lined up too. Offering a coverage opportunity but with no time to really report on it signals to me you don’t want serious engagement and want to shape it as a press release. Maybe that is what you want but odds of getting a yes dramatically lower

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Every single element of their insipid masturbatory communications strategy was designed around what young men supposedly liked. No single group shifted more to the left.