A brief letter inviting reporters and editors to use your department as a resource for anthropological, biological, archeological, social and behavioral science information. Offer to refer requests you cannot answer to Susan Skomal, AAA Press Officer. Begin monthly mailings to your press contacts. Keep them informed on new and ongoing research, projects, lectures, local digs, and so on. Please be accessible and prompt.
Journalists are on savage deadlines.
8.We have found journalists to be almost pathalogically conscientious. They always appreciate help with story lines, and with breaking jargon into ordinary prose. They will appreciate your interest and input. Reprinted with permission of the Anthropology Newsletter, American Anthropological Association. Merry Bruns, Dir.