If you and your colleagues are spending most of your time on news releases and very little time preparing for interviews, you may want to re-examine your priorities. Interviews are where the news is. And, when a story goes bad, the interview is more likely to be the cause than the news release.

– From “Monday Morning Media Minute” ezine published by Jerry Brown, APR, impact@rmi.net

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