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What’s a Press Conference?

Politicians, celebrities, athletes, businessmen/women etc. hold press conferences to get the news and information out to a group of journalists. One-stop shop.

Mayors hold lots of press conferences

People like former NY governor Eliot Spitzer do damage control via the press conference.

When covering a press conference, VERY IMPORTANT: Don’t write a chronological re-telling of what happened. That’s called transcription. Choose what’s MOST interesting! That’s the goal of journalism.

What to Bring u. Yourself u. Note pad and pen/pencil. u. Recording device u. Camera for photographs

What does a quote provide? Adds color Makes story lively! Lets the subject speak for himself or herself. Supports the main point of the paragraph without repeating it. • Less writing for you! • •

Three Picky Things to Remember About Quotes: 1. Put punctuation inside the quote marks. “I love you, ” she told her boyfriend. NOT “I love you”, she told her boyfriend. 2. Use the last name after the first mention. Marvelyn Brown visited City College. “I love the school, ” said Brown. 3. Best to break up quotes: “Journalism is so interesting, ” said Nancy Valdez. “That’s why I chose it for my major. ”

Hillary Clinton has decided to leave her office as the country’s Secretary of State. “Now that I am jobless, I am not sure what I plan to do, ” said Clinton, from her home in New York. “But I am not ruling out a run for the presidency in 2016. ”

In-class press conference 3/22 Rajul Punjabi, a former CCNY journalism instructor, now editor at Tonic, which is the part of Vice that focuses on health.