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Media Relations

Earned coverage that carries your framing, not your opponent’s.

Press strategy, journalist relationships, press conference management and spokesperson operations across national and regional media.

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Short answer

What is Media Relations?

Press strategy, journalist relationships, press conference management and spokesperson operations across national and regional media.

The Challenge

What usually goes wrong

Campaigns treat media as a broadcast channel and are surprised when coverage is hostile. Regional media in particular runs on relationships and access built over months, not on a press release sent the night before.

Our Approach

How we run it

  1. 01

    Media landscape mapping

    Outlets, bureau structures, reporters and editorial leanings mapped for the constituency and state.

  2. 02

    Relationship building

    Consistent, reliable access for journalists — the practical basis of fair coverage.

  3. 03

    Story pipeline

    A calendar of proactive stories so the campaign supplies news rather than only reacting to it.

  4. 04

    Spokesperson operations

    Trained spokespersons with briefing packs, agreed lines and clear escalation to the candidate.

  5. 05

    Coverage monitoring

    Daily monitoring of tone and share of voice across print, television and digital, with correction requests where reporting is factually wrong.

Deliverables

  • Media landscape map and contact database
  • Press strategy and story calendar
  • Press release and briefing production
  • Press conference management
  • Spokesperson briefing packs
  • Daily coverage and sentiment report

Tools & Data Sources

  • Media monitoring stack
  • Journalist relationship database
  • Sentiment analysis

Engagement Timeline

What happens, and when

  1. Week 1–2

    Landscape mapping

  2. Ongoing

    Relationship programme

  3. Weekly

    Story pipeline

  4. T-45 to T-2

    Peak media phase

    Handover and review

In Practice

Where this was deployed

Issue Based CampaignAnonymised

Farmers' Rights Movement Campaign

Turned diffuse anger into one addressable demand aimed at the authority that could grant it.

12+
Districts Covered
2.3M+
People Reached
85%
Positive Sentiment

Farmers' Rights Movement Campaign

Energy without structure. Multiple groups made overlapping and occasionally contradictory demands, which allowed the policy target to respond to none of them.

Read the full case study

FAQ

Questions we are asked

No. Paid advertising is disclosed as advertising. We do not pay for editorial coverage, and our Code of Ethics prohibits it.

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