Using the print media to tell your story
This short, practical course will prepare you for getting your message across in the print media. The interactive workshops will explore rationales for using the print media to tell your story and simple ways to write short accessible pieces for newspapers and magazines.
The course will explore how to engage journalists through effective media releases and explain how you can use the news cycle to get your story out into the community. Participants are asked to bring story ideas that can be developed into effective media releases or short opinion pieces as part of the course.
Here's what some participants have said about this program:
- Very good for academics needing guidance / advice
- This was a very enjoyable and useful course by a terrific presenter
- It was interesting, useful and encouraging
Target Audience
All staff interested in engaging with the print media.
Presenter
Dr Michael Anderson teaches and researches in media, drama and education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work. Michael appears regularly in the print and electronic media discussing elements of his research and teaching.
In 2009 he co-authored Teaching the Screen and in 2006 he co-authored Real Players: Drama, Education and Technology (Trentham, 2006) which was the first publication of its kind in the field. This research monograph emerged from his doctoral thesis which was a winner of the AATE distinguished dissertation award.
Michael has an M.A. (Hons) in Journalism and is a Chief investigator on Accessing the Cultural Conversation (Large ARC Grant 2007-2010) and The Role of the Arts in Academic Engagement (2009-2011).
Duration
9.00am - 4.30pm
Venue
Ground Floor, Bligh Building (L03)
90 Carillon Avenue, Newtown
Sydney University Village
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Dates
- 24 July 2009 COMPLETED