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On today's show we talk with Marcia McNair on 3 tips to securing top media coverage. Marcia L. McNair is currently an Associate Professor of English, Journalism, and Women and Gender Studies at Nassau Community College and formerly an assistant editor at Essence Magazine. McNair has numerous publishing credits as a journalist, poet, and essayist. Her essay, The Incident Revisited, excerpted in the play she co-authored, Sistas On Fire! A Newsical, appears in the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered (2LeafPress, 2017). Her poem Long Island Just Isn’t Long Enough is published in Songs of Seasoned Women (QuadraSoul, 2008) and was performed by Composer Leonard Lehrman at the opening of Hofstra University’s Suburban Conference on Diversity in 2009. An excerpt from her first novel, E-Males (Aya Press, 2007), was performed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 2009. Her essay, A Tale of Two Mothers, appears in the anthology Mothers R Special/Celebrating Momma N’em (Memory Lane Publishers, 2017). A mother of two, McNair grew up in New Jersey, lived in both Harlem and Queens, but has resided on Long Island for over twenty years.