APA Media Referral Services Application

We are writing to invite you and other members of your division to join more than 1,700 of your colleagues in the APA's Media Referral Service (MRS).  The MRS is a database housed in APA's Public Communications Office, which serves as a resource for the national media in locating psychologists with expertise in a variety of topic areas.

We receive several calls a day from national and local print, broadcast and online journalists seeking on-the-record interviews or background from leading scientists, practitioners and educators. Requests run the gamut of psychological endeavor. The MRS database allows us to quickly find the right expert for the request, thus making the process a more efficient one for both the reporter and the interviewee.

We are hoping you and/or other members of the division will join the MRS to share your division's expertise with the news media. If you are not interested in joining, or if you are already a member of the MRS, we would appreciate you identifying other division members that you think would be a good match for this service. I have attached in Word a brief application form for enrollment in the MRS.

Please feel free to forward this form to your division's members as you see fit. The form should be returned to me as soon as possible at dpartenheimer@apa.org.

If you have any questions, please call us here at (202) 336-5700.

Sincerely,

David Partenheimer,  Pamela Willenz
Public Affairs Associate Manager
Office of Public Affairs Office of Public Affairs