{"id":200,"date":"2009-11-26T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T20:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2009\/11\/26\/how_to_get_publicity\/"},"modified":"2009-11-26T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T20:01:55","slug":"how-to-get-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2009\/11\/26\/how-to-get-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you wondering (and several have asked) how I managed to get a third of a page in the main section of last Sunday&#8217;s Sunday Star Times, the answer is simple.&nbsp; Tell the press about whatever story you want them to know about.&nbsp; Some journalists can be pretty good at digging up stories, but it helps them no end if you give them one, rather than hoping that they find it.&nbsp; So, whatever you want to publicise, go and tell the media about it.<\/p>\n<p>(The article, thankfully minus the photos, is available on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/science\/3085607\/Update-on-the-undead-from-sciences-bat-cave\">stuff.co.nz, click here<\/a>.) The cafe scientifique in question went really well &#8211; Alison Campbell and I did a session on some of those bizarre science stories that crop up from time to time. We didn&#8217;t get onto <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sci.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2009\/08\/zombie-attack.shtml\">the zombies<\/a>, but, in case you didn&#8217;t know, or need a reminder, that was one of the more &#8216;interesting&#8217; bits of scientific research published this year &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sci.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2009\/08\/zombie-attack.shtml\">click on the link<\/a>. And as for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sci.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/10\/another-contender-for-best-blo.shtml\">fruit bats<\/a>, Alison handled it very well indeed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you wondering (and several have asked) how I managed to get a third of a page in the main section of last Sunday&#8217;s Sunday Star Times, the answer is simple.&nbsp; Tell the press about whatever story you want them to know about.&nbsp; Some journalists can be pretty good at digging up stories, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to get publicity : Physics Stop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2009\/11\/26\/how-to-get-publicity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to get publicity : Physics Stop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For those of you wondering (and several have asked) how I managed to get a third of a page in the main section of last Sunday&#8217;s Sunday Star Times, the answer is simple.&nbsp; 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