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[Community Media Workshop]

COMMUNITY MEDIA WORKSHOP'S eNOTES - December 17, 2004
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On Chicago's CAN-TV Channel 21. . . 

* WHAT DID THE MEDIA MISS? * 
featured Saturday, December 18, 8 p.m. on Community, Media & You

While the media was covering big international and national stories this
year, many important local stories got shuffled to the side.  Those stories
and what journalists will or should be covering in 2005 will be discussed
during this year-end reporters roundtable by Chicago Reporter's Alysia Tate
and Chicago Public Radio's Carlos Hernandez Gomez and host Thom Clark. 

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WINTER MEDIA RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATION WORKSHOPS

Special lunch time workshop kicks off fall training series . . . 

* TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION: STATIC FREE *
Thursday for lunch, January 27, 2005, 11:45 a.m. - 2 p.m. 

In these times customer service is more important than ever and many
interviews with media are done on the phone. Learn telephone techniques
from Loree Vick, who sold many a story and conducted countless telephone
interviews as an anchor and reporter for CBS and Fox News. For more info
and to register, go to 
http://www.newstips.org/register/index.php?section=Workshop&calendar_id=56


Five Fridays of intense media training . . . 

* PROFESSIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS  *
Friday mornings, February 4, - March 4, 2005

This five-week course, offered specifically for nonprofit groups, will have
you planning a media campaign around one of your own stories while learning
basic public relations skills. For more information and to register, go to
http://www.newstips.org/register/index.php?section=Workshop&calendar_id=1

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It's not good-bye...

* HANK DeZUTTER SHIFTS GEARS *

Community Media Workshop occasionally gets media too. In case you didn't
catch the last item in Michael Miner's Chicago Reader Hot Type column this
week, check it out at http://www.chireader.com/hottype/2004/041217_2.html. 
Workshop co-founder Hank DeZutter will shift gears from Workshop
vice-president to Workshop consultant. Hank will remain involved in
workshops and the annual conference and be quite accessible.  To wish Hank
good wishes or contribute a story about Hank, go to
http://www.newstips.org/guestbook/guestbook.php.

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It's a new year, time for the new . . . 

* GETTING ON THE AIR & INTO PRINT 2005 *
Order at http://www.newstips.org/cart

News outlets' staff is everchanging.  Journalist change beats all the time.
If your resolution for the new year is to work smarter, get your new guide
now.  This year's guide includes information about more than 3500
journalists, plus: 
€ new feature articles and advice for best practices in media relations 
€ more email and beat information, plus journalists' preferred methods of
contact, and
€ expanded listings for midwest daily newspapers and other regional
outlets. 

The CD-ROM is searchable, sortable and exportable, allowing you to make
your own lists and labels, and the CD features advice and insight from
prominent journalists in video clips. If you've not tried it, make this the
year you start using it.  We've made it even more user-friendly.

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Community Media Workshop is a nonprofit organization of educators,
journalists and media relations experts helping other nonprofits doing
vital work in their community connect with the media and visa versa. We
provide workshops, an annual conference, awards and recognition for
journalists, a journalists' tipsheet, briefing papers, sources, and a media
guide. 

Community Media Workshop 
at Columbia College 
600 S. Michigan 
Chicago, IL 60605 
312-344-6400 
http://www.newstips.org

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