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Did You Know?
> Attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala have doubled over the last five years. NISGUA's teams of on-the-ground international human rights monitors work to deter violence in communities, courtrooms and at public events. > Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled during the bloodiest period of the war, currently holds a seat in the Guatemalan Congress. He is wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity. > The Xalalá hydro-electric dam is rejected by 90% of the local population because it would displace thousands of indigenous people and damage farmlands and forests. > Almost 400 mining concessions have been granted to transnational gold, silver, nickel, and zinc companies in Guatemala, posing severe threats to rural communities' social and environmental well-being. | |
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printer-friendlyReach the Media
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Media Relations Guidelines
1. Learn to think like a reporter
- Understand what reporters find "newsworthy"
- Find the local angle
2. Make it easy for the reporters to get your side of the story
- Assume that reporters are busy or lazy or both
- Be available
- Make sure reporters know how to reach you
- Return calls promptly
- Be accurate and modest
- Be consistent
- Be sensitive to deadlines
3. Cultivate relationships with individual reporters
- Be friendly
- Be helpful
- Provide facts and contacts
- Provide ideas for stories
4. Be persistent without being a pest
- Even if the local paper ignored your last event, tell them about
your next one
- Let them know when they make mistakes but don't accuse them of malicious intent
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