A Sources listing complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself.
Reporters and broadcasters need knowledgeable sources to interview and quote when they write stories or line up guests. The Sources directory is the first place most journalists turn to when they need to find experts and spokespersons. Sources gives them what they most need in their day-to-day work: a wealth of human contacts - people like you - offering a wide range of views and expertise, ready and willing to speak to the media.

When you are in Sources, your media profile, including your expertise and your contact information, is there working for you whenever journalists turn to Sources, as they do thousands of times every week. One thousand reporters a day use the Sources Web site www.sources.com to find the spokespeople they need. Every time they do, each of them looks at an average of five or six listings to find the most appropriate contacts to call. In addition, more than 10,000 copies of the print edition of Sources are in use on journalists' desks at this very moment. Each time they use Sources, in print or online, your media profile is right there, telling them about you.

Journalists give us very positive feedback about Sources. They like the fact that Sources is targeted to their needs, the fact that everyone listed in Sources is by definition willing to take calls from the news media, with their phone numbers and other contact information right there. The intelligently cross-indexed subject index helps them focus their stories and leads them to the best sources.

By contrast, we've heard, doing a search on Google or another search engine is "like trying to take a drink from a fire hose". A search on almost any topic returns millions of hits, but rarely the contact information a reporter needs. Journalists, whether they are working in broadcast or in print, need someone to talk to. They need someone to interview, someone who can provide quotes or sound bites. A Web site cannot provide that: only a human being can. And that is why Sources, the directory of human contacts, is an irreplaceable tool for journalists.

We'd love to be able to include you in Sources. Click here for more information, or use the online Quick Listing Form here.