Post #784580 by Prikli Pear on Fri, Mar 2, 2018 11:42 AM

Yep, editors do this all the time! I've had interviews with print media journalists in which I was name-dropping sponsors for certain events, and the editor cropped out some (but not all) of them to save space, and it required some explanation to those sponsors who didn't appear in the article. Very frustrating!

As a recovering journalist who's spent the past 15 years in media relations, I can say that media is in no way interested in running a list of sponsors. The thinking is that if those sponsors want advertising in the newspaper/radio/television broadcast, they can pay for it. Unless the event has the sponsor's name in it (think all the college bowl games) then you're pretty much SOL. I tell our people who come to me with programs and events, wanting their golden prose reprinted on the front page of the Austin American-Statesman unaltered, along with the bad grip-and-grin photo they're provided at a resolution too low for print use. I tell them all we can do is provide the media with the information. Unless someone comes up with a budget to buy advertising space, we have no say on how, or even if they use said information. That's the truth.