Services/03 · Amplification

Become the researcher journalists already have on file.

Press coverage is not a lottery. Journalists and policy correspondents keep a short list of researchers who answer quickly, speak in plain language and can be quoted without a caveat for every sentence. We get you onto that list and keep you there.

Press and Recognition

Hi Professor,

What press and recognition has produced for academics and researchers like you:

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The problemI

Why good researchers never get quoted.

01

Journalists work in hours, not weeks. The academic who replies first gets the quote.

02

University press offices protect the institution, not your individual profile.

03

Most researchers speak in careful, qualified paragraphs. Media needs one clear sentence, and the qualification after it.

04

Nobody is pitching you, so you only appear when a story happens to reach your press office by chance.

05

Coverage that does happen is never reused, so it disappears instead of compounding into standing.

< 3 hrs

Typical window for a reactive comment before the story is filed without you.

3 to 5

Named journalists and correspondents covering your subject that actually matter. It is a small list.

10x

Reuse multiplier. One piece of coverage should feed your profile, grant narratives, talks and proposals for a year.

How we run itII

Press and Recognition, step by step.

01

Media positioning

The two or three story angles you are genuinely the best available voice for, written as a press-ready pitch with the quotes you are willing to give.

02

Source list building

We identify the specific journalists, producers and podcast bookers covering your subject and introduce you as a reliable, fast, quotable source.

03

Rapid response

We monitor your field. When a story breaks, you get a drafted comment within the hour, ready to approve and send while the window is open.

04

Proactive placement

Comment pieces, features and podcast bookings pitched deliberately, with your work at the centre rather than your institution's brand.

05

Awards and recognition

Award entries, fellowship nominations and speaker submissions written and submitted, because these are documents, not accidents.

06

Reputation protection

Search results managed, and a plan on file for the day something inaccurate is published about your research.

What you get

Deliverables, not adjectives.

Your time

Unpredictable in short bursts. Reactive comments need twenty minutes at short notice. Interviews and recordings are scheduled around your teaching and lab commitments.

Not for

Academics who want guaranteed coverage in named publications. Nobody can promise that honestly. We can promise the operation that makes it likely.

  • Media positioning document and press kit
  • Curated journalist, producer and podcast target list
  • Media training: how to be quotable without overstating your findings
  • Rapid-response drafted comments while stories are live
  • Comment pieces and feature pitches
  • Podcast and broadcast bookings
  • Press releases for genuine findings and announcements only
  • Award, fellowship and speaker submissions
  • Coverage archive, reused across profile, grant narratives and proposals
What happens, and whenIII

An honest sequence.

Month 1

Positioning, press kit, media training, target list built.

Month 2

First introductions and reactive comments placed.

Months 3 to 6

Recurring quotes, first podcasts, first feature or comment piece.

Months 6 to 12

You are on file. Journalists come to you, and coverage starts arriving unprompted.

A worked example

A group leader in infectious disease with no press history

Before

Well known inside two conference circuits and invisible to every health desk and podcast producer covering the pandemic beat.

After

Three defined angles, a press kit, media training, and steady placement across podcasts and trade press over eight months.

Result

Paid consulting, speaking invitations and a policy advisory seat, all traceable to coverage rather than outreach.

Frequently asked

The questions academics and researchers ask first.

No, and anyone who does is selling advertising rather than PR. What we guarantee is that the right journalists know who you are, that you are pitched consistently, and that you are ready when the window opens.

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