cc: "Raymond S. Bradley" <rbradley@geo.umass.edu>, "Keith Briffa" <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, "Julie Cole" <jcole@geo.arizona.edu>, "Malcolm K. Hughes" <mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu>, "Isabelle Larocque" <isabelle.larocque@pages.unibe.ch>, "Tom Pedersen" <pedersen@eos.ubc.ca>, "Lonnie G. Thompson" <thompson.3@osu.edu>, "Sandy Tudhope" <sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk>
date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:58:10 +0200
from: "Susannah Eliott" <Susannah@igbp.kva.se>
subject: Re: news article for Science
to: "Keith Alverson" <keith.alverson@pages.unibe.ch>

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 <keith.alverson@pages.unibe.ch>
To: Susannah Elliot <susannah@igbp.kva.se>
Cc: Raymond S. Bradley <rbradley@geo.umass.edu>; Keith Briffa
<k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>; Julie Cole <jcole@geo.arizona.edu>; Malcolm K. Hughes
<mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu>; Isabelle Larocque
<isabelle.larocque@pages.unibe.ch>; Tom Pedersen <pedersen@eos.ubc.ca>;
Lonnie G. Thompson <thompson.3@osu.edu>; Sandy Tudhope
<sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk>
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


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> From: Koenig <100545.1023@compuserve.com>
> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:42:59 -0400
> To: Keith Alverson <keith.alverson@pages.unibe.ch>
> 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
>
>


