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If you have a story to tell, you can get it published in a newspaper or magazine with a little know-how and discipline. You have to know how to find a great story, how to make sure you're the right person to tell it, how to pursue it, and who to talk to. Plus, you need to know who to pitch it to! In this class, veteran journalist Marc Cooper (Atlantic Monthly, NY Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone), will share her tried-and-true secrets for pitching editors, finding experts, and checking your sources. He'll show you how to shape your story by focusing on the best angle and by picking and choosing the most interesting information. He'll teach you everything you need to know to write an 800 word interview or review, and you'll get her expert feedback on your idea and how to structure it. By the end of class, you'll be on your way to completing a draft of a gripping profile or review! You'll be well on your way to joining the ranks of the 54 Writing Pad Alums who have sold essays and articles with Writing Pad's help!
Sunday, July 20, 2014
6:30 p.m. -9:30 p.m.
Cost: $90 (includes snacks and tea)
Location: Writing Pad West (10445 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024)
Note: Class will be limited to 10 students
About Marc Cooper:
Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, journalism professor and blogger. He is a contributing editor to The Nation. He wrote the popular "Dissonance" column for LA Weekly from 2001 until November 2008. His writing has also appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, the Christian Science Monitor, Playboy and Rolling Stone. His translated work has been published in various European and Latin American publications including the French daily Liberation and the Mexico City-based dailies La Jornada and Uno Mas Uno. He has also been a television producer for PBS, CBS News, and the Christian Science Monitor. His radio reports have aired on NBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC. Cooper has published three books: Roll Over Che Guevara: Travels of a Radical Reporter (1994), an anthology of his journalistic pieces,Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti Memoir (2001) which was an L.A. Times best-seller, and The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas (2004). He is also a full time member of the journalism faculty at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, as well as the Associate Director of the Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism.
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688 S Santa Fe, Apt. 312
Los Angeles, CA 90021
United States
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