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Media communication 101: Before you front the media, get your facts straight. http://goo.gl/RwdPv5
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Posted by Doug Weller
Interesting to view the changing style of TV news coverage. Here is an ITN news bulletin following the birth of Prince William about 30 year ago. Interesting when compared with today’s royal birth media circus.
To view: http://goo.gl/wRzoZG
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By Doug Weller
Have you ever wondered how to build relationships with journalists?
It is important that you build and maintain strong, professional and mutually beneficial relationships with journalists. If your organisation has a media or public relations division, work with and be guided by, these media professionals to facilitate this process.
Most journalists work in a high pressured, competitive environment. They are always looking for a good story, photograph or TV/ Video footage.
To obtain good stories, journalists need ‘good contacts’; people who can be a useful resource for providing information and messages.
Sometimes journalists will approach you for information (eg. in a crisis), at other times you will contact the journalist with a message you want to deliver through the media.
When contacting journalists, try to find an angle in your message that will appeal to them. Make sure you get to your point or key message and repeat it (remember they are under time pressure).
Know the deadlines for publications and radio/TV programs you wish to target. Journalists will be impressed if you ask them directly for this information as it shows you have made an effort to understand their work environment.
Taking the time to know what journalists want and need will help you and your organisation develop better relationships. This will in turn, improve your chance of getting your message used in the media.
Under no circumstances should you ever argue with journalists. In his autobiography ‘OPEN’, Tennis Champion Andre Agassi commented on his lack of media savvy early in his career. He noted that no one had advised him not to “snap” at journalists because it resulted in them becoming “rabid”. Without this knowledge he paid the price in bad publicity and media criticism.
Always remember you are communicating with your target audience through the media.
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| 01/10/2016 | The Spotlight Effect | Media Training Magazine | Brian Johnson, Doug Weller quoted |
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| 10/11/2010 | New Media – Old Rules – How one quick quip can destroy your reputation | Articlesbase | Doug Weller |
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| 23/01/2008 | Finding the right voice | Herald Sun | Paula Beauchamp |
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| 01/11/2007 | Busting the Media Myths | AAA | Doug Weller |
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| 01/07/2006 | ‘Living Spirit’: Muslim Women and Human Rights Forum – Doug Weller Presenter |
Human Rights Commission | Editor |
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| 01/02/1993 | Here is the News | Herald Sun | Editor |
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| 15/02/1993 | ABC makes a new start | Herald Sun | Editor |
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| 07/02/1993 | ABC Close to 24-hour News Plan | Herald Sun TV Extra | Editor |
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| 06/02/1993 | Saddam on Toast | TV Week | Editor |
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| 05/02/1993 | Breakfast at Aunty’s | The Age Green Guide | Editor |
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| 01/12/1989 | Is Washington ready for Doug? | Queensland Wireless News | Editor |
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| 01/12/1989 | Weller’s away to Washingtion | Gold Coast Bulletin | Editor |
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| 01/12/1989 | Overseas Posting | Unknown | Editor |
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Video Title: Doug Weller reading ABC 7pm Television News Bulletin and reporting on CRA Stike
Date: 1995
File details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alXj0YI2zBE
Duration: 02:41 minutes
Produced by: ABC Television News
Transcript:
As the industrial storm gathers pace distraught employers have this plea to ACTU secretary Bill Kelty.
Bill, don’t do it. This is not in the interest of this country and it’s certainly not in the interest of your members.
Emotion to from staff at Weipa who have refused to sign the company contracts and missed out on massive pay rises.
I declined the offer because i didn’t want to give up my rights of union representation or to bargain collectively.
The industrial action is now across the board. At midnight CRA coal miners in Queensland and New South Wales walked off the job for forty eight hours.
From tomorrow there will be a five day strike at all major ports.
By Tuesday a week long shutdown of the entire mining industry is proposed.
As well, next week, workers in the power, oil and chemical industries will begin targeting CRA.
The manufacturing sector will also become involved. So will transport
employees and the campaign may soon spread to other companies.
Teachers are ready to join.
This dispute, let me make it very clear is primarily targeted at the activities of a bully boy company that had got away with quite a bit and we’ve
decided now that they can’t get away with no more.
The ACTU’s fight is with CRA and its subsidiary Comalco but its also with the Arbitration Commission.
The union body wants the commission to act to tidy up loop holes which it claims are allowing the individual contracts issue to get out of hand.
If the commission fails to act, then the ACTU wants the federal government to intervene directly something its failed to do so far.
Industrial Relations Minister Laurie Brereton wants the company to back down.
I mean it is a pathetic performance by a Minister who is out of control.
Commerce and Industry say the issue must be resolved before it spirals out of control.
There will be boards considering investment decisions that affect Australia and they will be considering competing locations and they’ll just tend to put the proposal for Australia aside I would guess.
The five day stoppage on the waterfront will cost about a hundred million
million dollars to both ship owners and cargo owners and of course further damage our international trading reputation.
Oh yes, no doubt, you do get, we do hear quite a lot of the time the flow of goods through our ports is quite a worry to many exporters.
CRA executives have been involved in meetings all day but so far have no public comment.
