How to Talk to Reporters: An Introduction

For seven years, Shawn Malone was a news reporter and anchor for KLBJ radio in Austin, Texas, and an occasional columnist for local weekly newspapers. After that, he spent 17 years working for elected and appointed local officials who needed to know how to talk to reporters. Based on that experience, research into best practices, and interviews with subject matter experts, this short video lays out the fundamentals ...

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Thanks to Tina Morton, Steven Broberg, Gene Acuna and others who contributed to the content of this video. If you'd like to engage on this topic (or arrange for a lecture on this subject) click on the Contact Shawn Malone link and use the email form.

Shawn is quoted in this article in County magazine, written after after he gave this lecture to a workshop of the National Association of County Information Officers.