VCU news

By Anne Buckley

Virginia Commonwealth University’s Office of Communications and Public Relations reminds media representatives of the policy and guidelines regarding access to its campuses and the VCU Medical Center.

To facilitate the reporting of news and events at VCU and the VCU Medical Center, media requiring access to our campuses and personnel must arrange interviews and photo shoots with VCU faculty, staff or patients in advance through this office.

To ensure confidentiality, privacy and appropriate sensitivity to students, patients and families, reporters, video crews and photographers should be accompanied by a Communications and Public Relations staff person while on the VCU campuses.

Hospital security will remove unauthorized media from the VCU Medical Center as necessary.

Media may not enter student housing or position themselves at the entrances to student housing. Patients who agree to be interviewed on the hospital premises must provide prior written consent and a CPR representative must be present.

Members of the media who require assistance after hours, on the weekends or holidays may contact Communications and Public Relations through the 24-hour paging service at (804) 759-7675. Please be aware that off-hour, on-call assistance is limited to true news emergencies, not enterprise reporting.

VCU’s media guidelines can be found at http://www.news.vcu.edu/for_media/media_guidelines.aspx.