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Resources & Tips


Having trouble with organizing those great ideas to pitch or just need a quick template to help you get what you need done? Use our Press Alert Generator and have a complete press alert in minutes!
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Most people don’t know that news sites often have “community calendars” where users can submit their own events or tips to be published on their site and in some cases featured in the day’s news broadcast or news publication.
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Submit press releases and media alerts to Chicago and other Midwest news outlets. A word of advice: Be selective when choosing news outlets to send your news too.
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Read profiles of journalists we’ve talked to and find out how to pitch them.
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Sign up for our E-Mail Newsletter to get updates on training, tips, events and other resources for nonprofits and journalists.
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Newstips is a service that distributes newstip information submitted by hundreds of nonprofits across Chicago. Over 500 journalists subscribe to this service as a reliable source for news and information.
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Find journalists contact information and use the included worksheets, tips and how-to articles to get your story out.
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Get the best and latest ideas on how to get your stories out from experts in the field and from journalists themselves.
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Make your organization visible and accessible on the web by submitting your nonprofit or search for other area nonprofits.
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    When I work with nonprofit leaders who are preparing for media  interviews, one of my first pieces of advice is, “Remember, you’re in control!” The media needs your help to tell the story, and you’re the expert on your organization’s issues. So, if that’s the case, why do we find ourselves floundering in media interviews, […]

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  • Let’s show them how global we are January 26, 2012
    For several days in May the world will know, we hope, what we know here. We are the world living here on this big lake with the large flat plains at our back. We come from everywhere and we are Chicago. Let me explain and let me ask your advice, also. From May 19 to […]
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