www.muckrack.com
If I remember correctly, muck-racker was a derogatory term for questionable reporters.
I don’t know.
I’m sitting out at my fire-pit
enjoying the last hour of daylight
listening to the Braves game on the radio.
Braves 5 Cardinals 1; top of the 3rd...
Looks like it is like a “Linkedin” for reporters and PR folks. Where you can build portfolios and such to show off your wares.
It is as noted previously a professional site for people writing articles and maintain an online curation of their work.
the site tracks the popularity of the articles across the internet.
Find the right journalists for your story, send customized pitches, collaborate with your team, and quantify your impact with Muck Rack, the powerful, easy-to-use PR software platform. Muck Rack enables you to discover the best journalists to pitch on any story based on their profiles in our extensive media database, or through our comprehensive search engine covering the articles they’ve written and the content they share on social media.
Build precisely-targeted media lists that are automatically kept up-to-date, saving you from the burden of legacy media databases or manually-updated spreadsheets. Measure your impact with Muck Rack’s reporting and graphing features. Used globally by Fortune 500 companies, brands and agencies as an essential component of their communications strategy, Muck Rack enables the public relations professionals to accomplish more and prove their impact.
More at the link.
It’s a site where you can get “impartial journalists” to shill for you behind the respectability of the First Amendment and the old Hollywood image of reporters as public servants.
It’s a PR whorehouse.
Idiots.
The term was,
Muck-RAKE.
Raking muck. Not racking muck.
Public school kids that were never corrected ... muck rake .... just what it says .... stick a rake in the muck and pull back ... a muck raker
The web site is for Public Relations and press releases.
Muckraking was investigative journalism in to corruption and scandal in the late 1800’s early 1900’s.
Nellie Bly is a famous muckraker.
The website obviously just took the term for its name, but it has nothing to do with muckraking.
Know what? I am considering joining just to see what kind of Communist propaganda they are pumping each other up with in there... lol :)
I think it is. I’ve run across them before.
I can tell you about my experience. I am a journalist, and recently almost lost a lucrative article assignment after a federal agency expressed concerns that I was a “muckraker.” I had no idea what they were talking about. After researching my name on that site (which included several of my articles) I found a way to contact them and have my name and articles removed.
I had no idea what this site was about or that my articles were on it.
Its a somewhat useful place to research a journalist’s professional background.
Important stuff like where/when a journalist attended college who their spouse is, and where they grew up is often missing.
A database that combined all those elements would be truly useful.
It sounds like JournoList, but with more staffers, money and oomph behind it. JournoList was just journalists talking to one another. Muck Rack sounds like they’re a corporation or a well-endowed non-profit.