**Welcome to the XR Boston Media Group**
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**Goal of Media and Messaging Group**
- Urging the press to cover the climate and ecological crises more urgently and with more frequency
- Raising awareness about the crises within local news outlets so that the public is properly informed
- Communicate solid arguments, based on large-scale scientific reports, in order to educate the public about the climate crisis
**What the Media and Messaging Group does**
- Manages Social Media Pages
- Creates Media Alerts and Press Releases for actions
- Establishes relationships with press and reporters who are covering the climate and ecological crises
- Ensures that messaging aligns with XR values
- Works out key framings and arguments through solid research
- Documents actions in Photos and Film
- Writes articles and statements
**Resources**
- [Interview tips](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJExZNlrUa7MbCII9RUelIVlyiMMdarGPGS7BVACYvA/edit)
- [Media Checklist for an Action](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GE0ukziNERTg3nVfbg3UUPpNrI9Vj8z7TUBa75vEBv4/edit)
**Current Projects**
- Establishing a relationship with the Boston Globe and calling on them to cover the ecological and climate crisis more urgently (see [Globe article](https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/17/group-calls-for-globe-take-leadership-its-coverage-climate-crisis/j6PXdElFDLqxhANhSFnfIJ/story.html) of our action at their headquarters)
- Distributing an analysis of the Boston Globe's lacking coverage on the science of global warming tipping points, climate feedback loops, runaway warming, sixth mass extinction, and hothouse earth; and their lack of coverage on major UN reports related to climate.
- Creating more awareness within local and national media outlets about the climate emergency and calling on them to inform the public
- Streamlining social media platforms
- Ensuring that all of the language in our external messaging aligns with XR values
- Preparing for our next action
- [Building capacity](./building-capacity/): follow best practices, develop skills, be organized
Take a look at the roles within the Media working group on our [mandate sheet](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hPIqji8juQueE1pFZdZAb-RhfZLq1rGpET2HXKFWXPs/edit?usp=sharing) and see if there is anything you would like to help with. Thank you!
If you have any questions, or would like to get involved, please contact [Jamie](mailto:XRBoston.media@gmail.com).