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Media Training

With over a decade of experience in Washington, D.C., Positive Communications will help you tell your story in news media interviews. Media training will enable you to:

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Chris Jahnke works with a client practicing videotape skills
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Communicate a compelling story

Control an interview and get your key message points across
Deflect negative questions

Use sound bites strategically

Conquer the camera with body language, eye contact and vocal control

Whatever the format – press conferences, media tours, print interviews, radio call-in shows, television talk shows, live satellite telecasts or telephone interviews – we have the experience, the tools and the techniques that can make it a positive experience. Our clients have appeared in major news outlets, and got their story across.

How We Work  See how we’ve helped organizations and individuals with our media training.

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American Lung Association

The .Com Group

Child Care Action Campaign

Economic Policy Institute

Florida Marlins Baseball Club

Georgetown University

Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.

Merck & Co., Inc.

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.

Safeguard Global Services

Violence Policy Center

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

washingtonpost.com

World Wildlife Fund

“Your media training helped our senior editors get ready for the challenge of the live television interview. Thanks for your help in preparing them to communicate our on-line story to our web site visitors.”
–Director of Communications
washingtonpost.com

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