Community Media Workshop will give $2000 to a Columbia College student with the best Grassroots project.
Deadline for Applications is Feb. 4, 2011.
The award will be presented at the Studs Terkel Community Media Awards on March 9, 2011 – be sure to save the date!
What are the Studs Terkel Community Media Awards?
Louis B. “Studs” Terkel, the “patron saint” of Community Media Workshop from its founding in 1989, gracefully and graciously led these tributes to a special kind of Chicago journalism — the kind that, in the words of Salim Muwakkil at the March 2009 event, “is more important now than ever before.”
Presented annually, the Studs Terkel Media Awards honor outstanding media professionals for excellence in covering and reflecting Chicago’s diverse communities. Terkel Awards highlight reporters who take risks in covering social issues by offering new or unusual perspectives on topics of general concern, from housing to neighborhood safety and beyond. The awards reward a body of work rather than a single article or series, and go to journalists at any stage of their career.
We value your support, and hope you can join us this year.
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goodWorksconnect.org presents The Power of Stories
Anyone is welcome to join in these free online sessions hosted by goodWorksconnect.org and the Community Media Workshop. Simply register to become a member of goodWorksconnect.org, an online community space and virtual resource center for Illinois’ nonprofits.
The Power of Stories series
Wednesday, October 20, 10:00 to 11:00 am, Building a Communications Strategy
Online Discussion – facilitated by Thom Clark
Wednesday, October 27, 10:00 to 11:00 am, Know Your Message
Online Discussion – facilitated by Thom Clark
Tuesday, November 2, 10:00 to 11:15 am, Story Power
Webinar – facilitated by Sue O’Halloran
Powerful storytelling has the ability to captivate the media, potential funders and future members. Learn how to use the power of stories to move your target audiences to action through this online series. All sessions are FREE but you MUST participate in the online discussions to attend the Story Power Webinar. For more information, click here.
Community Media Workshop’s Ethnic Media Project will be convening an ethnic news briefing on Friday October 1st, 2010. The briefing will help inform ethnic news journalists and outlets on critical issues surrounding the election and its impact on local communities.
Read more on how to register for the briefing on the Chicago is the World blog
Why would anyone want to invest in the L3C model? And why could it provide a flexible funding model the media industry needs now?
Those are two of many questions asked on Friday as panelists John Plunkett, ceo of Harborquest, and Chicago journalist Sally Duros discussed with media entrepreneurs, journalists and nonprofit communicators how this new model of financing could create sustainable economic support for the media. The event was supported by The Chicago Community Trust and through its Community News Matters initiative.
Duros wrote about L3Cs for our New News report last year,
The L3C merges foundation money, specifically program-related investments, with investor’s cash in a mission-based business that puts purpose before profits…Under this model, a newsroom will pay a living wage to journalists and executive leadership while earning a return for investors. Most importantly, because it is mission-based, the L3C signals a return to the historical value of newspapers: local news. Read the rest of this entry »
The Chicago Community Trust’s Community News Matters program and Community Media Workshop invite you to an informational session May 7 to discuss the L3C model and how it might benefit new news organizations looking for a more flexible method of organizing that differs both from standard business incorporation and 501c3 nonprofit status.
When: Friday, May 7; Coffee at 8:30; program from 9-10:30
Where: Room 401, 600 S. Michigan Ave. at Columbia College Chicago
We’ll discuss what an L3C is and why some new news journalists have been exploring it. Harborquest CEO John Plunkett, whose nonprofit helped initiate the enabling legislation that created L3Cs in the state of Illinois and was the first to use the new status, will talk about how to take advantage of L3C status and how it fits into the new wave of “social venture investing” in Chicago. Moderated by Workshop president Thom Clark.
Other panelists will discuss how new news outlets specifically can take advantage of both L3Cs and social investing.
We hope you’ll join us to find out more about the new L3C model.
This event is free but please RSVP by emailing Maggie Walker at maggie@newstips.org.
Making Media Connections is right around the corner and we want to make sure you take advantage of our EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT. Register before April 30 and get 20% off registration and be entered to win your very own FLIP CAM. Sign Up Today! This year our annual conference highlights how nonprofits tell their stories and develop communications strategies in a digital age.
JOIN US! Making Media Connections annual conference “Storytelling and Strategy in the Digital Age” June 9 and 10, 2010
Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor www.communitymediaworkshop.og/mmc2010
For more information on the various panels and workshops, and to register for the Making Media Connections, go to www.bit.ly/mmc2010 or call 312-369-6400. Read the rest of this entry »
TWEET, TWEET - FREE
May 6; Noon – 1:30 pm
Evanston Public Library
1703 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, IL
REGISTER TODAY!
Wondering what the hype about Twitter is and how it benefits your organization? Community Media Workshop’s Diana Pando discusses Twitter best practices and ways our organization can use it to further your mission. Panelists include: Panelists include: Panelists include: Lovette Ajayi (Red Pump Project) Bill Smith (Evanston Now) Angela Brown (ABDCo.), and Antony van Zyl (Evanston Online.com). More panelists TBA. Co-Presented with The Evanston Public Library. Here’s more about the panelists: Read the rest of this entry »
Registration is at 11:30 a.m., program runs noon to 1 p.m. at The Edgewater Hotel in Madison.
With news and communications changing, how can we get our stories out through established news outlets, other media such as online or community and ethnic news, and our own media, from newsletters to Web sites to Facebook? There are a lot more options than there used to be, but no more time or other resources. Gordon Mayer leads a lunchtime session on how changes in social media and the news are affecting how nonprofits and others tell their stories effectively. Cost is $20 members, $30 nonmembers or $12, students. Learn more and register here.
