announcement news release

Announcement News Release

Practitioners will often use the news release to announce a new product, service, location, etc.

For this assignment, you will assume that your “client” has something important coming up that you would like to announce to the public.

  1. Choose your audience
  2. Choose your headline (angle)
  3. Write the lead
  4. Include a relevant quote
  5. Include a boilerplate

The example at this link shows how the Widener communications staff prepared a similar release for an announcement relative to the campus: https://www.widener.edu/news/news-archive