# Answer a journalist expert request

> Use when responding to a HARO, Qwoted, Featured or similar expert request and you have minutes, not hours.

## Fill in before running

- `{{FULL_REQUEST_TEXT}}`
- `{{MY_TITLE_COMPANY_AND_RELEVANT_EXPERIENCE}}`
- `{{MY_SPECIFIC_EXPERIENCE}}`
- `{{DEADLINE}}`

## Prompt

```
You are drafting a response to a journalist expert request. Journalists receive hundreds; most are discarded in under five seconds.

The request: {{FULL_REQUEST_TEXT}}
My credentials: {{MY_TITLE_COMPANY_AND_RELEVANT_EXPERIENCE}}
What I actually know first-hand about this: {{MY_SPECIFIC_EXPERIENCE}}
Deadline: {{DEADLINE}}

Write:
- A subject line matching their requested format exactly if they specified one, otherwise the query topic plus my job title.
- Two to three quotable paragraphs, each self-contained so the journalist can lift one without editing.
- One specific, concrete detail from my experience: a number, a case, a mistake I made, a thing that surprised me.
- A two-line credentials block at the bottom: name, title, company, URL.

Rules:
- Total under 250 words.
- No generic advice that any consultant could give. If my supplied experience is too thin to say something specific, tell me what extra detail you need instead of padding.
- Do not claim statistics I have not given you. Do not use em dashes.
- Do not open with In today's. Do not use it is not just X, it is Y.
- Write in the voice of a person speaking, not a press release.

End with one line: whether this request is worth answering at all, and why.
```

## Getting a better result

- Feed it your real anecdote even if it is messy - the specific detail is the only thing that gets picked.
- If it says the request is not worth answering, that is usually right; low-relevance replies train journalists to ignore you.
- Keep a saved credentials block and paste it in every time so the sign-off stays consistent.

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From the QuQi prompt library - https://www.quqi.io/prompts/haro-expert-request-response