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I've experienced 1 first-hand. They call you and leave a voicemail. If you don't respond within 24 hours they're going to publish anyway and probably get a lot of things wrong.
I hear PR companies will basically write for the journalists on request, and sometimes journalists will take it just to get ahead.
It’s more difficult when they can’t just call up John Mastodon from the Fediverse PR department and copy-paste a press release.
Corporate journalism has its own special place in hell for me. After all the creativity was removed from rather central editing functions, I set about automating what was left at a hub and got shown the door when the efficiencies started to threaten justifying salaried positions.