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CMW eNotes • July 24, 2007
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Inside this issue of CMW eNotes 7/24/2007
• Tell Your Story
• Partner to Partner
• People to Pitch
• This Week's Newstips
• Other Events Around Town
• New on the Web
• Communications Jobs
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Learn to tell your story at a CMW workshop
“When I went to my first [CMW] workshop, I had no real understanding
of how to work with the media,” says Michael Pollock, vice president
of external affairs at mental health services provider Thresholds. “I
went in feeling very green.”
Pollock was exposed to local journalists who wanted to hear his story.
“I gave one of the reporters at the workshop my contact information,
and later she called me to set up an interview with our CEO for a
story,” he said. Contacts he made at the workshop also helped spark a
couple of additional stories on WBEZ, the local public radio outlet.
“[CMW] has really helped take away some of the mystery of dealing with
the media,” he said. “It’s really not as scary as I thought it would
be.”
Workshops currently scheduled include:
Present Like a Pro: Public Speaking Basics 9/19
Whether to present, persuade, or both, standing before a group of
people is communications at its most essential. For many of us, it
doesn't get any scarier than this. MORE
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NEW! Delivering Your Messages During Media Interviews 9/27
"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail" when dealing with the media.
MORE
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NEW! Your On-line Strategy 11/8
This workshop will go beyond an overview of the state of the art to
detail the important stuff that sometimes gets left out of the
discussion. MORE
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Tell Your Story With Video 11/16
Have a story that your group or organization wants to tell with video?
Bring your ideas to this workshop and learn how. MORE
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Story Power 11/29
Information and statistics alone are not enough to engage a journalist
or any other audience. Instead, they want to hear your organization's
story. MORE
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Professional Media Relations 1/25/2008
Participants in this intensive five-week course designed specifically
for nonprofit communicators plan media campaigns around one of their
own stories, while learning basic public relations skills. MORE
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Look for more at our Web site in a few weeks!
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Partner to Partner
Read up on local issues like the recent charges dropped for a Chicago
Iraq vet at Columbia College’s citizen and student reporter website,
Creating Community Connections at www.creatingcommunityconnections.org
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Listen to speakers from past CMW events like the Community Media
Summit, Making Media Connections or Studs Terkel 2007 Media Awards
benefit via Chicago Public Radio's Chicago Amplified at:
www.chicagopublicradio.org
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People to Pitch
Sun-Times editorial page editor
Cheryl Reed
The Sun-Times named Cheryl Reed, most recently books editor, to run
the editorial section (Steve Huntley, former editor, is now writing a
column). She announced July 10 she's "reconceiving" the editorial
pages and returning them to their "liberal, working-class roots." We
caught up with her to find out more:
What's different on the Sun-Times editorial board?
We're trying to make the editorial board more modern, more diverse and
make the members a reflection of the city. We want another Latino
writer, another African-American. I hope to make the editorial pages
more engaging, provocative. We want to look at issues and be more
progressive and write about issues that we think people in Chicago
care about. More with the concerns of everyday, average people who
live in the city.
Who's new?
Well, it's only my second week, so I'm still interviewing. But we've
totally redesigned the section. We now have illustrators. We're also
pushing people on staff to be more opinionated. We're looking at doing
signed editorials. You'll have a sense of who's writing what. We're
expanding more avenues for people to talk back. We're eventually going
to do a blog. We're really trying to make this a contemporary
commentary section that will engage modern readers.
Do you think you can make a difference?
Yes, and I think that is what was appealing to me about taking this
job. I had been an investigative reporter. The people we are hoping to
acquire for the board, I'm hoping will be very strong reporters.
What audience are you trying to reach?
People who are in the city or work in the city and are concerned about
it, who have a core love and concern for the city and what's going to
happen to it.
Reach Cheryl with editorial--not story!--pitches at creed at suntimes.com
[mailto:creed at suntimes.com] .
