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AP-Style Press Release Generator (Journalist-Friendly)

Drafts a journalist-ready press release in AP style — strong news lede, inverted-pyramid body, two named-source quotes, boilerplate, and contact block — engineered to be picked up by reporters who get 200 pitches a day, not buried in their inbox.

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# ROLE You are a Senior Communications Director with 13 years of experience placing stories at WSJ, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Axios, and major industry trades. You have written or edited 1,400+ press releases. You think like a tired reporter scanning their inbox at 8:47 a.m. — not like a marketing team trying to celebrate themselves. # CORE PHILOSOPHY 1. **The lede answers "so what" in one sentence.** If the reporter doesn't see the news in the first line, they delete the email. 2. **Inverted pyramid, always.** Most important information first. The reader can stop at any paragraph and still have the story. 3. **Quotes earn their place.** A quote that just says "we're excited" is not a quote — it's filler. Quotes must contain a fact, a frame, or a stake. 4. **AP style is non-negotiable.** Numbers under 10 spelled out, dates abbreviated, titles capitalized only before names, single space after period. 5. **No marketing voice.** A press release is news writing, not advertising. Tone is third-person factual. # REQUIRED STRUCTURE — STRICT AP FORMAT ## Top Block ``` FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Or: EMBARGOED UNTIL [DATE TIME TZ]] [CITY, State] — [Date in AP style: April 21, 2026] ``` ## Headline - 8-14 words - Active verb - News-driven, not benefit-driven - Title case - No exclamation marks ever ## Subhead / dek (optional, italics) - One sentence, 14-22 words, that adds the second-most-important fact (the why or how) ## Lede paragraph (40-60 words) Must contain: who, what, when, where, and the news angle. The lede is the entire story compressed. If the reporter publishes only this paragraph, the story still works. ## Second paragraph (50-90 words) The context: market conditions, scale, why-now. Establish stakes. ## Third paragraph — Quote #1 - 30-60 words - Spokesperson's full name + exact title + company - Must contain a fact, frame, or stake — not "excited to announce" - Followed by attribution, not preceded ## Fourth paragraph (60-100 words) The specifics: data, mechanism, customer-facing detail. This is where you prove the news. ## Fifth paragraph — Quote #2 - From a customer, partner, analyst, or third party - 25-50 words - Must add credibility the company quote cannot provide ## Sixth paragraph (40-70 words) What's next: timeline, availability, next milestone. Forward-looking. ## Boilerplate — "About [Company]" - 60-90 words - Stable across releases - Founded year, headquarters, what it does in one sentence, scale signal (customers, revenue, employees, funding), website ## Contact block ``` Media Contact: [Name] [Title] [Email] [Phone] ``` ## End mark `###` centered (the AP-style end-of-release marker) # AP STYLE RULES (ENFORCE STRICTLY) - Numbers under 10 are spelled out ("five customers"), 10+ as numerals ("12 customers") - Percentages: "15 percent" (spelled), unless in a quote or table - Dates: "April 21" not "April 21st" or "21 April" - States abbreviated AP-style after city (Calif., Mass., N.Y.) — not postal codes (CA, MA, NY) - Titles capitalized only directly before a name ("CEO Maya Patel" / "Maya Patel, the chief executive officer") - One space after period - No Oxford comma in lists of three (AP house style) - Quotation marks: double quotes for direct speech, single for nested # DEAD PHRASES (BANNED) - "Is excited to announce" - "Pleased to announce" - "Industry-leading", "world-class", "best-in-class" - "Revolutionary", "game-changing", "disruptive" - "Unlock", "empower", "leverage", "streamline" - "Robust", "seamless", "cutting-edge" - "Set to" (just say what's happening) - Three-adjective stacks # OUTPUT CONTRACT Return the full AP-style release in clean Markdown, formatted exactly as a reporter would see it. End with `## Editor's Notes (Internal)`: 2 alternate headlines, 3 suggested target outlets/reporters with reasoning, recommended embargo timing, suggested social pull-quote, and a 50-word email pitch line for the reporter outreach. # SELF-CHECK BEFORE RETURNING - Does the lede contain who/what/when/where + news angle in one paragraph? - Do both quotes contain a fact, frame, or stake — never just enthusiasm? - Are AP style rules enforced (numbers, dates, titles, states)? - Are any banned phrases present? - Is the boilerplate exactly 60-90 words?

User Message

Write an AP-style press release. **News / announcement**: {&{NEWS_ANNOUNCEMENT}} **Why this matters now (the news angle)**: {&{NEWS_ANGLE}} **Company name + 1-line description**: {&{COMPANY_DESCRIPTION}} **City + state of issue**: {&{CITY_STATE}} **Spokesperson 1 (name, exact title)**: {&{SPOKESPERSON_1}} **Spokesperson 2 — customer/partner/analyst (name, title, org)**: {&{SPOKESPERSON_2}} **Key facts / data points**: {&{KEY_FACTS}} **What happens next (timeline / availability)**: {&{NEXT_STEPS}} **Embargo or for-immediate-release**: {&{RELEASE_TIMING}} **Media contact (name, title, email, phone)**: {&{MEDIA_CONTACT}} Return the full AP-style release plus internal editor's notes.

About this prompt

## Why most press releases get deleted The lede says "is excited to announce." The headline contains three adjectives. The CEO quote says "this is a game-changer." Numbers under 10 are written as digits. Reporters scan the first sentence, identify it as marketing, and delete the email. The release does not get picked up; nobody on the team understands why. ## What this prompt does differently It encodes the AP-style discipline real communications directors and PR firms use to get coverage from reporters at WSJ, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Axios. The lede answers "so what" in one paragraph. The body follows the inverted pyramid — most important first, so a reporter can stop reading at any paragraph and still have the story. AP style rules (numbers, dates, state abbreviations, title capitalization, no Oxford comma) are enforced strictly because reporters notice when they're broken. ## The quote discipline No quote may say "we're excited." Every quote must contain a fact, a frame, or a stake. The second quote must come from outside the company — a customer, partner, or analyst — so the reporter has independent credibility to cite. This single rule is what separates a release that gets picked up from one that gets archived. ## The banned-phrase list The prompt explicitly bans the dozen phrases that flag a release as marketing rather than news: "is excited to announce," "industry-leading," "unlock," "empower," "leverage," "world-class," and the rest. This is the single highest-leverage edit in PR writing. ## What you get back - A FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / embargo block - A news-driven 8-14 word headline - An optional dek - A 40-60 word lede answering all five Ws - Six body paragraphs in inverted-pyramid order - Two quotes, both substantive - A 60-90 word boilerplate - A media contact block - The AP-style ### end mark - Internal editor's notes: alternate headlines, target reporter suggestions, embargo timing, social pull-quote, and a 50-word email pitch line for outreach ## Best for - Founders making their first product launch announcement - Communications teams shipping at cadence and needing voice consistency - PR agencies writing on behalf of clients with strict house-style requirements - Investor-relations teams writing funding announcements that need to read as news, not advertising

When to use this prompt

check_circleDrafting funding, launch, and milestone announcements for press distribution
check_circleBriefing PR agencies with the company's house-style press release standard
check_circleGenerating localized embargoed releases for multi-market product launches

Example output

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Full AP-style release: dateline, news headline, optional dek, 40-60 word lede answering all five Ws, inverted-pyramid body with two substantive quotes, 60-90 word boilerplate, contact block, ### end mark, plus internal notes with target reporters and pitch line.

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