Blogs
Nora Ferrell, NP Communicator blogger
Nora Ferrell is Vice President of Community Media Workshop. She has been helping nonprofits tell their stories around the region for years. From managing a national media campaign to restore the Great Lakes to publicizing the Burge torture cases to promoting the importance of buying locally-made products, Nora has worked on an array of social issues and found herself invested in every single one. She recently helped a newly-created think tank in Minnesota increase their visibility in the news, streamline their blog and online communications, and build its brand as a credible source of research and news. She’s excited to share the communications tools and tricks she’s learned with others in her position at the Workshop. Visit the Blog | Subscribe to the Blog
Curtis Black, Newstips blogger
Newstips is a grassroots news service providing journalists with stories and sources from Chicago-area nonprofits and community organizations. Journalists can receive Newstips via email (sign up at www.newstips.org) or subscribe to this RSS feed. Nonprofits can submit their press releases by emailing Curtis at curtis@newstips.org. Visit the Blog | Subscribe to the Blog
Steve Franklin, Chicago is the World blogger
Steve Franklin is an award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He covered the Middle East for the Tribune as a bureau chief and on numerous assignments in the region. He has also reported from Central and Latin America. Besides the Tribune, he worked for the Detroit Free Press, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Miami Herald, and the Washington Daily News. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer prize, and a series of his articles were among the top investigative stories cited by the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2007. Steve Franklin also works with the Community Media Workshop on outreach to and support for Chicago’s 300 print, broadcast, and on-line ethnic news outlets. He has trained Egyptian journalists for the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and for the Cairo-based Media Development Program. Visit the Blog | Subscribe to the Blog
Staff Broadcast Shows
Community Media & You
With host Thom Clark in Partnership with CAN TV21
Behind the scenes in Chicago’s neighborhoods and news–local media and civic action. Thom Clark, CMW President, hosts lively discussions with well-respected Chicago journalists and community leaders.CAN TV provides coverage of events relevant to the local community and gives every Chicagoan a voice on cable television by providing video training, facilities, equipment, and channel time for Chicago residents and nonprofit groups. CAN TV’s five local, noncommercial cable channels, CAN TV19, 21, 27, 36 and 42, reach more than one million viewers in the city of Chicago.For more information about CAN TV and other local Chicago programming, visit its website at www.cantv.org.
City Voices (Archive)
“City Voices” is a public affairs radio show that had been broadcast weekly on WNUA, 95.5 FM since January 1995 up until the June 2009. Partners included the Chicago Reporter and Catalyst both published by the Community Renewal Society.
“City Voices” by Community Media Workshop was hosted by Thom Clark and broadcasted at 6:30am every Sunday on WNUA, 95.5.
Chicago is the World Radio
Produced and hosted by the Workshop’s Demetrio P. Maguigad.
Chicago is the World is a project of the Community Media Workshop’s Ethnic Media Program lead by Journalist and Blogger Steve Franklin and collaborating partner Demetrio Maguigad in order to give voice to Chicago’s ethnic communities and media outlets.
The show will feature both traditional and contemporary music from immigrant communities in the U.S. and tracing their musical origins to their various homelands, including fusion, rock, jazz and more. Featured guests from Chicago’s ethnic communities are invited to introduce listeners to both popular and culturally significant stories through music and sounds.
Airs every Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on WHPK 88.5, University of Chicago Community Radio. Check the WHPK website for live stream, updates and scheduled times.
Accepts relative cultural events and PSA’s to be read over the air. Contact Demetrio at 312-369-7499 or email demetrio@newstips.org.
Proyecto Latina
Hosted by the Workshop’s Diana Pando
Proyecto Latina provides a platform to showcase work by Latina writers, poets, performers and artists. It is where Latinas in the arts and media intersect. We tell you about the work and impact these women have on our communities.
For Proyecto Latina the third Monday of every month is an evening of celebrating the creativity of a select Latina artist, the chisme box and providing a platform for everyone through our open mic. In our fourth year, we bring you the next wave of Latinas in the arts.
