Vocus buys Help A Reporter Out: What can subscribers expect?

Don’t worry, subscribers to Help A Reporter Out (HARO), nothing is going to change. On Thursday, PR software-maker Vocus bought HARO, and the question bouncing around Twitter was how the acquisition will affect the free service. “There will be absolutely no difference,” HARO founder Peter Shankman told Ragan.com . “I’m still running HARO; the editors are still running HARO. And we will never charge—it will still be free.”