A March 2013 note on Peter Shankman's departure from Vocus, three years after he sold HARO to the firm. The exit ended Shankman's day-to-day involvement with the press-source connection system he built in 2008.
Edelman, Burson, Golin, Cook, Torossian, Sitrick, Dilenschneider — why the founders of major PR agencies keep writing books. The business mechanics.
Peter Shankman built Help A Reporter Out (HARO) in 2008 — the single piece of infrastructure that connected the global press to the world's sources for sixteen years. Cision shut it down in 2024. Nothing has replaced it at the same scale.