Preparing employees for a reporter visit

If you are doing an interview with a reporter and he is coming to your business you will want to give your employees the heads-up that a reporter will be there in the building.

You need to let people know, throughout the company, that there will be a reporter on site, and remind them that anything-either through staff meetings or even by email-that's said in the presence of a reporter is on the record. Just give them a heads-up that "between 11 and 1 o'clock so-and-so from The Times will be in the building and please be conscious of that."

So that you don't have a reporter that you're taking on a tour, and as you're taking them down the hall, they overhear a conversation about some confidential information about one of your clients that's coming from somebody's office.

You can find out a lot more helpful information about working with reporters in How to Keep the Media Wolves at Bay.

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