CONTENTS
- The News Media and Family Planning Programs
- Building a News Media Relations Program
- Developing a Strategy
- How to Tell the Family Planning Story
- Tools for Analysis
- Matching Your Message to the Medium
- Developing Materials that Interest Journalists
- Making News
- Dealing with Controversy
November, 1995
This report was prepared by Bryant Robey, M.A., and Paula Stauffer, M.H.S.Ward Rinehart, Editor. Stephen M. Goldstein, Managing Editor, Design by Linda D. Sadler. Production by Merridy Gottlieb coordinator.
The assistance of the following reviewers is appreciated: Winthrop P. Carty, Patrick Coleman, Cynthia P. Green, Sahar Hegazi, Nash Herndon, Izzat Hijab, M. Tajul Islam, Karungari Kiruga, Philippe Langlois, James McCarthy, Chris McKee, Alice Payne Merritt, Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, Malcom Potts, Jose G. Rimon, II, Peter W. Roberts, Cynthia Salter, Kristina Samson, J. Joseph Speidel, Thomas W. Valente, Clayton T. Vollan, and Edson Whitney.
Suggested citation: Ropey, B., Ross, J., and Stauffer, P. Helping the news media cover family planning. Population Reports, Series J, No. 42. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Population Information Program, November 1995.
This report was made possible by support from G/PHN/POP/CMT, Global, US Agency for International Development, under the terms of Grant No. DPE-A-00-90-00014-00. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Agency for International Development or the Johns Hopkins University.
Center for Communication Porgrams
The Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health
Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, Ph.d., Director, Center for Communication Programs and Principal Investigator, Population Information Program
Ward Rinehart, Project Director, Population Information Program
Anne W. Compton, Deputy Director, Population Information Program, and Chief, POPLINE computerized bibliographic services
Hugh M. Rigby, Associate Director, Population Information Program, and Chief, Media/Materials Clearinghouse
Jose G. Rimon II, Deputy Director, Center for Communication Programs and Project Director, Population Communication Services, developing family planning communication strategies, projects, training, and materials
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This report was made possible by support from
G/PHN/POP/CMT, Global, US Agency for International Development, under the terms of Grant No.
DPE-A-00-90-00014-00. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Agency
for International Development or the Johns Hopkins University.
