Muck Rack for Journalists Reviews

easy to use, friendly site, always updated

Reports, presentations. Articles need to be partitioned; do not copy all and add pages.

The emails goes directly to the person. Journalists get all the information we send. it's a direct mailing, not massive. Makes job easier.

Muck Rack is a well established, comprehensive database of reporters across industries and publications so you're getting your story in front of the right person.

Like everything, it can be hard to keep up with every change that is going on daily so there are times when data is a tad dated, but the benefits here far outweigh the cons.

Journalists are always looking for Subject Matter Experts on stories and subsequently, public relations professionals are looking to connect clients with the right people to tell their story.

As someone who's moved in and out of journalism throughout my career, Much Rack for Journalists has been invaluable as an archive of my previous work. It's great for job applications, as well as for seeking out potential collaborators.

Muck Rack is definitely designed for journalists for whom all of their work is published online (as most is, nowadays). As such, the UI around adding pieces published in print is a bit clunky.

It's vital to keep up with this by uploading your work as it arises. In that way, it can be an excellent resource for you to look back at.

As you build up a portfolio of work, it can be challenging to know where to keep it all organized (for easy reference). Muck Rack helps to solve this problem, which is invaluable for writers.

As a journalist myself, I find Muckruck informative on keeping up with fellow reporters-- as well as seeing where my articles have been aggregated and sent to wherever else as well.

There should be more options to follow links and see how far an article has reached as well as get a basic timeline for both the story and the author of the article.

MuckRuck is great to catch up with the news stories of some of the best journalists in the field, and offers a great plethora of all authors who may have previously written for a publication as well as what future up and coming reporters a news agency may have just hired.

Not so much problems as it provides a fact based and verifiable area for finding some of your favorite journalists and see what they are up to, as well as see what articles and news stories they are following that you should do so as well.

Muck Rack is a great third-party verification tool for media professionals. Since they take the time to update your profile with your latest work, it makes it easier to have all in one place if you write for numerous publications.

I don't really like that they display your tweets. Twitter is a conversational platform, and so it looks out of context.

I use Muck Rack as a freelancer to consolidate my work. It serves as my portfolio to show potential clients.

The Muck Rack newsletter is one of the few that I read almost every day. Written with flair and voice, it helps direct me to the most important news each day. I trust them almost implicitly. In addition, I'm grateful for the way that Muck Rack collates all of my pieces — helpfully showing up fairly high in Google searches.

Can't really think of any dislikes. I've never had any issues with the service, though admittedly I don't pay for anything. I don't think...

I would definitely recommend to other journalists!

It's an excellent news aggregate that saves me a lot of time skimming headlines each day. It also helps collect all of my published pieces under one respectable umbrella, providing advertising at no cost to me.

It has a superior format for portfolios.

I dislike that I don't spend much time on it.

Excellent platform to build and create your journalist's portfolio.

I can solve the problem of not having a decent place to store my articles. There are many benefits, such as the availability of social network sharing and convenience.

I'm a big fan of Muck Rack to easily consolidate my news clips. It is also a good resource for data analytics among journalists. I also my own CMS programs to create personal pages, but they are hard on up-keep. It also has a very simple to use analytics calculator, just input the article's URL into the "who's shared my article" section, for how many times your article has been shared among other journalists and media outlets shared your article. It also pulls tweet embeds of journalists who have shared the article to show what they said. There are still a few features I have not used yet.

The site could have a nicer aesthetic presence, typically in the automatic pull section of news clips. I also have trouble editing logistical information, such as the appropriate phone number to use. Furthermore, the profile section has an odd timeline for filtering priority of information. But hey, it is still way more user friendly and faster than building your own website.

This is a great back up website to your personal site, or a good intermediary as you build your own. It also acts as a networking community.

As a journalist, it is hard consolidate all the clips you produce. Muck Rack does it for you. In addition, the site also has a feature where you can cultivate your own profile. It is also helpful to know what other journalists/news sites are reading and sharing your work. In this way, you know the type of appeal your articles have on others in the industry, and site places for possible collaboration among outlets.

From a journalist's point of view (regarding business development/personal branding), it's a good way to consistently showcase your work in a portfolio-type setting. The media industry needs you to hustle. For anyone else, it's a way to look at the prior work of a journalist (what kinds of outlets have they worked for? what topics are they good at covering? do they specialize or are they general assignment types?) easily, without having to navigate to many different websites (if the journalist has written for many different outlets).

The product is not mainstream and not enough working journalists actually use it. Since the value of the information comes from the journalist profiles, there needs to be more profiles. It is definitely a credible product - the journalists on Muck Rack are willing to stand behind their profiles. Muck Rack could probably attract more journalists by showing examples of how people got work through their profiles.

Use it to save time.

It's a convenient, efficient way to see the past work of a journalist. A way to learn about them with less reading and research.

I like that the website collects my story "clips" for me, but that I can also add my own if there are any missing. It adds to my credibility as a journalist.

I haven't noticed anything I dislike about Muck Rack.

Muck Rack allows me to aggregate my story clips for keeping track as well as easy display to others who may be interested.