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Strategic Public Relations

Reaching The Media

Introduction
This toolkit will assist you in putting all of the strategic research, planning, message development and writing you've completed thus far to good use. With your media list in hand, a distribution system intact, and the written information you’ll provide to reporters—as well as carefully chosen spokespeople—you’re ready to pitch a story idea, do interviews with the media, and, if needed, to plan a press conference. In this tutorial, you'll learn about:

Pitching and placing a story idea
Preparing for interviews
Organizing a press conference

To learn more about getting to the media effectively, click on Pitching Overview in the column to the left to continue this tutorial page by page, or select another toolkit from the links to the left.

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