Media Training Workshop for Historians

Monday, January 5, 2015: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Concourse E (New York Hilton, Concourse Level)
Chair:
Christian J. Purdy, Oxford University Press
Speakers:
Clay Risen, New York Times
Bill Parkhurst, Parkhurst Communications
Sarah Russo, SarahRussoPR

Are you looking to increase your media profile? Do your articles and op-eds get ignored or rejected by editors at mainstream periodicals? Do you panic and mumble into the mic when doing radio interviews, or fumble and flail when in front of a camera? Do you have, or need to have, a social media platform to get noticed by major media today?

For helpful tips in crafting articles and op-eds that don’t get rejected, participating in radio and TV interviews and navigating social media platforms that will highlight your research and establish you as producers’ go-to historian, join Clay Risen of the New York Times's Disunion blog; Bill Parkhurst, media trainer; and Sarah Russo, freelance publicist and brand and platform consultant, to understand a few simple insights on how to get editors to say “yes” to your pitch, and producers to add you to their address books and book you onto their radio/TV shows.

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