Looking for a press release format to borrow

[MelissaTX]

I am gearing up for getting my story printed in the Houston Chronicle, the paper for the 4th largest city in the US. There are also some local papers (Galveston Daily News) and I want to try to get the news channels to cover the story.

 

Does anyone have a press release that they have written about Cushing's? I figured I would want one that told my story in bullets along with Cushing's facts. I want to send these out next week.

 

Please post any you have here for me.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

Hugs,

Melissa

[~MaryO~]

Have you looked in the "In the Media" pages of the website:

 

MEDIA: Many of our members have been featured in the media. Read the articles here.

• Amanda.
  • Newspaper article. Read that here.
    
  • On CBS affiliate in Cape Girardeau, KFVS. Read the transcript here.
    

  [*]AutumnOMA April 8, 2006, National Cushings Awareness Day Holds Special Meaning for Local Woman

  [*]Carrin Ketchum will soon be getting control of her life after a longtime illness that caused sudden gain in weight, hypertension and more

  [*]Camille K, who had Cushing's and endonasal pituitary surgery, was on CBS NEWS February 27, 2002!

  [*]Cheryl F, CUSH Vice President, in The Oklahoman, March, 2006

  [*]Claudette, Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Conley), Jun 17, 2006

  [*]Denise, Shreveport Times, July 16, 2007

  [*]Dr. Dori Middleman

  • How To Have Fun With A Brain Tumor
    
  • Interview on a Philadelphia-area public radio talkshow, Voices in the Family, about Cushing's Disease and how to make meaning out of illness and adversity.
    

  [*]Jaimie was interviewed for TV This link includes both text and Quicktime video with options to download to your computer, iPod or your mobile device

  [*]Jayne's local newspaper: Cushing's didn't rob woman of her fertility

  [*]Karen Nolan (rooon55), MedfordNews, May 15, 2006

  [*]Kate (Fairley) and Dr. Ted F., National Geographic TV, September 2007

  [*]Kelli: Against all odds: The story of a miracle.

  [*]Laura and Jayne's local newspaper: After years, mystery ills diagnosed

  [*]Lee Udall Bennion in the news.

  [*]Lisa E in the news.

  [*]Lorrie's local paper published her story.

  [*]MaryO

  • This site in the cover story of Forbes Magazine, Best of the Web Issue
    
  • Interviewed by PBS Voices of Vision at the Philadelphia Endocrine Convention.
    
  • MaryO was interviewed also for Lorri's local paper.
    
  • MaryO was interviewed also for SuziQ's local paper.
    

  [*]Sharmyn

  [*]Sharmyn on Montel

  • "Mystery Diagnosis" featuring Cushing's has returned to the Discovery Health Channel. Sharmyn McGraw (Sharm on the boards), long-time patient advocate tells her story.
    
  • Woman's Day magazine, March 9, 2003 issue
    

  [*]Steve (sowens), NewsRadio 1190 KEX, May 21, 2006

  [*]Sue (SuziQ) was featured in her local paper.

  [*]Tammie was featured in her local paper.

  [*]Other Media Articles.

  • Ann Arbor, MI, Oregon, January 15, 2004
    
  • Family Circle, February 2, 1993
    
  • PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), Washington Post, January 18, 1999
    
  • Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon, January 15, 2004
    

[ikho1967]

Here is a format I googled... it is pretty good. You really want to keep it to one page and focus on a hook... not the whole story... rather a piece of the story. And write it in article form rather than old fashioned press release style.

 

Also, the press release I wrote with OHSU is under Mary O's Lisa E. in the news. (Thanks Mary :.) I think I'd figure a pregnancy/rare disease angle.

 

Good luck, Lisa E.

[sowens]

Listen to Lisa E....Jaimie and her got me on the radio =p