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  1. Building Media Relationships
    How to Establish, Maintain, and Develop Long-Term Relationships

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Sommers wrote this guide to teach how media can be used to raise an organization's public profile and improve its connection with the target audience.
  2. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  3. Expose Yourself!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    A booklet about effective media relations, providing practical advice about getting media coverage and relating to the media.
  4. Don Fenton
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
  6. Getting the most out of your Sources listing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
  7. Getting your story into the media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
    For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
  8. A Good File Never Forgets
    Improve your publicity awareness

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    Keep track of the calls you receive from the media. Don't rely on memory alone.
  9. Helping you reach the media
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
  10. How Embarassing when your messages unravel
    The Emperor's New Speak

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
  11. How many spokespersons?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    Speaking with one voice means your spokespersons should deliver the same message. It does not mean use only one spokesperson. If the news media representative knows your experts are available and reliable, you are more likely to be called and more importantly, to be believed.
  12. How to get the most out of your Sources Listing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    You get out what you put in! Extra attention to the content of your listing can result in more calls, more media awareness and greater success. The number of calls you'll receive from the media directly relates to the number, newsworthiness and specificity of your headings.
  13. How to Interview
    The Art of the Media Interview

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A guide to good interviewing.
  14. Learning how to live with editors
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
  15. Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
  16. Media Relations: The Ten Commandments
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
  17. Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
  18. Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
  19. Paul Tobey
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  20. Publicity and Media Resources
    Resource Type: Website
    Resources and publications to assist your organization in getting more and better media coverage and raising awareness.
  21. Publicity Plus
    Resource Type: Website
    How to maximize your media impact using Sources.
  22. Sources.com
    Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers

    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
    Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
    Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
  23. Sources Directory Name Index
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
  24. Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
  25. The Sources HotLink
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
  26. Sources Listings
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 1977
    Features thousands of experts, contacts and spokespeople willing to be interviewed by the media, and many articles, news releases, books, and other resources.
  27. Sources media training
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Media training to ensure that you are ready to handle media interviews. Topics include Message making, Staying newsworthy, Safe spokesperson techniques, Preparation and relaxation techniques, Media ethics and expectations. Simulations of all media venues including talk shows, double enders, stand-up interviews and scrums, print columnists, videographers, and editorial boards.
  28. Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    An information portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors, and researchers, focusing especially on human sources: experts and spokespersons who are prepared to answer reporters' questions or make themselves available for on-air interviews.
  29. Sources Select Links & Resources: Finding Contacts, Experts, Spokespersons
    Resource Type: Website
  30. Sources Subject Index - Comprehensive Topic Index for Experts and Spokespersons in Sources
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    A comprehensive list of subject headings related to organizations listed in the Sources directory for the news media.
  31. Speaking to the Media
    A special report from Sources with articles from The Sources HotLink

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Being seen, heard, and quoted in the media is perhaps the quickest, best, and most lasting way for a speaker to become better known and more sought after. This booklet offers advice on handling media calls and interviews well.
  32. Tips for Making the Call
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
  33. Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
  34. Top Ten Strategies for an Appearance in Front of an Editorial Board
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  35. The View from the Press Room
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    How charities can sell their stories to the media.
  36. When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
  37. When to Contact the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Advice on when to contact the media.
  38. Why I Am Listed in Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Over the years, I have turned to Sources time and time again to track down experts to interview for whatever newspaper or magazine article I happened to be researching at the time. So when the time came for me to position myself as an expert it was immediately obvious to me what I had to do: take out a listing in Sources.

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