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Strategies for Successful Interactions with the News Media

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For psychologists and behavioral researchers, media reporting of news and current events offers a credible, far-reaching, and inexpensive way to educate large numbers of Americans about psychological findings and knowledge. For the news media, psychologists are interview sources who can help answer the “why” of news events and social trends and can add interest, credibility and a fresh or unique angle to the news. So why is the relationship such a tenuous one?

This chapter was initially published as Farberman, R. K. (1999). What the media need from news sources. In L. L. Schwartz (Ed.), Psychology and the media: A second look(pp. 8–22). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Reprinted with permission of the American Psychological Association.

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  1. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 20002, USA

    Rhea K. Farberman APR

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    Mitchell J. Prinstein

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Farberman, R.K. (2013). Strategies for Successful Interactions with the News Media. In: Prinstein, M. (eds) The Portable Mentor. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3994-3_22

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