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MAS PACE Media Training Course
MAS PACE is inviting you to register for our Media Training Course to help you combate the struggles of the media today and make your voice heard!
This course is a progressive two and a half our course starting from:
Basic Media Training for Beginners:
Have you wanted to get involved and portray your point of view but don’t know how, or maybe you don’t have a lot of time?
Well, basic media training may be just what you’re looking for! Social media makes a big impact! You don’t have to be an expert to make a difference, and it doesn’t take a lot of time to post comments online!
This course covers how to be a media activist
1. How to write letters to the editor
2. How to post comments online – what’s the protocol? How to be effective
without being offensive. How to maintain Islamic manners while engaging in
debate.
3. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,SnapChat and YouTube – The basics.
Outcomes:
Participants will have set up social media accounts, learned how to effectively
post comments online and learned the basic components of a letter to the editor.
In addition to the above, participants will write a letter to the editor on a topic of their choice; shoot and edit a video on their Smartphones and upload
to their new YouTube channel; Start building ‘followers’ on Twitter; build Instagram network; learn how to boost posts on Facebook and techniques to get more ‘friends.’
Intermediate Media Training – Going beyond:
How to devise media strategies for your event or campaign.
This course covers:
1. Traditional media
2. How to create messages, talking points, goals and objectives ,
3. Traditional vs social media
4. Measurables
Advanced Media Training:
How to get a Press Release and Op-Ed Published. Takes a hard look at media advisories, press releases and OP-Eds. Will Illustrate the difference between those articles that editors ignore and those that get published.
Course Includes:
1. Difference between a media advisory and press release and when to use each
2. Inverted pyramid/ how to write like journalist
3. Formula and tips for op-ed writing
4. How to pitch op-ed to editors
5. List of nationwide op-ed editors
Trainer: Kristin Szremski
Kristin Szremski is an award-winning investigative journalist with more than 20 years as a reporter and editor in the newspaper industry. Her work has appeared nationally and internationally, including on Al Jazeera English, the Dallas Morning News, and Zyzcie Warszawa in Warsaw, Poland, among many others. She was a long-standing correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. She is a member of the National Press Club, Investigative Editors and Reporters, the Association of Women Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Ms. Szremski currently is the director of media and communications for the national advocacy and education organization American Muslims for Palestine. She is also a board member of US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a coalition of more than 400 organizations nationwide, and she is on the Board of Directors of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, an umbrella group of 65 Chicago area mosques and Islamic centers. She is also a former member of the American Islamic Association’s Board of Trustees in Frankfort, IL.
Ms. Szremski currently is the director of media and communications for the national advocacy and education organization American Muslims for Palestine. She is also a board member of US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a coalition of more than 400 organizations nationwide, and she is on the Board of Directors of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, an umbrella group of 65 Chicago area mosques and Islamic centers. She is also a former member of the American Islamic Association’s Board of Trustees in Frankfort, IL.