Workshop links - Talking up a storm: media 101
Here are the links and my slides from the Talking up a storm: media 101 workshop I ran at the Common Grace Aotearoa gathering on Saturday 11 November 2023.
Presentation
Talking up a storm: media 101 workshop presentation (password protected with CommonGrace)
Handbooks
The NEON guide to progressive media work
Resource Manual for A Living Revolution: A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists by Virginia Coover, Ellen Deacon, Charles Esser and Christopher Moore (1985)
The Joy of Lobbying by Deidre Kent (2003)
Getting in the news
Pitch a story to media: Create the right pitch to get your story published form Think New Skills Lab (NZ government)
Media Checklist for Actions by Nicola Paris
NZ media list from Community Comms Collective
Interviews
Giving Great Media Interviews: The Basics - 350.org
Messaging
Common Cause Values Map and Definitions, see also The Workshop
Mega list of narrative, framing and other messagings resources from the The Commons social change library
Top 3 Messaging Tips from Anat Shenker-Osorio at Progress 2019 by Joel Dignam
Strategic Messaging: Resistance School Course (12 part video course) by Anat Shenker-Osorio, Resistance School
Messaging this Moment: A Handbook for Progressive Communicators from Community Changer (USA)
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age (2022) by Anand Giridharadas, plus Wild with Sarah Wilson podcast episode Anand Giridharadas: How to persuade people in a polarised world (1 November 2023)
A Future Untold: The power of story to transform the world and ourselves by Alina Siegfried (2021)
Who is who in NZ news
Here’s the quote from Deidre Kent’s her list describing what a good campaigner from The Joy of Lobby.
11 - A good campaigner is a news nerd
Potters are interested in pottery, musicians in music. Campaigners are interested in current events - it ks their lifeblood. They will watch television news as much as they can bear, they will be on the internet, they will read the papers avidly and listen to the radio, especially the news and news commentaries. They might even listen to talk back a bit. They will buy every paper and magazine they can lay their hands on or afford. Collecting newspaper clippings is their hobby. Letters to the editor columns are as exciting to them as new varieties of roses to avid rose gardeners.
Who I regularly watch, follow, like and pay for:
Newsroom - leading independent news
Re: TVNZ’s youth-focused current affairs
E-Tangata - an online Sunday magazine dedicated to building a stronger Māori and Pacific presence in the New Zealand media.
Te Kākā - Bernard Hickey solutions journalism media empire
MediaWatch - bi-weekly media commentary show on RNZ
Bonus - unleashing your story power
Free 5 Day Story Challenge with Moya Sayer-Jones + Only Human Stories
Living Proof Advocacy - we help transform lived experience into powerful advocacy