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Caravan for Kids successfully utilized the free press to get PTA's message out statewide to California voters and Sacramento policymakers statewide.
Up and down California, ABC, NBC, Fox affiliates and independent TV stations covered Caravan for Kids. Every major daily newspaper in the state covered Caravan for Kids at least once including:
The Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union Tribune, North County Times, Orange County Register, LA Daily News, Santa Barbara News Press, Fresno Bee, Sacramento Bee, Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Bernardino Sun, San Jose Mercury News, Riverside Press Enterprise plus hundreds of local papers.
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Press Reports for April 27 & 28 Caravan for Kids
(Links go directly to Caravan or PTA articles)
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Here are the early reports from our local event organizers as divided by news market. The Local PTA leadership did a fantastic job.
- Bay Area: San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley
-All radio stations covered: KQED (NPR), KCBS, KGO and local independent station KPFA
-Every TV network, plus Fox and Univision covered, including: KGO/ABC, covered both Berkeley and interviewed San Jose; KNBC/11, KPIX/CBS, KNTV/NBC; KTVU/Fox went live on from Sally Peyson Hayes' living room this morning, for Morning's on 2, the most widely watched local morning broadcast in the nation; they covered both the San Jose and SF events and are going live tonight from a Berkeley PTA Mom Hillary Kitka's house.
- Every A and B paper in the Bay Area is covering, including: two stories in the Chronicle, one political timed with an education poll commissioned by the Chronicle to coincide with C4K; and a Metro story about C4K, based on interviews with Carol Kocivar and Cynthia Papermaster; The Examiner/Independent, The San Jose Mercury News, The Oakland Tribune, (Tribune Article 2), the Berkeley Daily Planet, (Daily Planet Article 2 - scroll down); and the Montclarian. Also, Miramonte Parents Club News
- San Diego
- Three or four television networks covered; KFMBTV
- Three major papers covered, including San Diego Union Tribune and the North County Times
- Los Angeles
- Four TV crews covered the downtown LA event; KNTV then covered the Glendale event
- Daily News and News Press covered
- LA Times - George Skelton's column
- KNR - all news radio ran report this am
- Whittier News
- Pasadena
Pasadena Star News
- Santa Monica/Malibu
- Santa Monica Mirror, Mirror Article 2, Mirror Article 3
- Santa Monica Daily Press, Daily Press Article 2
- Surf Santa Monica
- The Malibu Times
- Chico
- Three local TV networks covered
- all local newspapers covered with cameras
- Palm Springs
- The Desert Sun
- Santa Barbara (in the rain 50 people showed up!)
- Three local TV networks covered
- Santa Barbara News Press covered with camera
- Santa Cruz
- Interviewed by all the local newspapers
- Santa Cruz Sentinel
- San Bernadino
- Print reporter covered
- Sacramento
- News 10 KXTV
- Sacramento Bee
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