ARS has a variety of online tools to assist news media and other professional journalists in covering ARS research and the agricultural sciences. Among our main products and services of interest to journalists:

• The latest ARS news
   
• Subscriptions to our e-mail news products (daily, weekly, Spanish language, special topics)
   
• Photo resources (online digital products, low and high resolution)
   
• Agricultural Research magazine
   
• RSS feeds
   

If you do not find what or whom you need, we're ready to help. Please feel free to—

• Phone the ARS Information Staff main office at (301) 504-1636
   
• Phone or e-mail a staff specialist about—
  • Media queries
     
  • News contacts for every ARS laboratory
     
  • Information Staff services
     
  • Research topics
     
• Browse the list of our Current Information staff

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Contacts for major Information Staff services and responsibilities—

• Director of Information
  • Sandy Miller Hays, (301) 504-1636
     
• Press inquiries and news reporting
  • Sean Adams, (301) 504-1622
     
• Photography
  • Anita Daniels, (301) 504-1609
  • Stephen Ausmus, (301) 504-1607
  • Peggy Greb, (301) 504-1620
     
• Web pages
  • Nancy Vanatta, (301) 504-1610
  • Jan Suszkiw (Science for Kids), (301) 504-1630
  • Dianne Odland (Teachers Desk), (301) 504-1633
  • Kim Kaplan (Food & Nutrition Research Briefs), (301) 504-1637
  • Laura McGinnis (Healthy Animals), (301) 504-1654
     
• News distribution
  • Nancy Vanatta, (301) 504-1610
     
• Video news releases
  • Marcos Ocadiz, (301) 504-1629
• Magazine
  • Bob Sowers, (301) 504-1651
     
• Publications
  • Jody Shuart, (301) 504-1660
     
• Education outreach
  • Dianne Odland, (301) 504-1633
     
• Visitor center
  • Jennifer Woodward-Greene, (301) 504-9403
     
• Freedom of Information Act
  • Valerie Herberger, (301) 504-1640
  • Stasia Hutchison, (301) 504-1655