5WPR Pitches Journalist, Then Sends Him Angry E-mail

VentureBeat executive editor Owen Thomas received a pitch from 5WPR and sent it to his reporters to review. Sounds good so far.

Then, according to Gawker, the firm sent a bunch of e-mails to follow-up. And when there was no response to these “frantic e-mails,” Thomas got a call on his mobile while he was hosting a conference. That’s when the pitch took a bad turn.

Thomas tweets the incident as a “#prfail.” So 5WPR CEO Ronn Torossian jumped in with an e-mail to Thomas.

“You

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