Happy Holidays to our Media Writers!
Are you a writer? Join the party.
By Claudia Taller
The Annual Communicators Holiday Party promises to be jolly. Find the party at The City Club on Wed 12/7 at 6PM.
The City Club of Cleveland’s lobby and meeting rooms will be festooned with lights and greenery, tables will be filled with appetizers filling enough to make a meal, and glasses will be raised to toast another year of trying to write well. The City Club of Cleveland, a Citadel of Free Speech, is the perfect place for writers to gather for a holiday celebration.
You may be familiar with the noon podcasts from The City Club, where renowned personages step up to the podium and have their say. The City Club is one of the oldest free speech forums in the country and is renowned for offering a place where people can open up important issues for debate and discussion. The website says “Our mission is to inform, educate and inspire citizens by presenting significant ideas and providing opportunities for dialogue in a collegial setting.” That may seem like a steep calling, but The City Club was incorporated almost 100 years ago, and is noted for its tolerance and perseverance. Theodore Roosevelt, every US President since Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other political and social dignitaries have stood at The City Club to way what needed to be said.
Behind the scenes of every good news story, website, or marketing communication is a writer who is trying to say what needs said the best way he or she can. Armed with a Journalism, English, Marketing or other communications degree, and with back-up from a community of friends, people who make their living from writing often do so within the vacuum of the place where they work or in their home office. Like the writers who gathered around the now demised The Lit, writers for news organizations and corporate America have organizations to support them.
Several groups, including the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), gather every year for the annual Cleveland Communicators Holiday Party at the City Club, 850 Euclid Avenue. SPJ Cleveland is one of the 10 largest SPJ chapters in the nation, and has been serving the needs of Northeast Ohio working journalists for 55 years. The organization is “dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior.” The national organization was founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, and based in Indianapolis.
The Cleveland Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America serves public relations professionals in Northeast Ohio through events, accreditation courses and sharing of information. Its accreditation program was established in 1964 and the program promotes lifelong learning and career enhancement through establishing skills required for public relations professionals.
SPJ and PRSA members are pleased to open up this great networking event to all journalists, freelance writers, business communicators, public relations professionals, retirees, and their spouses. Join Cleveland’s communicators for an evening of gaiety at 850 Euclid Avenue on what was one of the world’s most outstanding streets.
To RSVP click here by Fri 12/2. This year’s event will convene on Wed 12/7 from 6-9PM, and the cost is $30/person.
Claudia Taller’s book Ohio’s Lake Erie Wineries was just released by Arcadia Publishing. Find out more about the book by going to http://OhioLakeErieWineries.blogspot.com and order it through Claudia by sending an e-mail to claudia.taller@yahoo.com.