I'm curious what the goal of communicating with this journalist was. News organizations get paid by the pageview, so they have an incentive to sell a story, not spread the truth. And journalists also are famous for misrepresenting the people and topics they cover. (Typically when I read something in the press that discusses a topic I know about, they almost always get it a little wrong and often get it a lot wrong. I'm not the only one; this has gotten discussed on Hacker News. In fact, I think it might be interesting to start a "meta-journalism" organization that would find big stories in the media, talk to the people who were interviewed, and get direct quotes from them on if/how they were misrepresented.) If media exposure is a goal, you don't work with random journalists who come to you telling you that they want to include you in stories. You hire a publicist or PR firm that does the reverse and takes your story to journalists and makes sure they present it accurately.