Resources

Communications Resources

Listed below is a sampling of vendors that provide services from hosting audio press conferences to creating a video news release. DISCLAIMER: This vendor list is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement of a specific company or their services.

Audio Press Conference Vendors

• Genesys Conferencing
  8020 Towers Crescent Drive
  Vienna, VA 22182
  Phone: 703/749-2500
  Fax: 703/749-2501
  www.genesys.com
  
  Provides services for audio press conferences, online meetings, desktop video conferences, telephone broadcasts and webcasts.
  
  
• Verizon Business Conferencing
  Phone: 800/475-5000
  http://e-meetings.mci.com
  
  Provides services for audioconferences, Web conferences and video conferences.

Broadcast Media Placement

• Mainstream Media Project
  Mark Sommer, Executive Director
  854 9th Street, Suite B
  Arcata, CA 95521
  Phone: 707/826-9111
  Fax: 707/826-9112
  www.mainstream-media.net
  
  Nonprofit strategic communications organization with services including radio bookings.
  
  
• Medialink
  529 14th Street NW, Suite 1230-A
  Washington, DC 20045
  Phone: 800/843-0677 (DC number 202/628-3800)
  Fax: 202/628-2377
  www.medialink.com
  
  Provides production and satellite distribution of video and audio news, multimedia webcasting services, press release newswire distribution, and photography production and digital distribution.

Media Tracking

• BurrellesLuce
  1120 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 225
  Washington, DC 20036
  Phone: 202/419-1850
  Fax: 202/419-1860
  www.burrellesluce.com
  
  Provides monitoring for all forms of media, including: press clips; Web, broadcast and same-day monitoring; and media analyses.
  
  
• LexisNexis
  LexisNexis Group
  P.O. Box 933
  Dayton, Ohio 45401-0933
  Phone: 800/227-9597 or 800/227-4908
  www.nexis.com
  
  Online subscription news tracking service with searchable full-text articles for most domestic print media, some broadcast transcripts, and increasingly foreign media as well. Does not include The Wall Street Journal.
  
  
• Video Monitoring Services
  1025 Vermont Avenue NW Suite 1110
  Washington, DC 20005
  Phone: 202/393-7110
  Fax: 202/393-5451
  www.vmsinfo.com
  
  Records and monitors television and radio broadcast news in over 100 top U.S. and international markets everyday. Costs for 1-5 minute segment: $110; 5-10 minute segment: $125; 10-30 minute segment: $165; 30-60 minute segment: $190; 60-90 minute segment: $265. All markets outside the top 100 cost more. Monitoring reports are available for the top 100 markets at $10. An additional charge for any program not regularly monitored. TV and radio transcripts are available: first 100 lines are $60, each additional line is $0.60.

Press Release Distribution Services

• Ascribe: The Public Interest Newswire
  National Press Building
  5464 College Avenue, Suite B
  Oakland, CA 94618
  Phone: 510/653-9400
  Fax: 510/597-3625
  E-mail: staffmail@ascribe.org
  www.ascribe.org
  
  Distributes the nonprofit and public sector news to the media via The Associated Press. Ascribe Newswire also feeds the news to major news retrieval database services, online publications, developers of Web sites and intranets.
  
  
• PR Newswire
  The Homer Building
  601 Thirteenth St., NW
  Suite 560 South
  Washington, DC 20005-1794
  Phone: 800/378-7112
  Fax: 888/776-6559
  www.prnewswire.com
  
  Includes national news distribution via newswire and video news releases (VNR).