The “Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon” has one area of focus regarding media and public relations. The Media Relations and Public Relations department works with journalists to develop stories about the hospital’s treatment and patient care, fundraising activities, events and programs that benefit the Center.

If you are a journalist/member of the media, please call our Communication Officer Miss. Marie Claire Feghali at the numbers listed below, or e-mail media relations for assistance with a story/interview regarding:

• the hospital’s life-saving research or treatment
• an expert on any of the diseases CCCL treats
• an official statement about CCCL
• CCCL fundraising events

• CCCL fundraising campaigns or corporate promotions
• Patient’s stories

Media Policy
The CCCL media policy aims to organize all media incoming requests for covering, reporting, photographing and videotaping news and features about the CCCL.

Please be aware that any media inquiry has to abide by this policy. Therefore, whenever a media request reaches CCCL, the Media Relations and Public Relations department will assume the media representative has read the policy and approved it.

Breaches of this agreement may be subject to legal measures, and the CCCL withholds the right to stop collaborating with the Media outlet involved.

1.  Responsibility

• The Communication Officer is the sole responsible for managing media relations, contacting proper staff members to be featured or interviewed as fit.
• The Communication Officer is responsible for coordinating with the Medical Team representative in all issue regarding media, whether medical or not.
• Mass Media releases include local or international TV and radio stations, newspapers or magazines and websites through personal, written, telephone or internet communication.
•  The Communication Officer will be responsible of monitoring any article, VT, feature, stand up, in TV, Radio and Newspapers prior to broadcast/ publication, and post broadcast/ publication.

2.  Policy

• The Communication Officer is the only person entitled to contact the Media, and maintain coordination and cooperation with its representatives.
• All interviews of CCCL staff and faculty/employed physicians by media, whether by phone, e-mail or in person, require advance authorization from the Communications Committee, via the Communication Officer.
•  Parental permission is required for videotaping, photographing and/or interviewing patients. A Medical Team representative will work with the media to obtain permission on a case-by-case basis. This why processing media request needs time.
•  All Media Outlets are required to fill a form made available upon request or downloaded from the CCCL website: www.cccl.org.lb
• All material should be subject to monitoring by the Communication Officer and/or Communication Committee. No material should be allowed to go public without the CCCL formal consent/ agreement and the approval of the Media representative.  This does not affect the Media’s right of speech.
• Press release or mass media interaction by telephone are to be avoided.

Media Policy

Contacting the CCCL

1. As a Media representative, you need to contact CCCL Communication Officer, one week prior to your deadline. As stated in the Media Policy section above, the approvals needed take time.
2. The Communication Officer will provide you with a form, by fax or email. This forms can be downloaded from the website www.cccl.org.lb
3. If your request is approved, you will be contacted briefly.

Student Inquires

If you are student working on a project with CCCL as your topic, please use the CCCL Web site as your reference. You can also contact our team for interviews or inquiries

Contact:
Marie Claire Feghali
Communication Officer

Tel: + 961 3 485 300,
        + 961 1 366 052
        + 961 1 374 444 ext : 8139

Fax : + 961 1 360 496

Email : mf37@aub.edu.lb