NEWS RELEASE
Note to Fellows: This is a SAMPLE news release that is being provided to help you write your own release for your hometown newspaper. SEE PAGE TWO FOR GUIDELINES.
NEWS RELEASE
THE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION
The Engineering Honor Society
TENNESSEE ALPHA CHAPTER
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heather Sanchez, Publicity Chair
865/546-4578
Miles Awarded Tau Beta Pi Fellowship
Eleanor B. Miles, 134 Main Street, Clinton, TN, has been awarded for the 2011-12 year, a graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. Miles, the daughter of Mary and James Miles, Clinton, will receive a cash stipend of $10,000 to pursue graduate work in structural engineering at RPI. She plans to enroll in a one-year program culminating in a thesis project, learning more advanced methods of analysis and design. Tau Beta Pi Fellowships are awarded on the basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession.
An honors student majoring in civil engineering at the University of Tennessee, Miles is president of the Tennessee Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, a member of Pi Tau Sigma honor society, and a member of the Society of Women Engineers. Miles has been a varsity member of UT Knoxville’s swim team. She is a 2007 graduate of West High School.
Tau Beta Pi is the world’s largest engineering society and provides more financial assistance to engineering students than any other engineering society in the world. Membership represents the highest honor to be obtained by an engineering student and is awarded on the basis of high scholarship and exemplary character.
Prepare a news release using the following guidelines:
1) Use high-quality paper.
2) Type NEWS RELEASE in bold caps at the top in a font size larger than the text.
3) Include Tau Beta Pi Association, The Engineering Honor Society, the name of your chapter, and address.
4) Your release should always have a header that includes “For Immediate Release” or release on a specific date, as well as a contact name (president or publicity chair), phone number, and email address if appropriate.
5) If your story is exclusively for one paper, state that fact near your release date information, i.e. “Exclusive for the Daily Collegian.” If you are submitting the same story to competing publications, prepare a special version for each, and send an original to each.
6) Include a concise headline in bold; not all in caps and no longer than two lines (78 characters). Avoid using first names in the headline.
7) Use double-spacing in the body and wide margins.
8) Keep it brief and begin with a two-sentence summary which clearly states the news and explains why it is important.
9) Give a brief description of Tau Beta Pi as follows: (Tau Beta Pi is the world’s largest engineering society and provides more financial assistance to engineering students than any other engineering society in the world. Membership represents the highest honor to be obtained by an engineering student and is awarded on the basis of high scholarship and exemplary character.)
Your university or school of engineering’s public relations office may be able to assist you in preparing news releases to your members’ and electees’ hometown newspapers and national fraternity and sorority magazines.
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