Press Releases Remain Essential For Media Coverage

An alarming report
was released recently
regarding the rate
and extent of climate change.

There was very little
media coverage on it.

Because it was
written for scientists
in the field
and made no sense
to anyone else
(including me).

And there was no
press release
summarizing it
and
translating it
into everyday
aka media friendly
language.

If you want
the media to cover
a topic,
you need to talk to them
in THEIR language.

Write a press release.
Give it to someone
outside your industry.
Ask them what it says.

If they don’t understand it,
the average person,
the media’s target audience,
likely won’t understand it.

That means the media
won’t be interested in it.

If We Want To Be Talked About

There are writers
who complain
the Romance genre
isn’t covered enough
by the media.
It is the largest genre
(depending on the stats provided)
and it should be mentioned
when other genres are mentioned.

But then, these same writers
complain when Romance is covered
by media
negatively,
when it is criticized.

We can’t have it
both ways.
Either we welcome media coverage
and we accept there will be
some negative coverage
or
we don’t accept
there will be negative coverage
and we don’t get media coverage.

This is true of all groups
and all demographics.

If we want to be talked about,
we have to accept
there will be negative talk.