- NEWS COVERAGE
- In order for The Crimson to have a successful relationship with your
organizations, it is important to keep communication open and consistent.
We encourage you to activeky inform us of your initiatives, plans and
events. For a daily story, call 576-6565 (after 2 p.m. is best)
and ask to talk to the dayslotter, or you can e-mail news@thecrimson.harvard.edu
or fax 576-9393. For longer term stories and features, contact the
news executives directly. For questions concerning news coverage or to
talk about a major problem, please contact Managing Editor Andrew
Chang (aschang@fas,
3-3273).
- PRESS RELEASES
- Press releases are a recommended way to announce larger initiatives
that your group might be working on, such as trying to start up an Ivy
League black student union, bringing grapes back to the dining hall or
forming an Asian American study group. They are also very effective for
election results. Press releases are recommended to be at least three to
four paragraphs long detailing salient points. They should also contain
contact names, emails and phone numbers for reporters to follow up on.
Press releases can be e-mailed or faxed.
- COMMUNICATING WITH REPORTERS
- On the record: Once a reports has identified him/herself as a
reporter, it is understood that your conversation is on the record and may
be quoted in the newspaper. This is the normal basis for communicating
with a reporter.
- On background: Also known as "not for attribution," information
you provide "on background" may be used in the newspaper, but you will not
be fully named. Please be very clear when the reporter about how you, the
source, may be described (e.g. "a senior close to the search
process").
- Off the recod: "Off the record" information by itself cannot be
used in the newspaper.
- THE EDITORIAL PAGE
- The Harvard Crimson's editorial page
is the forum for campus dialogue. We encourage you, as student group
leaders, to submit opinion pieces about the issues that face your group
and about the work your group is doing.
- If you or a member of your group is interested in writing for the
page, please contact one of the co-editorial chairs for 1998, Dan
Suleiman '99 (dsuleim@fas, 3-2760) or Geoff
Upton '99 (gupton@fas,
3-2754).
- The Crimson also welcomes your letters, correcting, criticizing and
otherwise responding to our coverage. Send all letters to letters@thecrimson.harvard.edu.
- THE HARVARD CRIMSON
- In addition to being a newspaper, The Harvard Crimson is an active
student organization. The officers for the 1998 year are president
Matthew Granade '99 and vice-presidents Robert Coolbrith '99 and Jennifer
Lee '99. Any of them can speak on the relationship between The Crimson
and your organization.
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