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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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  • Can you reach millions with metro news? May 17, 2012
    With the rise of online news, traditional news has taken a huge hit in audience and circulation numbers in recent years, but in a major media market like Chicago, it is still the place where, yes, millions of people go for information. Just take a look at these numbers: Chicago Tribune - 414,590 average daily […]

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  • What we didn’t hear. Covering the NATO protests. May 22, 2012
    You couldn’t miss him. He made a striking image. He was covered in the shawls Jews wear for prayers, carried a long staff and shuffled slowly among the hundreds of marchers headed for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house in skimpy sandals. He said he was a modern-day Moses, waiting to lead the way for the […]
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