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nettie



Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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Location: Suffolk
PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 04 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

jema wrote:
remember newspapers and magazines are actually struggling to find stories! they actually do want to know.

jema


Not where I come from, they wait for the stories to drop on their desks (complacent and boring Essex Chronicle - who I work for). We need to put the stuff in front of them.

mrsnesbitt



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1576

PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 04 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I was featured in the Independent around 1995.in our garden with the nuclear air raid siren and our geese..looked alsmost a juxtapositional moment!

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hope it goes well on Saturday

Gervase



Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nettie's dead right. Local newspapers in particular are often guilty of laziness, which makes them ripe for careful exploitation. All too often they're run on a shoestring budget with a largely trainee staff who don't have the time or the contacts to go out and find out what's happening, so they depend on the press release and the weekly police and fire checks to fill the pages.
All of which means that if you've got something to say, tell them. Read the paper to get a feel for the sort of local angles that ring the right bells, then send in a pithy press release about what you're doing that rings those bells. Keep it short and pithy (if you can't get their interest in 250 words, don't bother), include a couple of decent quotes and contact details and then follow up with a phone call to the newsdesk early in the week and you stand a good chance of getting your story in. And remember, people stories and pictures will always stand more chance than issue stories and pictures, so keep it personal.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

So come on Gervase, ex journo and all that...

Gervase



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Me? Like Catholicism, journalism's something I gave up for Lent some years back. I'll do you a how-to guide to press releases in the next day or so when the mixer's done the next batch of lime plaster. Meanwhile, it's back to being the Limestone Cowboy...

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


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