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January Mira Prompt Challenge: Prepare Your Executive Media Brief in 5 minutes🎙️

  • January 19, 2026
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kelly.bebenek
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January is prime time for executive interviews. Performance recaps, forward-looking strategy, market outlooks, and kickoff events all converge early in the year. The challenge is helping leaders walk into those conversations confident, informed, and aligned.

 

This month, you’ll use Mira to build a clear, practical media brief for an upcoming January interview. By the end, you’ll have a ready-to-use briefing document that flags what to expect and how to respond.

 

Where Mira helps

  • Build media briefs instantly
  • Surface journalist angles and patterns
  • Summarize recent coverage that could shape the interview

⭐️ If you don’t have Mira Studio yet, you can sign up for a free 90-day trial using this form.

 

Step 1: Set Up Your Project in Mira

 

If you haven’t created a Brand Project in Mira, you will want to first set up a new project in Mira Studio or the Meltwater Agent for Microsoft. This ensures your brief pulls from the right context.

Add the following:

  • Company or Brand: Your organization
  • Key People: The executive being interviewed (for example, your CEO)
  • Topic: The interview focus (performance, strategy, outlook, innovation, etc.)
  • Optional: Any saved searches you already use for media monitoring

If you already have a Brand Project set up, make sure to select it from Select a Project (top left corner).

 

Step 2: Prep

 

If you already have a journalist in mind, skip ahead to Step 3.

If you don’t, use Mira or the Meltwater Agent to identify the right media contact:

  1. Prompt:

    What publication would be most relevant to my brand?

    Mira will return a list of relevant publications.

  2. Choose the publication you’re most interested in, then prompt:

    Which journalist should I reach out to at [Publication Name]?

Once you’ve selected a journalist, you’re ready to build your media brief.

 

Step 3: Run the Prompt

 

In the Mira prompt box, copy and paste the prompt below. Wait for the content to fully load before making edits or follow-ups.

Prompt: Executive Media Brief

Create a media brief for [Journalist Name] ahead of their January interview with our CEO about [topic].
Include:

  • A short background on the journalist and outlet
  • Recent coverage trends related to our brand and this topic
  • Likely angles or questions the journalist may raise
  • Suggested talking points aligned to our strategy and messaging

 

Step 4: Review and Refine

 

Scan the brief and adjust as needed, simply prompt Mira or the Meltwater Agent to:

  • Add or remove sections based on the executive’s preferences
  • Tighten talking points for clarity
  • Ask a follow-up prompt if you want examples of tough questions or risk areas

This final version can be shared directly with your exec team ahead of the interview.
 

Step 5: Share What You Learned

 

Comment on this post with:

  • What surprised you about the journalist or coverage trends
  • How this changed your approach to executive prep
  • Any follow-up prompts you found helpful

You’ll receive your January AI Prompt Challenge Community Badge at month-end and 100 points toward become an mChampion.
 

 

Bonus: Share additional prompts you use for interview prep, kickoff events, or leadership messaging.

4 replies

Sofie KH
Influencer
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  • Influencer
  • January 20, 2026

Once again, a very useful prompt that we will definitely use again. For this challenge, I chose a journalist I know well, and the information is completely accurate. It will be a useful tool to use with new and foreign journalists!


kelly.bebenek
mEmployee
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  • Author
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  • January 20, 2026

​@Sofie KH Nice work Sofie!


Maria Dehne
mChampion Level 3
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  • mChampion Level 3
  • January 20, 2026

This challenge doesn’t really fit into how I currently use Meltwater, so I’m not sure I can participate this month? 


Will Swope
mChampion Level 3
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  • mChampion Level 3
  • January 20, 2026

Very good practice for media briefings and overall searches for journalists reporting on certain issues. I really liked how it gave some hobbies and interests to help personalize a pitch.

I was curious if the project setup would find certain details about members of our staff and senior leadership when I tried to optimize. On a few it was spot on, on others it was WAAAAAY OFF! A reminder, keep an eye on Mira and help guide the search. 

At first the prompt offered a fairly good brief. As I tried to fine tune it on tough questions or sensitive topics it started to give some pretty good insight and gave most of the questions I would expect, but also phrased a few in different ways that would be good to think about ahead of the interview.

In general, I like it as a gut check to make sure I’m already thinking of the curveballs that could come up and that I’ve done my homework on a reporter as much as they may have done on us.

I’m curious if anyone has tried to use this for influencers/podcasters or non-traditional journalists to see how a brief generated by Mira might work in that situation?