# Local Media & Messaging Training

Online interactive training to learn how to contact the local press, create a media list and write a press release. A step by step tutorial is available [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmmSTzhQcP4&list=PLaqtHuuezHSfzwRCET9JvRIGMtJsuGkpx). 

You can also access the slides used in the training [here](
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZXD9IeSx74fhwwt83htNX9gjxZpk4dbHrvnU37R3tP8/edit#slide=id.p).

**By the end of this training, you will have:**
- a clear “message”
- the basics of a press release
- a local media list
- a timing strategy

**You will know:**
- how to prepare quotes
- how to brief Rebels who will be a contact for the press
- to prepare immediate post-action images to send to the press
- how to brief non M&M rebels to support the work you have done!