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Video Title: Doug Weller reading ABC 7pm Television News Bulletin and reporting on Equal Pay Equal Work Dispute
Date: 1995
File details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BdORpQjy2U
Duration: 02:44 minutes
Produced by: ABC Television News
Transcript:
With Australia on the verge of all-out industrial confrontation the Industrial
Ccommission summon the warring parties to Sydney after less than two hours a breakthrough
The ACTU has undertaken to use its best endeavours to remove the impact of the current industrial disputation and particularly in so far as it effects the waterfront and the coal industry generally
Well we’re a lot further down the track than we were yesterday
Total impasse yesterday with moves by the company late last night
and i think uh… we were certainly very heartened by the intervention
of the President of the Commission and the comments she made
I am leaving with a lot of hope
Before this afternoon’s development virtually every sector of commerce and industry were bracing for industrial unrest
That threat is now being withdrawn but not for CRA
But in all instances action that is current and planned will continue against CRA
This doesn’t surprise the company but it’s pleased the wider action is being wound down
It was sad that it happened in the first place and unnecessary because uh… we have consistently made it clear that we are in agreement
that the concept of collectively bargaining and further on the principle of uh…equal pay for work of equal value
The next stage in this saga will be played out here in Sydney on Monday morning when the full bench of the Commission meets to hear the Weipa case
Now the former Prime Minister Bob Hawke will act as the ACTU’s chief advocate
Talks will take place in Sydney over the weekend between the former Prime Minister and senior ACTU officials.
From Japan the only comment from the Prime Minister’s camp
was surprise at the Hawke development
No doubt Mr Keating is also embarrassed his former rival has been
brought in to resolve a dispute the Prime Minister thought he had solved.
Opposition Leader John Howard says it’s clear Messrs Kelty, Keating, Brereton and Ms George have fallen into an industrial
black hole, and Bob Hawke has put up his hand to bail them out.
As for the Weipa strikers they’ll settle for nothing less than equal pay for equal work
Nothing’s gonna change, the company is not gonna try and bait us with any half deals of anything.
We’ve said right from the onset equal pay for equal work and that’s what we intend to sit here to do the whole way through.
Waterside workers are expected to vote to return to work within twenty four hours It’s also expected the national coal strike set to begin tomorrow has
been averted.
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Video Title: Doug Weller on ABC Television First Edition Current Affairs Program interviewing guest about Tuberculosis
Date: 1993
File details:
WMV 1.9MB https://www.corporatemediaservices.com.au/videos/abc_first_edition.wmv
MP4 5.8MB https://www.corporatemediaservices.com.au/videos/abc_first_edition.mp4
FLV: 4.9MB https://www.corporatemediaservices.com.au/videos/abc_first_edition.flv
Duration: 01:18 minutes
Produced by: ABC First Edition
Transcript:
Across Australia you’re with First Edition
Outbreaks of tuberculosis have commonly been thought
to be a thing of the past relegated to history.
But there are fears now that we haven’t really conquered
this sometimes fatal disease.
One hundred and eighteen Telecom workers
from a suburban Melbourne branch were
recently tested for TB after one possibly two
co-workers came down with it.
The result nine tested strongly
positive and dozens more showed signs of
exposure.
Now while this could simply be a result
of former vaccinations, health
authorities are not being complacent
with us now is Doctor Brian Dwyer.
Dr Dwyer specializes in TB research and
until last year was head of the Turberculosis
Centre at the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital.
Good Morning
Good Morning
Now for those who don’t know what TB is
and how it affects us can you just give us
a bit of a run through there.
Sure, TB is caused by a germ which is
sensitive to antibiotics.
it’s transmitted from one person to another
through one person who has active infection
causing disease in the lungs being able to cough
out infectious particles into the air which other
people can then inhale and become infected.
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Video Title: Doug Weller reading ABC 7pm Television News Bulletin and reporting on Shop Stealing Story
Date: 1995
Duration: 02:32 minutes
Produced by: ABC Television News
Transcript:
Tonight. Christmas crime Shop stealing takes the joy from retailers
Face to face Britain and the IRA talk peace.
And an air borne invasion of the Chinese Consulate.
Good evening, Doug Weller sitting in for Sue MacIntosh with ABC news.
There’s wide-spread concern tonight about the huge amount of goods being stolen in the run-up to Christmas.
As Australia enters its peak shopping season retailers say they’re losing tens of millions of dollars through shop stealing.
The problem is made worse by an increase in shop stealing gangs which are targeting shopping centres across the nation.
The christmas shopping season is in full swing.
Christmas crowds, Christmas sales but also Christmas Crime.
Bob Frayne Retail Traders’ Association ‘It is very widespread across the community we believe its a community problem
And it’s costing Australia’s retailers a fortune.
In New South Wales Victoria and Queensland it’s around one million
dollars a day for each state and about half a million dollars a day in the other states and territories
And shoplifting is now becoming more sophisticated.
The Retail Traders Association says shoplifting gangs are on the increase and they are made up of adults and children and they’re costing the industry millions.
It could be a distraction of the shopkeeper, others are stealing goods or it could be a very violent and agressive customer who is able to put it over the shopkeeper while others steal.
The association says improved electronic surveillance is helping battle
shop stealing, much still goes undetected.
There’s been another historic step towards peace in Northern Ireland.
The IRA’s political wing Siin Fein has held formal talks with the British government.
The advance comes just one hundred days after the IRA declared its cease-fire.
This report from the ABC’s Neil Ross,
Leaving the Falls Road, Sinn Fein’s delegation.
Three of the five are former IRA prisoners hardliners chosen to reassure Republicans they are not being sold out.
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Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.ukBritish daily broadsheet newspaper
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Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)https://www.sbs.com.auAustralia’s multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster
The Age
https://www.theage.com.au/
Victoria’s daily online newspaper
The Australian
https://www.theaustralian.com.au
Australia’s daily online newspaper
The Courier Mail
https://www.couriermail.com.au
Queensland’s daily tabloid online newspaper
The Sydney Morning Herald
https://www.smh.com.au
New South Wales daily online newspaper
Wikipedia – Media of Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Australia
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