readMedia Hometown Newsmaker
www.readmedia.com
Under AIKCU’s business partnership with readMedia AIKCU members receive a 10% discount to Hometown Newsmaker, “the silver bullet for hometown news.”

Hometown Newsmaker provides:

• Unlimited distribution of “hometowners” to the local hometown newspaper of any student in the subscriber’s organization nationwide.
• Unlimited creation, storage and use of customized templates by the subscriber.
• E-mail and phone support from readMedia staff during posted editorial hours.
• Transmission reports for each hometown news distribution detailing the newspapers that received each hometowner, searchable by the name of the student or the name of the newspaper.
• E-mail “cc” feature for each hometowner, allowing the subscriber to send a copy of the hometown news release to each students’ or parents’ e-mail address.
• Customizable headlines
• Link to online posting of a custom version of each hometowner that allows posting of the hometowner to Facebook and other social media.
• Inclusion of all hometowners in the readMediaportal, a tool for media to discover, read and publish hometowners in their local area.
• Branding of the subscriber’s releases with masthead and logo for fax and web posting.
• The ability to include photos, documents, audio files, and other supporting documentation with releases via storage on readMedia’s PRServer network.

The AIKCU contact for readMedia’s Hometown Newsmaker is:

Kristen Williams
518.429.2784 office
518.429.2801 fax