Any mention discovered through Merit AI can be turned into a Newsroom press release.
To get started, click on a Merit AI discovery to view more information about the story. This will display a summary of the story and a list of matching Merit students:
Click the Press Release button at the bottom of this page:
Please note that if the mention came from an external website or your organization does not have an active Newsroom subscription, you will not see the Press Release button.
This will take you into Newsroom's press release workflow. The text and images from the online discovery will be automatically added for you. The article's headline and opening paragraph will become your press release headline and the body of your story, respectively:
Note: The pre-filled text that appears here often includes source code and page elements from the original article. Review your text throughout the achievement workflow carefully. Remove any datelines, extra spacing between paragraphs, special characters, or text specific to the webpage.
The images that accompanied your online discovery will appear here automatically, but you can add more images or remove them if necessary:
After selecting your distribution, contacts and landing page, click the Preview Your Release button. This will display your release and a list of your chosen recipients. On the right side of this screen, you will see a list of students who are part of this story. The students identified by Merit AI will appear here automatically, but you can add more students if necessary:
Note: Merit AI does not account for students' nicknames. For example, if the student was identified as Dave in your Merit AI discovery, but their Merit account uses David, Merit will not automatically add the student. In this scenario, you would want to manually add the person to your press release.
Simply finish the remaining steps in Merit's Newsroom workflow to turn your Merit AI discovery into a press release.
Learn more about what a published Newsroom press release looks like.