[fdn-ann] Markoff/NYT called
- From: "Barbara Heffner" <bheffner chenpr com>
- To: foundation-announcement gnome org
- Subject: [fdn-ann] Markoff/NYT called
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:52:01 -0400
Hello everyone: The folks at Eazel have alerted us that today they got a
call from John Markoff at the New York Times. John is apparently on to the
announcement and wants to run a story on Monday. We think it is unlikely
that he can be dissuaded from holding it until Tuesday. That is how
reporters get beat to stories.
We are suggesting that Miguel speak with him tomorrow to give him an
overview of the announcement. Since he is apparently calling down the list
of participants in the advisory, we'd like to help him get to the right
people. So here is the list of contact information that we would like to
send. We've limited this to one person per organization, because I suspect
John will have little patience for a long list. It is a subset of the
contact list that we'll provide in the press kits at the event.
You will rightly ask what does this mean for the Monday pre-brief
strategy. We'd like to move this up a day, and call the top tier targets
and alert them that we have gotten some calls based on the advisory going
out. Some will take us up on interviews, some won't, but at least they
can't come back and say we didn't give them a chance. This is the list of
pubs we'd like to alert tomorrow: WSJ, the Merc, SF Chron, Dow Jones wire,
Reuters, Bloomberg, AP and CNET. On the wires and CNET, we'll stick to
late in the day, to avoid a story tomorrow.
If you would prefer that we not pass along your contact info to John,
please let us know. Thanks...Barb
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