Newsroom | Media Relations
MEDIA RELATIONS
The Jewish Community Relations Council serves as the media’s key link to the Detroit Jewish community, ensuring a Jewish perspective to events that occur or opinions expressed in the media.
 | Council president-elect Todd Mendel and
Detroit Free Press president/publisher
David Hunke at Council-sponsored
media leaders luncheon | | |
Giving voice to Detroit Jewry’s message to the media, Council:
• Serves as the primary resource for
local media on Israel, Judaism and
the Detroit Jewish community.
• Monitors the news and presses for
fair and accurate coverage and
supportive editorial positions.
• Hosts news conferences on key
issues and breaking news.
• Acts as the community’s
clearinghouse for media during any
crisis in Israel.
• Articulates our community’s solidarity with Israel to the media and to the community-at-large. • Proactively provides resources, story ideas and spokespersons on Israel, the Jewish community, and Jewish
 | Council associate director Allan Gale discusses the situation in Israel with
WXYZ-TV editorial director
Chuck Stokes | | |
interests including a broad range of domestic and public policy issues.
• Writes opinion pieces for key Detroit
newspapers and other media outlets.
• Meets routinely with top newspaper
editors, columnists and editorial
boards to discuss Middle East
coverage and Jewish priorities,
and to stimulate stories on Jewish
events and programs.
• Sponsors briefings for media
professionals with visiting Israeli
dignitaries, journalists and scholars
in order to provide a unique look into
Israel’s reality and perspective.
• Produces news releases on key
community stories, events and issues.
• Provides local media outlets with
press kits on the Jewish holidays.
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