Increasing your chances of media coverage starts with creating an effective media list. Sign up for Community Media Workshop’s ”Building a Media List” workshop and give your next media campaign leverage with a strategic media list created from our own database of media contacts. Instructor Demetrio Maguigad will teach participants the techniques to identify media contacts for future campaigns. Participants will walk away from the session with a targeted media list, personalized for your organization, as well as 24-hour access to the Workshop’s online Chicago media guide. REGISTER NOW
The new 2012 Getting On Air, Online & Into Print media guide is now in stock and available. Those who have order their advanced subscription should be receiving their books soon.
For over 21 years, the Community Media Workshop has published Chicago’s most comprehensive directory of media contacts across the Chicagoland area and also includes, regional, Midwest and National contacts. This year’s media guide now includes more planning guides, worksheets and tips to help you get started in telling your story. It also includes new and updated curated contact lists byt topic including Arts, Education, Environment, Health and more. Learn more here and subscribe.
BUILDING A MEDIA LIST Tuesday, October 18, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM With Demetrio Maguigad, Community Media Workshop Are you struggling to create a strategic media list for your media outreach? In this workshop you will access the Workshop’s online media database and learn how to create customized contact lists for your organization or campaign. The instructor will give participants tips on how to think about and identify media contacts. Participants will walk away from the session with a targeted media list, as well as 24-hour access to the Workshop’s online Chicago media guide.REGISTER TODAY! Read the rest of this entry »
The attorneys general of seven states, including Illinois, have recently joined the Department of Justice’s lawsuit to block AT&T’s proposed merger with T-mobile. What does this mean for you? How will corporate media’s actions affect your organization?
On Thursday, September 29, Community Media Workshop will host a brown bag lunch discussion on the ramifications of this merger, the actions you can take to protect your rights and defend your media, and learn about the national media justice coalition working on these issues. Panelists include: Amalia DeLoney, Center for Media Justice; Erin Polgreen, The Media Consortium.
Join us! Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 5:30 to 8:30 pm
Long-time Workshop Board Member Mike Roach, a Senior VP at Weber Shandwick, will be bartending at Prairie Fire on Sept. 14 to raise money for the Workshop. Join us for this fun event. Your tips will benefit the Workshop and help us put on communications trainings for nonprofits throughout the year.
On June 28th, 2011, Community Media Workshop & the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council hosted an event at Northeastern Illinois University that brought together Black and Latino media and community groups to talk about their efforts against violence in their respective Chicago neighborhoods for the We Are Not Alone / No Estamos Solos campaign. This video by Free Spirit Media showcases the spirit of this project for peace in Chicago.
The We Are Not Alone / No Estamos Solos campaign is an effort to bring peace to Chicago neighborhoods by linking the local media and community groups.
Thanks to your input this summer, the Workshop is pleased to offer a new lineup of Fall trainings! Learn how your nonprofit or small business can develop a communications plan; effectively use social media; and get your story covered on television, online, and in print!
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, […]
Half of all itemized individual donations to Super PACs came from 37 people giving over a half-million dollars each; TV revenues from political ads are expected to nearly double over four years ago, to $5 billion this year. […]
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 […]
Programming at Chicago Public Media’s Chicago Amplified
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Join us! Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 5:30 to 8:30 pm
