090: Tips on Pitching Stories to Reporters with Melia Russell
In this week’s Immigration Law for Tech Startups podcast, I’m joined by Melia Russell, a senior tech reporter at the financial and business news website, Business Insider. She particularly covers startups and venture capital focusing on growth-stage companies, tech investment details, and workplace issues, including immigration-related matters. Today, we’re going to be talking about all things related to journalism, immigrants, and technology. Recently, Melia has been promoted to a correspondent at Insider.
Melia likes to cover emerging issues in law and policy related to immigrants and tech startups as well as reporting on immigrant-founded tech companies. These topics are somewhat a niche in the world but are so important to the Silicon Valley ecosystem and innovation.
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In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Taking a service journalism approach when covering immigrants
- What’s going on in the economy in terms of talents in tech
- The longest-running hiring spree in the startup ecosystem
- Breaking the story on the startup visa
- The benefits of the startup visa bill
- How to create compelling pitches
Don’t miss my upcoming conversations with top Silicon Valley venture capitalists, startup founders, professors, futurists, and thought leaders on Immigration Law for Tech Startups. Subscribe to this podcast here or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or whatever your favorite platform is. As always, we welcome your rating and review of this podcast. We appreciate your feedback!
Resources:
Email: mrussell@insider.com
Alcorn Immigration Law:
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- Immigration Law for Tech Startups podcast:
- Episode 089: Advocating for International Startup Founders with Jeff Farrah of National Venture Capital Association
- Episode 073: International Entrepreneur Parole is Back!
- Episode 078: Parole Entry Process
- Immigration Options for Talent, Investors, and Founders
- Immigration Law for Tech Startups eBook
- Extraordinary Ability Bootcamp course for best practices for securing the O-1A visa, EB-1A green card, or the EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) green card — the top options for startup founders. Use promotion code ILTS for 20% off the enrollment fee.
Originally published at Alcorn Immigration Law — A Silicon Valley Immigration Firm.
