| Description | Minutes and papers of the British Psychological Society BPS Press Committee includes correspondence.
2 April 1997 BPS Press Committee Minutes and Papers includes Strategic Plan, practicalities of running the press office; correspondence with National Press concerning their coverage of psychology and psychologists; conference data sheet [of conference speaker who have a press release]; responses to questionnaire on effects of press coverage [contains personal data]; record of press calls; papers for possible release at Annual Conference, Media Watch [column] rota;
26 June 1997 BPS Press Committee Minutes and Papers includes membership of the Committee, draft strategic plan for the Committee and Chair; feedback from coverage at Annual Conference; debate as to whether media fact sheets are useful or truncate complex issues; press office facilities during Conference; setting of embargoes; setting up a TV and radio production company; copy press release 'Statutory Control of Psychologists'; article on psychologists working with Social Services [in Psychologists and Social Services newsletter]; information for subsystems press officers; correspondence with National Press concerning their coverage of psychology and psychologists; complaints to the BBC about a segment on 'On In The Mind' on false memory syndrome; changes to conference media release contact sheet; Media Watch [column] schedule;
15 September 1997 BPS Press Committee Minutes and Papers includes evaluation questionnaire send to paper authors after the Annual Conference; embargoes questionnaire sent to press; promotion of journals; press releases on removal of Keith Reed-Jones from register and 'Dieters Thoughts Reduce Mental Power', 'Recognition of Falklands War Veterans Problems' and the Cognitive Psychology award; list of London Conference papers for choosing press releases; ideas for BPS Centenary [2001] activity; process for preparing press releases for symposia;
15 December 1997 BPS Press Committee Minutes and Papers includes Media Watch [column] schedule, annual report, ideas for Centenary media activity; correspondence with National Press concerning their coverage of psychology and psychologists; running order for radio comment on death of Diana, Princess of Wales; setting of embargoes;
See also:
BPS/001/6/01/01 Standing Conference Committee
BPS/001/6/01/02/03 Annual Conference Press
BPS/001/6/01/03/03 London Conference Press |
| AdminHistory | Press Committee started 1971 as a Standing Committee of Council. Restructured in 1984 and in 1997 Chairman Carol Sellars. Maryon Tysoe had to stand down as Chair when she became editor of the Psychologist. Pam Briggs Chairman from 1998 |
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