[cma-l] Do you have a good relationship with your local press?

[Tony Wilding]

Very negative really of your local press, we have always had a good 
relationship with ours (at times their editor was part of our organisation, 
which was a big plus.

I guess the best thing then is to make something newsworthy that they must 
cover.  Be involved in fundraising for other community/charities events that 
the paper normally covers.

Get involved at a local level with whats going on (school fetes etc), its 
not essentially going to be about you, but you may get a mention if you push 
the organisers etc. At least wear sweatshirts with the station logo, have 
banners displayed etc (make sure they get in our photo shot) - get to know 
the photographers (who may be freelancers and open to favours in return).

Here's an example of a project I made the imaging for:
http://www.bcpsonline.org.uk/BCPSOnAir/BCPSOnAirLaunchDay.html

Unfortunately the station director (HR) did not want us pictured as I had 
used the studio facilties without permission (hence I now have my own 
studio).

Kind Regards Tony