PR Newswire's Feature Seminars in the Midwest

		PR NEWSWIRE FEATURE NEWS MENDOLA FERGUSON Fred Ferguson, manager of PR Newswire's Feature News Service, and colleague Angela Mendola take their act throughout the United States, encouraging companies and organizations to use features to expand publicity results. (PRNewsFoto) [HD] NEW YORK, NY USA

NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire's feature news workshops will be touring the Midwest in May, coaching communications professionals and businesses to use newsfeatures to expand publicity results. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990422/HSTHFNS2 ) All workshops begin at 8 a.m. with registration and continental breakfast followed by training at 8:30 a.m. and a question and answer period from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. The events are held at no cost to all communications professionals. PRN's Feature News Service issues stories daily and through a series of packages that target a particular section editor or specialist who cover areas such as education, family issues, health, sports and entertainment. Features are useful to editors because most are timeless or semi-timeless and can be used verbatim. Fred Ferguson, manager of the service, and colleague Angela Mendola travel throughout the country giving advice on how to craft a wire service style newsfeature. The tour begins in Chicago on Tuesday, May 18th at Spiaggia, which is located at One Magnificent Mile, 980 N. Michigan Ave. Please RSVP to Marty Hansen, 888-776-6551, Marty_Hansen@prnewswire.com. On Wednesday, May 19th, the workshop will be held in St. Louis at the St. Louis Art Museum's Museum Cafe, 1 Fine Arts Drive. Please RSVP to Steven Werner, 800-346-3329, Steven_Werner@prnewswire.com. Minneapolis' Hey City Theater at 824 Hennepin Ave. is the location for the workshop on Thursday, May 20th. Please RSVP to Steve Carroll, 800-582-5154, Steve_Carroll@prnewswire.com. PR Newswire is the world leader in the electronic distribution of news releases to the media and financial community, having founded the industry 45 years ago. With 29 U.S. bureaus, five overseas bureaus, an exclusive partnership with Canada NewsWire and its vast network of wire, fax, e-mail and Internet delivery, PRN serves the news release needs of public relations and investor relations professionals worldwide.