Got good news? Then by all means share it! Here are some options. Take a look at old issues of the publications below. It's the best way to figure out what to send where. You can always contact media relations for assistance.
To share news using SJSU This Week, Facebook, Twitter and/or Washington Square magazine, please submit a News I'd Like to Share form to media relations. The deadline is two weeks before you would like the news distributed.
SJSU This Week, the university e-newsletter, is the way to go if you have something you'd like to share with everyone at San José State. Media relations edits submissions from across campus into a single newsletter, which we email every Monday to all 5,000 employees plus 600 journalists, neighbors, civic leaders, job applicants and anyone else who signs up for a subscription. "SJSU This Week" usually begins with top news stories, and ends with a pride-building roundup of student, faculty and staff achievements. Top stories are posted on the university's homepage under "news." Submit your material. Subscribe to SJSU This Week.
Spartan Daily and Update News, the student newspaper and TV news program, are likely to take an interest in your story because San José State is their top priority.
Send an e-mail or call with a prepared pitch no longer than 100 words ending with a Web site for more information. Be persistent. These students are busy and always on deadline. Spartan Daily is published Monday through Thursday, with daily Web site updates. Update News is broadcasted live over the campus cable TV system on Fridays. The Department of Journalism and Mass Communications oversees both programs. Contact the Spartan Daily at 408-924-3281. Contact Update News at 408-924-7450.
Trade publications and community newspapers are great places for news that impacts a particular professional group or neighborhood. We're talking about groundbreaking approaches to familiar teaching challenges, important but highly technical research and service projects in specific communities.
Come up with a short list of the trade publications and community newspapers you respect most and check out their submissions policies. You can always contact media relations for help, and should do so if you plan to submit to community newspapers. We'll help you prepare a pitch and send it. Remember, media relations is the only office on campus authorized to send university news releases.
If you've made it down this far, you're after much more! Major regional and national newspapers, TV and radio news programs are wonderful because they reach millions of people. But it's incredibly difficult to get a professional journalist to commit. So save your energy for stories that have the most potential. How do you know when you have such a story?
Journalists like:
For the San José Mercury News and Bay Area TV stations, the news needs to resonate with folks from Salinas to Napa. Need examples? Visit SJSU in the News. If you think you've got such a story, we want to hear from you! We'll help you prepare a pitch and send it. Remember, media relations is the only office on campus authorized to send university news releases.
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