Communications & Public Affairs

About Media Relations

One role of media relations is the dissemination of timely communications to inform and educate the public about University of Waterloo issues, events and contributions.

Responsibilities include local, regional, national and international coverage of UW by way of information researched, written, and distributed in news releases, the holding of news conferences and responding to media inquiries.

Media Relations focuses its attention on effective media coverage to provide visibility for UW's faculties, institutes, groups and centres, faculty members and researchers. It shares campus expertise and knowledge in commenting on breaking news stories from around the world.

Media Relations provides a liaison role between UW's news sources and the external media, and offers media training courses for faculty and staff. It prepares and distributes a daily file of news clippings of articles about UW and universities, while monitoring and assessing media coverage of the campus.