[Imc-newsroom] Youth Vote/Crisis/Pitch Your Tip/Terkel

[Community Media Workshop]

COMMUNITY MEDIA WORKSHOP'S eNOTES - November 18, 2004
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On Chicago's CAN-TV Channel 21. . . 

* YOUTH AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS * 
featured Saturday, November 20, 8 p.m. on Community, Media & You

How did youth involvement in campaigns, voter education and voter turn out
impact this year's election? Throughout Chicago and in Wisconsin, students
registered voters and served as election judges. How was all this
accomplished?  Will youth interest continue even if their candidate lost?
Ram Vilivalam, a Chicago High School student; Claire Finn, a
teacher/organizer from Lincoln Park High School, and Brian Brady, Executive
Director of the Mikva Challenge offer their answers to host Thom Clark.

For more about the Mikva Challenge, see Newstips at
http://www.newstips.org/interior.php?section=Newstips&main_id=321&topic=

For more about the youth vote and youth media, see Newstips at
http://www.newstips.org/interior.php?section=Newstips&main_id=412&topic=

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One last 2004 workshop . . .

* CRISIS COMMUNCATIONS AND THE MEDIA *
Friday, December 3, 9 a.m. - noon 
at Community Media Workshop on Columbia College's south Loop campus at 623
S. Wabash, Suite 201, Chicago.

When something bad happens that involves your organization, how you handle
the media afterwards can have a deep effect on the future of your
organization. Get a taste of what will happen at this workshop at
http://www.newstips.org/interior.php?section=PR+Tips&main_id=418. 

To register online, go to 
http://www.newstips.org/register/index.php?section=Workshop&calendar_id=5.
The fee is $95.

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At www.newstips.org . . . 

* PITCH YOUR NEWSTIPS *
http://www.newstips.org/forms/suggest_newstip.php

Bookmark this page! Here's an easy means to pitch your news to Newstips
editor Curtis Black. Newstips previews grassroots community initiatives.
Newstips are added to newstips.org frequently with links at the top of the
front page. The site also houses an archive of Newstips including items
from 1996 through August 2002. More than 700 journalists receive this
tipsheet.

* HELP FOR OVERWORKED, STRESSED-OUT NEWS RELEASE WRITERS * 
http://www.newstips.org/interior.php?section=PR+Tips&main_id=141

Try our guided press release creator tool in the PR TIPS section of our
website.

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Mark Your Calendar . . . 

* STUDS TERKEL AWARDS *
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Join us for an elegant, friendly night that brings together media and
nonprofit movers and shakers. Honor the accomplishments of journalists
covering under-covered news.  To see pictures and read about our last
awards night, go to
http://www.newstips.org/interior.php?section=Calendar&main_id=355.

* MAKING MEDIA CONNECTIONS Conference *
June 1 & 2, 2004
Newsmakers, journalists and media-relations experts converge annually for
this two-day conference at Malcolm X College to discuss how to get news
that matters on the air and into print. 

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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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