- 2 July 2024
- 11.00am
- Zoom
- 1 hour
Pitching to Top Property Writers
We invite you to join three of the UK’s top property journalists as they lead us through what it takes for PRs to ensure their pitches hit the mark and win coverage in the most important property pages in UK media.
As we approach the general election, the economy appears in recovery mode, inflation is under control, interest rates are poised to fall, and house building is inching back into gear. It’s no surprise that property editors are are on the lookout for compelling pitches and supporting content to enrich their output.
But what does it take to get noticed? For PR professionals at every level, this must-attend session will provide insights and strategies to achieve cut-through with the UK’s most influential property editors and journalists.
The Panel
Martina Lees
Senior Property Writer The Times & The Sunday Times
Martina Lees is a senior property writer at The Sunday Times and The Times. She has won more than ten awards for her investigations, including a British Journalism Award and Property Journalist of the Year, for campaigning to free millions of people from the cladding scandal. With an interest in how complex policy shapes our lives, Martina covers the big issues in housing, planning and climate change. She is the author of The Accidental Landlord, a property bestseller, and started out as a crime reporter in Johannesburg over 20 years ago.
Simoney Kyriakou
Editor FTAdviser
Simoney Kyriakou is an award-winning financial journalist and senior editor of FTAdviser. She has been writing on personal finance since the late 1990s and often ends up doing public speaking engagements. She can be found tweeting (or Xing) at @moorgatemermaid and sometimes dives into LinkedIn.
Liz Rowlinson
Freelance Property Writer and Editor
Liz Rowlinson is a London based journalist who has covered overseas property for 25 years. After working as an editor on a national newspaper and running an overseas property magazine, she is now freelance, a regular contributor to the Financial Times, The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Money Mail, and Editor of A Place in the Sun.
Henry Hemming (Moderator)
CEO Property4Media
Henry’s an entrepreneur who’s about to hit a milestone 40 years in communications, his first day in PR dating back to June 1984, when he joined a travel PR agency in London’s West End. Then followed seven years as a travel writer, after which he created a travel PR company that’s since evolved into a successful multi-sector agency.
Henry launched Property4Media in 2005, creating the UK’s first digital community of property journalists and property PR professionals. He did this as CEO of News4Media, a company licensing – for other industry sectors – the technology of TravMedia.com.
Henry had already launched TravMedia in the UK in 2003 as Managing Director of joint venture company TravMedia UK Ltd, which he created with TravMedia founder and CEO Nick Wayland, to help TravMedia’s rapid global expansion.
Henry lives in East Sussex, is a keen photographer, nature lover and ardent Beatles fan (yeah, yeah, yeah).
What We'll Cover
Core Topics
- PR pitching – best practice
- Spokespeople
- News reaction
- Features – ideas, facts, quotes, data, images
- The General Election aftermath
- Mortgages and interest rates
- Overseas property
- House prices and new builds
Attending Property4Media Meets
Property4Media Meets webinars are free to Property4Media customers. For non-customers the cost to attend is £25pp per webinar*
*Non-customers who wish to take out a subscription with Property4Media may be eligible for a free trial – please contact Ash Pearson for details.
- 2 July 2024
- 11.00am
- Zoom Events
- 1 hour
