Love this tip from Pro PR Tips: Advice from a jaded tech journalist
Tip #151: No clumping. At a working dinner (like an awards banquet or evening panel discussion), don’t seat all the journalists together. You’ll get more coverage if you actually put us in proximity to the people we get paid to talk to.
That said, the good journalists will ignore or hack the seating plans anyway. So, never mind.
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