cc: "Raymond S. Bradley" , "Keith Briffa" , "Julie Cole" , "Malcolm K. Hughes" , "Isabelle Larocque" , "Tom Pedersen" , "Lonnie G. Thompson" , "Sandy Tudhope" date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:58:10 +0200 from: "Susannah Eliott" subject: Re: news article for Science to: "Keith Alverson" Hi Keith, The timing is indeed unfortunate. You cannot hold a media briefing on the Thursday of the conference and expect media coverage for a news item that was released almost a week earlier. If there is media interest, it will have been and gone by then. What to do? Can we at least discuss this with the Science editors? Obviously you don't want to push them if their mind is made up, but I reckon they would understand our dilemma. The alternative is to let the story run the week before and link it to the conference ("a group of paleoscientists meeting in Amsterdam next week..." etc). This would serve to get the message out and give us some pre-conference publicity. In this case, there is no point in holding any kind of media briefing during the conference, though of course you could be prepared to answer journalists questions if they come up. Instead it would be best simply to send out a media release to coincide with the Science publication date (i.e.a few days earlier - say Monday the 2 July). Can you send me the final version of the letter for Science? As soon as I have time, I will draft a press release for you to look at. Cheers, Susannah ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Alverson To: Susannah Elliot Cc: Raymond S. Bradley ; Keith Briffa ; Julie Cole ; Malcolm K. Hughes ; Isabelle Larocque ; Tom Pedersen ; Lonnie G. Thompson ; Sandy Tudhope Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:52 AM Subject: FW: news article for Science Hi Susannah, Just to update you on the GPOS communication strategy (to the extent one exists). The letter to Science has been accepted and slotted for the July 6 issue, subject to as yet unknown editorial pruning. It is basically a (very) short version of the article I sent you for the IGBP newsletter. In the same issue of Science, there will probably be a news story by Bob Koenig. The timing is perhaps not ideal, a week later would be nice, but I doubt I can change this. Also, I have submitted a longer version of this article to EOS, which I hope will be accepted and appear shortly before or during the congress. I am trusting you to arrange some kind of media event after Ray and Tom's plenary talks. I hope that all of the authors of the letter to science will be able to be present. So if you have any information about this please inform all of them. Keith Alverson alverson@pages.unibe.ch Ray Bradley rbradley@geo.umass.edu Keith Briffa k.briffa@uea.ac.uk Julia Cole jcole@geo.arizona.edu Malcolm Hughes mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu Isabelle Larocque isabelle.larocque@pages.unibe.ch Tom Pedersen pedersen@eos.ubc.ca Lonnie Thompson thompson.3@osu.edu Sandy Tudhope sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk Thanks for your help. Keith -- Keith Alverson Executive Director PAGES International Project Office Bärenplatz 2, 3011 Bern Switzerland http://www.pages-igbp.org Tel: +41 31 312 31 33 Mobile: (+41) 079 641 9220 Fax: +41 31 312 31 68 ---------- > From: Koenig <100545.1023@compuserve.com> > Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:42:59 -0400 > To: Keith Alverson > Subject: news article for Science > > Hi Keith, > I think that I will be writing a news article about the initiative to > appear (hopefully) in the same issue > that will include the group's letter. I will be working on the news > article next week (June 11 ff.), and > I would appreciate your advice as to: > -- which details or explanations that are not mentioned in the letter > should be discussed in the news > article (and which scientist would be best to discuss that particular issue > or detail). > -- a better definition or explanation for how the Global Paleoclimate > Observing System would > be organized, and exactly what it would do. (Again, which scientist who > signed the letter would > be best for me to quote on this issue?) > I will be out of town this Thursday and Friday, but back over the > weekend. Will you be at > PAGES early next week? > > Regards, > Bob Koenig > Contributing Correspondent, SCIENCE > > Tel. 352-3808 > >