"Journalists do include appropriate caveats or even decide not to run a story when conclusions are tentative, but that happens only because they have been given enough time and breathing space to assess it." Citation needed.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05789-4 …
My experience is that whatever you put on the study is academic (pun intended) because most journos with tight deadlines don't read it anyway It's often about the press release, good ones can change the narrative entirely
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A university will, in general, not write a press release for a preprint. It's not even considered by most media policies I've seen, let alone expressly permitted.
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Damn. Maybe there should be a preprint media release website for scientists to write their own
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