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 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 (Archive)
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.

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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.

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RSS The Nonprofit Communicator

  • Practice makes perfect, and other interview tips February 1, 2012
    When I work with nonprofit leaders who are preparing for media  interviews, one of my first pieces of advice is, “Remember, you’re in control!” The media needs your help to tell the story, and you’re the expert on your organization’s issues. So, if that’s the case, why do we find ourselves floundering in media interviews, […]

RSS Newstips by Curtis Black

  • Nuns target sex trafficking at Super Bowl February 2, 2012
    Women from eleven religious orders are working with hotels in the Indianapolis area to curb sexual trafficking associated with the Super Bowl this weekend […]

RSS Chicago is the World

  • Let’s show them how global we are January 26, 2012
    For several days in May the world will know, we hope, what we know here. We are the world living here on this big lake with the large flat plains at our back. We come from everywhere and we are Chicago. Let me explain and let me ask your advice, also. From May 19 to […]
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