AWC Members
Embracing Change
Four years ago, I was quite unexpectedly laid off from my job as a features editor at a newspaper in North Dakota. I was heartbroken. I loved that job and I loved my team. I was being paid to ...
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Best Practices
“Reliable” Media And Where To Find It
The world has always needed accurate and reliable news, but 2020 just hit different, as the kids say. The novel coronavirus pandemic seemed to erase major 2020 events like the Australia bushfires and the 2020 US Presidential Primary from ...
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AWC Members
AWC Chair Statement on Current Affairs
Dear AWC Community: For weeks – and yes, days – we have been in places that we have not been before – and my heart is breaking. We are a country in crisis and there are three major factors: ...
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AWC Members
Trust in the Time of COVID
My mom hasn’t been a New Yorker since college and lives on the West coast. But part of her regular routine during this time of COVID-19 crisis includes turning on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily briefing, putting on gentle music ...
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AWC Members
No Wasted Days During COVID-19
As this post is being written, COVID-19 is impacting daily life across the globe. In the U.S., schools and offices have moved online as cities and states are issuing shelter-in-place orders and citizens practice social distancing. In a time ...
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AWC Members
A Letter from the Chair
Serving the Organization and Planning for the Future When I was recently elected Chair of the Association for Women in Communications National Board of Directors, I was humbled but simultaneously reflected on the motto of AARP where I worked as ...
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AWC Members
AWC Members Making Change: Joanne Gerstner
The e-mail popped into my clogged work box last spring, looking as innocent as the rest. It sat quietly between the offers for cheaper pizza, a student class question, an interview request, and the rest of the stuff floating ...
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AWC Profiles
Being Brave
I love the reaction I get when people ask me what I do for a living. When I say, “I’m the investigative correspondent for Inside Edition”, people’s eyes go wide and they usually say something like, “Wow! That sounds like ...
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News
Technology & Broadcasting
The Today Show (Australia), in the 1980s, was the masthead for Channel Nine – and so proud of its position in the forefront of all that was new, modern and dynamic in communications. We had faxes. I can’t begin ...
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AWC Members
Need a Confidence Boost? Go for a Clarion Award
I will never forget my first Clarion Award! I was communications director for the Illinois Comptroller’s office and we revamped our constitutionally mandated monthly fiscal report with a new look, bright colors and graphics, and articles on state revenues, ...
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