Basic press release template:

Press Release

Contact:

List the person who can answer questions about the event, service.

Include person’s title on second line, then telephone number, including cell phone if applicable, on third line.

Date:

(For basic press releases, make sure you answer these questions.)

Who: (Always include Audubon Area Community Services before your full specific program name.)

What: (What event are you having, hosting, forming… also, make sure you include for whom the event is being held: ie: ages and income levels.)

Where: (Include full address where the event will take place.)

When: (Include beginning and ending time.)

Why: (What’s the purpose of this event?)

End the release with a little background information to promote your program or explain what your program does.

See Example Below:

Press Release:

Contact:

Name

Title

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September 22, 2004

Owensboro residents will gather at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Elizabeth Munday Center to kick-off a five-week series of study circles – By the People: Changing Faces, Changing Communities – that will address the impact of immigration on the area.

Eight study circles will take place once a week at various times and locations in Owensboro. Participants will discuss topics such as how immigration affects the economy, schools, housing and more. Information from these will then be condensed and presented at an Action Forum on Dec. 2 at the same location.

Anyone interested in participating in a study circle may contact Kathy Christie, executive director of Community Conversations Inc., one of the sponsors of the project, at 687-4630. Community Conversations is a nonprofit organization that promotes open dialogue on a variety of issues concerning Owensboro residents. Other sponsors of this project are the Owensboro Human Relations Commission, the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, WNIN and WEHT Channel 25.