The Children’s Mercy Media Relations Department is a three-person department responsible for facilitating all contacts with the news media, as well as proactively seeking news coverage on a local, regional and national level.
The department is responsible for:
- Arranging interviews with physicians, nurses, patients, administrators, or other Children’s Mercy employees and the news media
- Preparing experts for interviews with the news media
- Story development and story pitching
- Message development
- Writing articles and developing other content for website and social channels
- Updating and enhancing the online newsroom
- Shooting, editing and producing video and podcasts for external and internal websites
- Writing press releases
- Managing social media channels