Every night, our team of associate editors visit more than 2,300 websites which are maintained by the federal government, the Supreme Court and the 12 appeals courts, the U.S. Congress, and an expansive array of public policy organizations. We collect links for newly posted press releases, statements, reports, court decisions, and other items which relate to newsworthy public policy issues, assemble them onto a single webpage, and distribute our daily webpage to our users.

The keyword is newsworthy. Our editors are veteran journalists with keenly developed news-gathering skills and a deep commitment to objectivity. The items that appear in our daily reports are newsworthy and have relevance to public policy issues, and they are selected without regard to their subject matter or viewpoint.

Every morning, our subscribers (many of whom are editors and reporters who work in print and broadcast newsrooms throughout the country) can accomplish in a matter of minutes what their competitors cannot achieve in a whole day. Our daily reports provide single-click access to the latest statements and pronouncements from the government and organizations that play a pivotal role in the development, implementation, interpretation and enforcement of public policy.

Public Policy Matters is more than a news tipsheet. It can help provide an extra dimension to news articles by introducing journalists to the statements and viewpoints of organizations and government agencies that are not on their customary checklist. And it regularly introduces journalists to issues that haven't yet appeared on their radar screen, enabling them to write articles about issues that haven't presented themselves to their competitors.

Public Policy Matters is not a press release distribution agency. While it is true that we do distribute press releases, we are not a distribution agency that exists for press release issuers. We decide what appears in our daily reports based on our proactive review of thousands of websites, and we do not accept compensation in any form to include or exclude any item.

Public Policy Matters has restored serendipity to the computer-aided news-gathering process. Today's news reporters routinely collect information for news stories by typing a few keywords into an Internet search engine which returns thousands of hits in a few nanoseconds. But all hits are restricted to the keywords which defined the search. Because Public Policy Matters searches the Internet without any keyword restrictions, our nightly harvest of news and information has no boundaries.

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Sincerely,

Ed Zuckerman
      Editor

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