To pitch Vanity Fair, you must first build a relationship

How to begin a discussion with one of the magazine’s contributing editors, Michael Wolff.

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How to begin a discussion with one of the magazine’s contributing editors, Michael Wolff

Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Wolff won’t take your calls or read your e-mails—if you’re pitching him. So don’t pitch him. Get to know him. Wolff is more likely to listen to people he knows.

“There’s a big difference between a blind pitch and someone I have a relationship with,” he told Ragan.com. The good news is Wolff has relationships with a number of people in the PR and communications field “who are talking to [him] all the time.”

“Some of them are among my close friends,” he said.

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