VP of Communications
Manage media relations and press strategy
What You Do Today
Build relationships with journalists, pitch stories, manage press inquiries, and prepare executives for media interviews. Control the narrative by providing the media with your perspective first.
AI That Applies
AI-assisted journalist targeting that identifies the reporters most likely to cover your story based on their beat, recent articles, and social media activity.
Technologies
How It Works
For manage media relations and press strategy, the system identifies the reporters most likely to cover your story based on their. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context.
What Changes
Media targeting becomes more precise. AI identifies the right journalist for each story based on their coverage patterns and interests.
What Stays
Journalist relationships are built on trust, credibility, and mutual value. A reporter takes your call because they trust you'll give them accurate, newsworthy information.
What To Do Next
This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.
Establish Your Baseline
Know where you are before you move
Before adopting AI tools for manage media relations and press strategy, understand your current state.
Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.
Define Your Measures
What to track and how to calculate it
Time per cycle
How to calculate
Measure how long manage media relations and press strategy takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.
Why it matters
The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.
Quality of output
How to calculate
Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.
Why it matters
Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.
Start These Conversations
Who to talk to and what to ask
your board chair or lead independent director
“What data do we already have that could improve how we handle manage media relations and press strategy?”
They shape expectations for how AI appears in governance
your CTO or CIO
“Who on our team has the deepest experience with manage media relations and press strategy, and what tools are they already using?”
They own the technology infrastructure that enables AI adoption
a peer executive at a company further along on AI adoption
“If we brought in AI tools for manage media relations and press strategy, what would we measure before and after to know it actually helped?”
Their lessons learned are worth more than any consultant's framework
Check Your Prerequisites
Confirm readiness before you invest
Check items as you confirm them.