# Community Newswire publishes its 5,000th news release

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/02/05/community-newswire-publishes-its-5000th-news-release/
- Published: 2005-02-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Following its launch in June 2004, Community Newswire, the free service run by the
Media Trust and The Press Association to help community and voluntary groups gain
coverage in the media, has published its 5,000th news release.
Community Newswire
originally aimed to publish twenty stories a day, selected from those submitted 
by voluntary organisations, but have actually achieved a daily average of 32, according
to VolResource.

Professional journalists edit submitted pieces for publication on the Community 
Newswire service. VolResource further report that a remarkable 94% of submitted 
press releases have been published.

This should be another key outlet for those promoting their fundraising campaigns,
although VolResource believes that “there is great scope for [voluntary organisations]
to submit more interesting material.” So far only around 1,300 groups have used 
the free service.

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