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Copy-Editing Message Releases and Newswire Copy
Chapter 7 Gathering and Disseminating Navy News

Journalist 3 & 2 - Introduction to Journalism and other reporting practices
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Figure 6-3.—Copy-edited message news release. A   message   news   release   is   designated   by   the may dictate the use of such releasing instructions as: acronvm   PRESREL,   which   is   a   standard   Navy HOLD  FOR  RELEASE  UNTIL  (date  and  time),  FOR communications  abbreviation  for  press  release.  In  the same line as PRESREL are the date and time (date-time group)  the  release  was  transmitted.  For  example: PRESREL 211802Z JUL93. In this case, the story was sent  on  the  21st  day  of  July,  1993,  at  1802.  The“Z” represents Greenwich Mean Time. The use of a different letter here would indicate local time in the area where the story originated. All  message  releases  are  for  immediate  release unless otherwise designated. Occasionally, circumstances SECURITY  REVIEW  AND   RELEASE   or   FOR SIMULTANEOUS  RELEASE.  (Here,  fill  in  the appropriate   data.) Because  message  news  releases  arrive  printed  in capital  letters,  you  use  a  different  system  for  copy editing. You must assume that all the capital letters are lowercase and begin your copy editing from there. In other words,any time you want to capitalize a letter you must   underscore   it   three   times.   An   example   of   a copy-edited message news release appears  in figure 6-3. 6-21







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