On 3 Jan 2010, at 10:44, Brian McNeil wrote: >> I have moved material around to get the punch into the first para. >> "Mary >> Rose" is good: on everyone's radar, apparently. > > Are press releases going onto any of the semi-junk freebie pseudo- > wires? > There's several of these turn up in Google News results. > > How are the current recipients of issued press releases managed? Is > there a distribution list? How would, say, a blogger go about > subscribing to WMUK news?
At the moment, we just email the press releases to those that we've been in contact with (i.e. they've previously gotten in touch with us to talk to us about a Wikipedia story). We don't have a wider distribution list yet, aside from the blog. Is it worth moving to having a press-releases mailing list that people can subscribe to, in addition to sending them out to appropriate specific journalists? If anyone has any suggestions of contacts/organizations to send press releases to, please let me know offlist. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
