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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Sunday, October 12

Perfect PR

by DavidAkin on Sun 12 Oct 2003 09:34 PM EDT

Just ran across an ad for the following book while catching up on my reading:
Feeding the Media Beast: An Easy Recipe for Great Publicity
By Mark Mathis
Explains how to deal with journalists in a systematic way from the newsperson's point of view and establishes only 12 rules that ... more »

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