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Chris Rickert: News massaging going strong; news reporting works to keep up

At UW-Madison, there are 21 full-time staff in the University Communications office, according to news and media relations director John Lucas, although they perform duties in addition to media relations, such as ?creating news stories about campus for internal and external audiences. ?I think there are generally more outreach roles on campus than there were a decade ago,? he said.