This one-hour training is filled to the brim with tons of story ideas that media are looking for right now. Find out how you can anticipate exactly which compelling story ideas that editors, producers and reporters need to fill their newscasts, papers and online deadlines. Become their media expert in the process.

Become the media expert newsrooms crave to get stories from and boost your free publicity to levels of celebrity status. Media & Gossip Expert Shawne Duperon and Publicity Hound Joan Stewart rattle off tons of stories that WILL be covered in newsrooms across the country from January through June, increasing your free coverage by thousands of dollars.

You will learn:

• January is an excellent month for pitching
• How to piggyback story ideas off New Year's Day and New Year's resolutions
• 3 things the media typically report on at the start of the new year
• 3 story ideas that tie into Super Bowl Sunday including a great way to get the TV cameras to come to your home or company
• Why coverage at your home is outrageously fun!
• 4 ideas for authors, small publishers and book stores during January
• Ideas for Inauguration Day
• The hottest topic during January, and 5 ideas for stories you can pitch
• Why it's difficult to pitch ideas that tie into Valentine's Day...but how to be heard above the noise made by everyone else who's pitching
• The hot topic for TV and print during the month of February...and 5 of our best ideas that tie into it
• 5 ideas that tie into weddings...if you sell to the bridal market, you can't miss these
• Why the media love stories about parties, celebrating and eating during February
• Why March is an excellent time to create your own day, week or month of the year--and how to create it for free, then get fabulous national publicity
• 3 ideas for St. Patty's Day
• An idea that schools can pitch during March that newspapers will LOVE
• A great behind-the-scenes idea for retailers during February
• How to tie your ideas to the excitement that's building for the Oscars
• Why April is the month to pitch "happy" stories...and seasonal things the media will be covering this month
• 4 ideas that tie into the April 15 tax filing deadline
• A great idea you can pitch to print media during April but that you must NEVER pitch to TV
• 7 ideas to tie into Easter
• A great opportunity for non-profits to pitch during April
• All about sweeps month in May, and a super suggestion on how you can tie your story to something that TV people are already excited about
• 4 great story pitches that tie into summer vacations
• A quick and easy idea that will increase your chances of getting into national magazines, regardless of your topic
• 3 story ideas related to the high school prom...this is an annual story the media must cover, so make sure you're included
• 11 start-of-summer story ideas
• Everybody's talking about this one topic in June...here's how you can generate publicity from it
• What you must know about sending food to seal the deal for coverage...and
• when to NEVER send food