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Guidelines for MI NewsWire content
Method called Category to Category association used for
press release content
Use the Press Release template
Press Release category must be used for the primary
category for agency site
Use default font, Arial, 10 point
Content is left justified, single spaced with no paragraph
indentation. Use one line between paragraphs
Do not use subhead in the body
First item in body should ALWAYS be the date, in bold
No need to use FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No need for any type of end demarcation (### or -30-)
Attachments should be converted to PDFs and included
as associated assets
Do not use a dateline, unless it is somewhere other than
Lansing
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How does MI NewsWire work?
How to get a press release piece of content to
appear on the MI NewsWire web site.
First, you need to have a Press Release category
with a cat-to-cat association to the Mi NewsWire
site.
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A cat-to-cat association is when a category is
associated to a another category like in Figure 1.
Figure 1 (Associated categories to the DNR-FORMS_PUBS_MAPS-PRESS_RELEASES.)
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Press Release Content
Your Press Release piece of content must be
added to the Press Release category as its
Primary Category.
Figure 2 (Associated Categories of an existing piece of content.)
Figurre 1
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Problems You May Encounter
If you create a press release and add it to a category
that does not have a cat-to-cat association to MI
NewsWire, the content will not show on MI
NewsWire site.
If you associate a piece of content to a Press
Release category that is associated to MI NewsWire
after it has already been added to the system, it will
not appear on MI NewWire site.
Site Administrators can contact their assigned CMA
Expert to have content manually added to the MI
NewsWire site.
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Questions
http://www.michigan.gov/minewswire/
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