For beginners the mass-market commercial services are a good way to start. Company attitudes toward reporters vary. Private boards offer additional riches. Often connected by voluntary networks that feed messages across the United States and Canada, and to all of Europe and Asia, private boards are run by individuals and organizations. Phone numbers can be found through local computer shops and clubs, and are posted on almost every commercial and private board.
Journalists are free to join the fray.
This board attracts a variety of callers, many of whom are writers. Second, always identify yourself as a reporter. Third, do not use quotes and anecdotes that you have picked up by reading general conference conversation without asking permission of the senders. Finally, stay aware that you will be talking mostly with white, educated, well-off men.