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You have a great idea for a spellbinding article, celebrity profile, or reported essay that you're dying to get published. How do you make your pitch stand out so it doesn't disappear into the slush pile? How do you target the right editor at the right publication? In this one day class, veteran journalist Marc Cooper (Atlantic Monthly, NY Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone) will pull back the curtain of secrecy to show you what editors look for in queries and the process for landing a writing assignment. Through an informative craft talk and targeted feedback from the instructor, you'll learn how to make your story idea relevant and give it some extra umph. Marc will also cover how to splice the same story to multiple outlets, share his secret formula for a good pitch, reveal her strategy for how to maximize readership, and give tips for working your outlets for additional work. By the end of class, you will have created a query letter and pitch that is so compelling that you'll be on your way to a feature contract and you'll have learned some invaluable tools to keep getting published!
Instructor: Marc Cooper
Monday, July 14, 2014
7:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m.
Cost: $95 (includes snacks and tea)
Location: Writing Pad East (688 S. Santa Fe Ave #312, Los Angeles, CA 90021)
Note: Class will be limited to 8 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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LocationWriting Pad East (View)
688 S Santa Fe, Apt. 312
Los Angeles, CA 90021
United States
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