Media Outreach Strategy

ORIENTATION | Fellowship in Law, Human Rights and Patient Care

MARY JOYCE | for the Open Society Institute’s Health Media Initiative | October 9, 2009 | Tbilisi

To play the media game just remember:

What does that mean?

Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

1) Who’s on your media

team?

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Supervisor

Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

2) Define a goal

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Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

3) Identify Audience

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Patient

Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

4) Define the message

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Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

Patient

5) Choose your Media

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Blog TV Radio News-

paper

Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

6) Execute outreach.

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send your message to the media.

blog/ press release

Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

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Media Strategy: THE OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

1: Plan Outreach

....until you achieve your advocacy goal

2: ExecuteOutreach

Goal

3: EvaluateOutreach

Advocacy Goal

8. Repeat 1 to 7 New campaign

7. Evaluate What worked/didn’t?

6. Execute Contact media

5. Media Where is your audience?

4. Message What do you want to tell them?

3. Audience Who do you want to talk to?

2. Goal What do you want campaign to achieve?

1. Team Who will do media outreach?

Media Strategy: EXAMPLE

To play the media game just remember:

Thank

you!