A media training workshop to help faculty members and others learn how to successfully share their expertise with a broader audience will be held from 9-11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 5, in Room 04 of the Sanford School of Public Policy.
The workshop, offered by Duke’s Office of News and Communications, will include discussions and handouts on how to handle an interview and become a source for reporters; how to establish a social media presence; how to effectively communicate your research; international communications; and media relations activities that promote faculty and their work, including op-eds and news tips.
There will also be a faculty panel discussing how to balance media outreach with other academic priorities and opportunities for a few of the attendees to take part in a TV mock interview. Panelists will include Laurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History and the founder and faculty director of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at Duke, and Donald Taylor, a Sanford School professor who specializes in health policy.
This is the 16th year that the workshop has been offered, and hundreds of Duke faculty members have benefitted from this workshop.
Space is limited, so please RSVP by Feb. 1 to sakiya.lockett@duke.edu.