Arranging Media Coverage

• Secrets to Successful Media Work
• Arranging Media Coverage for a Speaking Tour
• Arranging Media Coverage for Delegations
• Arranging Media Coverage for an Event

Working with
Print Media

• Writing Press Releases
• Sample Press Release
• Interview Guidelines
• Writing an Op-Ed Piece
• Arranging an Editorial Board Meeting

Helpful Resources for
Media Work

• Media Resource List
• Public Relations Resources
• International and Ethnic Resources
• Internet News Search Engines
• Living Media

• Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba
• CNY Witness for Peace

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Internet News Search Engines

When doing press work it is important to be able to track press coverage you are getting and identify reporters that have written on your story in the past. There are paid services that will do this or you can do news web searches.

Three search engines I use often for print news stories are:

• Google—www.google.com—Use the advanced news search
• Rocket News—http://www.rocketnews.com
• Daypop—http://www.daypop.com. Search 59,000 news sites, weblogs and RSS feeds for current or breaking news.

Search Engine Watch—http://searchenginewatch.com.

If you are still looking for news using "normal" search engines, stop doing it! You'll find the services below to be a much better way to search for the latest news stories from hundreds of sources on the web. These services provide exceptionally good results for current event searching, because they crawl only news sites and revisit these sites several times per day. Thus, the results are usually focused and timely. They list the top six news search engines.

Award Winners

Google News

Provides the ability to keyword search across thousands of news sources found through crawling the web, while also providing the ability to browse categories of news where headlines are assembled automatically. for Best News Search Engine from Search Engine Watch in 2002. (Review:, Oct. 2, 2002). http://news.google.com/

Yahoo News

Similar to Google News, you can keyword search across thousands of news sources found by Yahoo's news crawling partner, , as well as stories fed by major wire services and news partners. lets you browse categories of news, where articles and resources have been hand-assembled by Yahoo editors. for Best News Search Engine from Search Engine Watch in 2002. (Review: , July 30, 2003) http://news.yahoo.com/

AllTheWeb News

This service lets you keyword search against content gathered from news sites across the web. Advanced news search allows narrowing news sources to particular categories, such as sports or technology. for Best News Search Engine from Search Engine Watch in 2002. http://www.altheweb.com/

AltaVista News

This service lets you keyword search against news content found by sister-search engine AllTheWeb (above) and content supplied by major news partners such as the New York Times. Drop-down options under the search box make it easy to narrow results by news topic, world region or to some major news sources. Basic news headline browsing by category is also offered. for Best News Search Engine from Search Engine Watch in 2002. http://www.altavista.com/news/

Daypop

Daypop lets you keyword search through content it finds from crawling thousands of news sites throughout each day. You can also search through weblog content or information from RSS feeds for Best News Search Engine from Search Engine Watch in 2002. (Review, Sept. 10, 2003) http://www.daypop.com/