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Hotline — Personalized, one-on-one service via e-mail, phone, and fax to help individual journalists find specific background information, experts, local contacts (e.g., farmers, chefs, companies, organic products) and story angles on a case-by-case, basis.
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In the News — Headlines and lede paragraph of recent news articles, linked to full articles on a separate page. |
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News releases — Headlines on new press releases from various organizations, indexed by issue, group, etc, and linked to the full release on separate page. |
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Hot Topics — A dynamic list of introductory paragraphs on current topics and trends, linked to full treatments on a separate Hot Topics page. |
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Data and statistics — Relevant sourced statistics and other data from published research provided by partner organizations. |
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News archives — Archive of articles from “In the News” page, and other news-related content such as weekly advisories and media events. |
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Keyword search — A basic online form for searching the SNC’s various databases and archives using keywords. |
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Glossary Definitions of frequently used sustainability terms . |
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Weekly news advisories — Direct food and agriculture news feed to editors, distributed by Ascribe. |
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Breaking news alerts — “Flash” alert messages for urgent “breaking” news stories. |
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Weekly e-newsletter — edited by SNC staff and designed to drive traffic to the website. The e-newsletter will include highlights from the week’s top news stories, an issue briefing, facts, experts, and links to related news and issues on the site. |
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Media events — Press briefings at local venues or phone-in press conference calls on specific “hot” issues. |
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Calendar of events — A continuously updated list of events related to organic and sustainable agriculture occurring throughout the nation.
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Newsmaker profiles — SNC-produced profiles of farmers, entrepreneurs, activists, and ordinary citizens who are doing new and interesting things in the organic and sustainable agriculture field. |
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Image and Sound repository — A compendium of photographs, illustrations, charts, graphs, and audio/video “b-roll” that journalists can use to produce stories. The photos and video would come from partner organizations, freelance photographers, etc, and be available for download from the SNC or a partner website. |
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