Get Featured in Montreal Gazette

Being local does not make Montreal Gazette easy to get into. A community newsroom has limited reporters and limited hours, so stories about businesses, practices and organizations often wait behind news that has to run today. A guaranteed placement works differently: it is arranged with the publication before any writing starts, you sign off on the draft, and it goes live on montrealgazette.com within a window stated in writing, usually four to six weeks. It is a real article on the site that you can put in a proposal, a deck or a profile.

What Montreal Gazette covers

What does a local news publication cover? Whatever matters to the people nearby. For Montreal Gazette, that means news for readers in Quebec: the kind of reporting on local government, business, schools, roads, real estate, events, sports and community life that larger outlets leave alone. A story earns its place by being relevant to the area, not by being big. Its reporting is published at montrealgazette.com.

Business and community stories sit comfortably beside civic news. A local publication is where readers expect to learn about a new restaurant, a practice adding a location, a contractor finishing a visible project, an artist’s exhibition or a company setting up in the area. The writing is plain and factual, the local connection is stated early, and the subject is someone or something readers can find nearby.

Who reads Montreal Gazette

Montreal Gazette’s readers are people with a stake in the area: residents, families, business owners, local officials, professionals and people thinking about moving to or investing in the community. The publication serves readers in Quebec, and they read local news for practical reasons. They want to know what is happening near them, which businesses are new, and who is doing work worth knowing about.

Local coverage carries a kind of weight that advertising does not. When neighbors read about a business, a practice or a cause in their community’s news publication, the name becomes familiar and easier to choose. For companies entering the market from elsewhere, it is a way to introduce themselves to the area in a setting locals already read.

Why a presence in Quebec is worth having

A feature in Montreal Gazette tells readers in Quebec that your company is active in their country and not only across the border. That distinction matters to Canadian customers, distributors and lenders, who often prefer to work with names they have seen at home. It gives your sales and hiring conversations in Quebec a local point of reference.

Coverage in Quebec is commonly sought by companies in natural resources, technology, real estate, financial services, retail and tourism, and by professionals such as lawyers, advisers and physicians. American firms expanding north are frequent clients, since they often need Canadian customers to see them as present in the country.

You do not need a big announcement to be local news. You need something real: an opening, a milestone, a new offering, a community effort, a personal story with roots in the area. What matters is that the details are accurate, the local link is plain, and the story tells readers something they did not know.

The angles below are where we begin. One clear angle, backed by real details about your work in the community, makes a better local story than a list of everything you offer.

What weakens a pitch

• Nothing new. A local story needs a reason to run now, such as a date, a change, an event or a recent result.
• Missing details. Without a location, a description of what you do and a clear timeline, a feature reads as generic and local readers move on.
• Claims that cannot be supported. Local readers know the area and will notice exaggeration, and we only write what is accurate.
• A story with no people in it. Community news is about neighbors, so a feature needs an owner, a team or a client perspective.