Find more "People to Pitch" in our 2007 Getting on Air and Into Print
media guide. Get it here
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Newstips
Judge Orders Release of Police Data
Newstip Date: 07-13-2007
While the City Council considers an ordinance that would increase
transparency in the police department's handling of misconduct
complaints, the law department is opposing a legal effort to publicly
release data on that very subject. Read Full Article
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Do you have a newstip? Contact Curtis Black.
curtis at newstips.org [mailto:curtis at newstips.org] | phone:
312-344-7783 | fax: 312-344-6404
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Other Events Around Town
Blogher.org Annual Conference
Times vary July 27 to 29, Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave.
Blogging conference with a female bent includes sessions about
identity, community, art of life, technology and the business of you.
Prices vary. Student rates available. Register by July 20 at
www.blogher.org
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Black Public Relations Society "Summer Mood Swings" networking party
6 to 10 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 1 at Zocalo, 358 W. Ontario
Raffle prizes include two free registrations for the annual National
Black Public Relations Society conference coming to Chicago in
September. Cost is $15, members; $20, others. For Chicago BPRS
membership info, contact Jeri Bingham at jeribingham at gmail.com
[mailto:jeribingham at gmail.com] . For more about the national
conference, visit
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CommunityMediaWorksh/e8715752f0/6e2d8e2f37/4114592ace
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Call for Nominations
July 31 deadline
Chicago Innovation Awards seeks nominations for unique products or
services that have satisfied an unmet need, created a "me too
response" and exceeded customer expectations. Companies must be from
Chicago-land area including southern Wisconsin, southwestern Michigan
and northwestern Indiana. The Chicago Sun-times will profile winner.
Winner decided in mid-September. Learn more and nominate someone at
www.chicagoinnovationawards.com
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Chicago Reporter Documentary Film Competition
5 p.m. Thursday, August 16 Deadline
Film competition and festival is looking for shorts examining race
and/or poverty issues in the Chicago-area. Winning entry will air on
WTTW11 Chicago's "Image Union." Enter and learn more at
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CommunityMediaWorksh/e8715752f0/6e2d8e2f37/bbce800dad
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Computer-Assisted Reporting, Mapping Workshops
August 5 to 10 and August 17 to 19 at University of Missouri-Columbia
Five-day computer-assisted reporting (CAR) boot camp will train
journalists to analyze and translate databases and spreadsheets.
Separate three-day seminar will use geographic information systems
(GIS) to demonstrate how to match data with geographic locations.
Prices vary. Registration required. Learn more at
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CommunityMediaWorksh/e8715752f0/6e2d8e2f37/b800befeba
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CommunityMediaWorksh/e8715752f0/6e2d8e2f37/c9ef042658]
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New on the Web
Web sites and features from the Workshop’s partners and friends
Free Clipping Service, Free topic-specific news articles emailed to
you at www.clipandcopy.com
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. The site delivers stories that have mentioned your company, product,
competitor or subject of interest. Sources include the Associated
Press, United Press International, Reuters and online newspapers and
magazines.
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Communications Jobs
Associate Director, Development and Communications at Illinois
Institute of Technology
This position is part of a newly-formed group that provides
communications strategy, writing and editing support, and project
management for Institutional Advancement (IA) communication
initiatives. The Assistant Director works closely with his/her
colleagues in communications group - Director, Senior Writer and
Editorial Assistant - as well as fundraising and alumni relations
staff and the Communications & Marketing department. Someone with 5-7
years related professional experience. demonstrated skills in writing
and editing, and experience in design/production is preferred. Get the
full announcement at
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CommunityMediaWorksh/e8715752f0/6e2d8e2f37/5336809c7e
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Program Associate, Fight Crime Invest in Kids
The Associate will take primary responsibility for increasing
membership and motivating members to take a variety of actions to help
us achieve our goals. Working with other staff, the Associate will
make our members more effective and committed spokespeople to
policymakers and the media on the crime-prevention impact of
investments in kids. The Associate will also help with all aspects of
generating media attention; including organizing media events,
outreach to media outlets, preparation of materials, and preparation
of spokespeople. Applications must be received by 8/1/07. Applicants
must fill out a questionnaire, receive more details at
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CommunityMediaWorksh/e8715752f0/6e2d8e2f37/809d75fb55
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conversation with Greg Pierce the president of ACTA Publications about
what books people are reading this summer and the role books play in
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