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Everybody Complains About the News... We're Doing Something About It

There's more to city life than the standard media diet of death, disease,
crime and corruption. We all know this; and we need to know that people
throughout Chicago are working to solve or ease seemingly hopeless urban
problems.  The Community Media Workshop, a non-profit organization, provides
the necessary link between the news media and community and civic groups that
are making our city a better place to live and work.

The Community Media Workshop does this by:

1) Training community leaders and activists in our Professional Media
Relations Workshop to communicate effectively with reporters and editors
about the news value in their work, whether it's job training in Humboldt
Park or community policing in Englewood.

2) Publishing bi-monthly community Newstips with information about grassroots
community initiatives, and sending them to more than 250 media professionals.

3) Publishing Getting On the Air & Into Print: A Citizen's Guide to Chicago-
Area Media, the most complete and most affordable media directory of the
Chicago-area's print and broadcast outlets.

4) Critiquing press releases and providing spokesperson training for
community leaders planning press conferences and other media events.

5) Conducting forums and Brown-Bag Lunches on vital issues that deserve more
news play than they are getting.

6) Providing media with lists of community spokespeople and experts on issues
they are preparing stories about.

7) Consulting on media and providing trainings around the United States.

The Workshop, operating out of Columbia College's downtown campus, is
dedicated to the concept that people can do more than complain about the news
they are getting; they can make news of their own.

Our current 5th Edition of Getting On the Air & Into Print is available.  $40
nonprofit/$80.00 everyone else.

For more information about Brown Bag Lunches, workshops, and other programs,
or to order our media directory, contact:

Community Media Workshop , c/o Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan, Chicago,
IL. 60605
(312) 663-3225; FAX (312) 663-3227

Thom Clark
President    at Thom.Clark@mail.colum.edu

Hank DeZutter
Vice-President  at HankDZ@aol.com

Veronica Drake
Newsdesk Manager   at mediagrl@aol.com