How To Write To Change The World: An Op-Ed Project Seminar July 26, 2009

Community Media Workshop

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

How To Write To Change The World: An Op-Ed Project Seminar

Did you know the op-ed pages of our nation’s newspapers are overwhelmingly dominated—80% or more—by men? You can change this!

Sunday, July 26

10AM to 5PM

Spertus Museum

610 S. Michigan Ave. - Room 313

Includes breakfast and lunch

REGISTER TODAY!

Learn to us the Op-Eds to sway public opinion and change the world.

“We got an op-ed in Women's E-News! Many thanks to CMW for
offering the op-ed workshop; I know it helped me immensely!” - Laura Fletcher
Communications and Advocacy Manager Chicago Foundation for Women
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3948

Op Ed pages of major newspapers are read by policy makers, business people, scholars and those in the highest level of government. Because the op-ed pages feed all other media, the under-representation of women here perpetuates and exaggerates the under-representation of women in larger ways.

In this seminar you will learn to:

* Identify the ideas and causes you care about and
* Show you how to write about them to make a difference
* Get trained on how to generate winning ideas and craft powerful arguments
* Gain an understanding on how to frame an issue to make your point and persuade your readers

Space is limited so register today!

http://www.theopedproject.org/cms/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=18&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=76

Trainer Catherine Orenstein’s Op-Ed Project has been featured in The New York Times, Feministing.com and on CBS News with Katie Couric. It is an initiative to expand public debate, with an immediate focus on targeting and training women experts across the nation to project their voices on the op-ed pages of major newspapers, online sites and other key forums of public discourse, currently dominated by male voices. Catherine is the founder of the Op-Ed Project and she has written on culture, mythology, and power for The New York Times (where she is an occasional contributor to the op-ed page), The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine, and Ms. Magazine, among other places. Her opinion pieces have run on the Knight-Ridder newswire and appear in anthologies.