Our Guests on Call program is a unique news analysis and in-depth commentary service with the flexibility to be able to respond quickly to a rapidly shifting news climate in order to take advantage of the media’s flickering attention to various issues. We concentrate on bringing new angles, broader approaches and solution-oriented analysis into regional and national debates on a wide range of economic, environmental, social and global security issues. The project focuses on current news events to bring the attention of radio producers and their listening publics to the larger questions surrounding these issues.

Guests on Call issues media alerts once every seven working days pegged to breaking headlines and current issues to radio markets nationwide. Our team of media coordinators then canvasses the radio landscape, booking interviews on public and commercial radio stations from coast to coast as well as national and international networks that feature programs with interview formats.

Hosts of locally produced news and public affairs programming find that our services are an invaluable aid in bringing new and diverse voices to the debate on national, international and even regional issues. Guests we put on the air lend insight and unconventional analysis to the day’s news and also convey new perspectives on issues not often covered by the mainstream media. We seek guest speakers who are pragmatic and solution-oriented, offering listeners tangible ways to increase their participation in civic activities, reduce personal impacts on the natural environment and make their voices heard in the boardrooms and corridors of power. Our program is backed by our database of some 2,000 leading policy analysts, big picture thinkers and pragmatic social innovators.

The project has proven especially useful to foundations, nonprofit organizations, and citizen coalitions interested in raising the level of public awareness of their initiatives, since many of these groups do not themselves possess the resources to mount such systematic media outreach. Guests on Call represents a cost-effective means of informing a broader public about the vitally important but little-known work of many nongovernmental organizations and individuals. Our radio-based strategic media outreach complements media efforts by organizations that focus solely on print and television.