Contents of Newsworthy

Newsworthy

What is and is not newsworthy?
Awards ceremony and disability awareness exercises—NOT News
What is hot in your community? Medicaid? Employment?
Hunger? Occupy?
Mainstream media wants human interest—you pitch human interest that is NOT supercrip or pity.
Learn to write press release/ LEDE, 1 page
opinion piece
letter to editor campaign—Most widely read part of newspaper