>Hello All,
>
> Below is a summary of the Writer's Group meeting held Monday Dec. 3rd,
> 2007.
>
> *For larger publications (ex: Star Tribune), we would like to assign one
> person to each publication to read and monitor it for factory farming,
> animal issues, or food issues. You can do this either manually or through
> the RSS feed. Once you find a story that is relevant to CAA, you would
> then send a notice out to the Writer's Group informing them of the story,
> and finally, someone would volunteer to respond to the article/newscast.
> Our goal is to respond to at least one story a week.
>
> *For small publications (ex: Sun Current), we are going to assign one
> person to each publication to both monitor and respond to. Most of these
> publications are weekly or bi-weekly, so it should be easier to monitor.
> We would also suggest you choose a publication that you are familiar with
> or have easy access to, as this will make the process easier and more
> enjoyable. So far, Gil has volunteered to cover The Bridge, Sara B. has
> volunteered to cover Minnesota Women's Press, and Moira has volunteered
> to cover both the Sun Current and the Southwest Journal. The goal with
> the smaller publications is to establish a relationship with the
> publication - so we get the point of not only responding to their
> articles, but writing articles (opinion and freelance) ourselves!
>
> *If anyone is intimidated at first about writing for publication, feel
> free to e-mail your story idea/and or stories to Sara before submitting
> them for publication and she will gladly do a quick copy edit.
>
>If anyone has any publications they know they would definitely want to
>cover or has any story ideas (think Holidays!) they would like to publish,
>let me know and we can work something out that best suits your time
>schedule and interests.
>
>Thanks,
>Sara Blair
>
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Sara Blair
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Minnesota
