On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Grant Bowman <[email protected]> wrote: > Did the Canonical press releases regarding Jaunty [1] get distributed > over PR Newswire or Business Wire in the US? > > Thanks, > > -- > -- Grant Bowman <[email protected]> > -- California LoCo > > > [1] desktop: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop > netbook: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-unr > server: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-server
I'll take the silence as a negative answer. I've done some checking. Background: In the US there are specialist wire services specializing in just press releases, specifically PR Newswire and Business Wire. One can pay to get a press release sent on these. However distribution doesn't mean that stories are "picked up". Media organizations may publish/run it or they might cut it up and run only a portion. There are also specialized wire services for feature stories: AP, UPI and Reuters. These have content written by newspaper reporters and journalists who work for those news wire organizations. It is more difficult to get something sent across these wire services as there is little direct control but I think most of these journalists have access to the press release wires. Impact: I feel distributing the press releases in the US is an important step in reaching all US (perhaps wider) press outlets and raising Ubuntu's exposure. More than Red Hat or SuSE Enterprise Linux is being used in the US though it's hard for average journalists to tell if only Red Hat, Fedora & Novell are sending press releases. The cost to distribute a press release via the PR Newswire or Business Wire is a few hundred dollars per press release depending on exactly how it's distributed. Surely the impact of this could be widely leveraged by all LoCos in the US and beyond. Are there any further thoughts on how to make this happen for Karmic? -- -- Grant Bowman <[email protected]> -- California LoCo -- Ubuntu-us mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us
