College of Fine Arts News submission form guidelines and tips

to submit your News go to the News Submission Form

How can I increase the possibility of coverage?
Who should use this form?
What type of information is appropriate for submission?
How will this information be used?

How can I increase the possibility of coverage?

The following tips will help us maximize coverage for your event:

Give us plenty of lead-time. News, calendar entries, and story placement can take anywhere from several weeks to several months depending on the type of publication.
Provide us with background information. Tell us about your work, send us a short bio of artists or performers, tell us about the authors or composers, send a complete program, tell us about the topic or theme.
Provide visual materials (i.e. photos, video clips, images of book covers) or tell us about photo opportunities in advance of the event.

Submit digital copies (on CD) of your materials to:

College of Fine Arts News Submissions
C/O: Fine Arts Public Affairs
Office of the Dean D1400
Doty Fine Arts Building 2.4
(Right at the Northeast corner of 23rd Street and Trinity Street)

Suggest an angle. Can you link your news item to current local, national or international news? Could your news item be linked to other occurences on campus?
Let us know who your primary audiences are. Which groups would likely be interested in your news item? Could your event be of interest to a non-traditional audience or special interest group (i.e. a Canadian performer may be of interest to Canadians living in Austin)?

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Who should use this form?

Alumni, faculty, friends, staff, and students of the College of Fine Arts.

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What type of information is appropriate for submission?

Noteworthy news items. These can be official or non-official, involving alumni, faculty, staff, or students of the College of Fine Arts. Student organizations are welcome to submit as well.

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How will this information be used?

The College of Fine Arts Public Affairs team will use your information for news releases only. We may post your news item on univeristy, College of Fine Arts, or departmental news pages. We may also submit the information to local media and community organizations, but please note that we cannot be responsible for publication of your news in media we do not control.

If your news item represents an attractive and newsworthy opportunity, we will also prepare a press release and send out to external media when appropriate. In other cases we may publicize through the fine arts or UT web sites. We will do our best to provide coverage for your news item. Please be aware, however, that media space (even internally) is very competitive.

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to submit your news proposal go to the News Submission Form