2009/11/30 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: > In other words (and I believe this to be entirely true) if you want to > "get the word out" through the media, you have to play the game their > way. Writing a competent press release is just a way of showing you know > what they want, and they certainly know what you want in terms of > getting into the papers. (WP is immensely fortunate that it has grown by > word-of-mouth, not hype.) But for this kind of thing you go along with > the game: don't be lengthy, and don't be boring, and if they want > corporate identity stuff you rely on them to ask. It's just about > getting them to contact you.
Yep, yep, yep. As I keep saying: these days I don't get upset when they get something wrong, I'm deliriously happy when they get anything right. Message: Wikinews exists, you can write for it. (subtext: small project, still room to get in on the ground floor. Citizen journalism. Neutrality and high standards, not polemic. Etc., etc.) [I've never managed to contribute too much to Wikinews - my experience of journalism is largely the polemical kind. I did get a photo of a terrorist suspect's house in there, 'cos it was just at the end of my street ...] - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
