I present an alternative to the above example. This
example of a press release is a confabulation.
Contact:
Dr. Fake Name
123 Fake Road
Fake University
Phone: 123-321-1234
Fax: 123-321-4321
Email: fake@fake.com
October 21, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
BEGIN
Forest
Park Balloon Race Results Made Available Online
(Washington
University, St. Louis, MO) – Professor Jonathon Whitely from Washington University’s Statistics Department announced
today that the results from the annual Forest Park balloon race have been made
available online. Previously, the race results were only available on file in
the St. Louis courthouse. However, the courthouse and the balloon race officials
had been under pressure for some time to make the results widely available.
Balloon
race competitors and enthusiasts from around the world closely follow the
results of balloon races however have never been able to access the Forest Park
results. Barbara Hayward, a veteran balloon racer from Raleigh, North
Carolina,
expressed her frustration with the inaccessible race results.
“I have results from every major balloon race competition in North
America except St. Louis’ Forest Park balloon race. I was never able to
compare my results with theirs.
St.
Louis courthouse historian and archivist Jeremiah Radcliff decided that it was
time to release the results to the public on the Internet. He contacted Whitely
in Washington University’s Statistics Department and asked for his services.
“We figured it was a fine task for graduate level statisticians, since most of
the results had not been sorted or analyzed,” reasoned Radcliff. Whitely
accepted the task on behalf of his graduate students and formulated the project
in his upper level statistics methods course.
The
service is available at the web address: www.wustl.edu/~stat/balloon_results.htm.
Questions and comments should be forwarded to Professor Jonathon Whitely. More information is available at the website.
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