{"id":76104,"date":"2022-01-19T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=76104"},"modified":"2022-03-08T13:21:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T18:21:51","slug":"online-workshop-to-focus-on-writing-for-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/01\/online-workshop-to-focus-on-writing-for-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Online workshop to focus on writing for The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Brock University joined <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Conversation Canada<\/em><\/a> five years ago, more than 81 faculty members have published 222 articles garnering more than 3.1 million reads.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to introduce more Brock faculty to writing for <em>The Conversation, <\/em>University Marketing and Communications and the Office of Research Services are hosting the online publication\u2019s Editor-in-Chief, Scott White, for a workshop on Wednesday, March 2. The session will run from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Conversation Canada <\/em>is a daily independent online publication, delivering analysis and explanatory journalism from the academic and research community directly to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The website is a not-for-profit collaboration, which Brock University is a partner in, where professional editors work directly with academics and researchers to publish articles for a wide audience. <em>The Conversation <\/em>provides the content to a wide range of media outlets for no charge.<\/p>\n<p>During the workshop, White will explain the mission of <em>The Conversation Canada<\/em>, offer some background on how it helps academics with knowledge mobilization and give some tips on how to pitch a great story idea.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interactive\u00a0workshop\u00a0where participants are encouraged to bring story ideas to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in taking part is asked to email Dan Dakin at <a href=\"mailto:ddakin@brocku.ca\">ddakin@brocku.ca<\/a> or Cathy Majtenyi at <a href=\"mailto:cmajtenyi@brocku.ca\">cmajtenyi@brocku.ca<\/a> to be added to the virtual event meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to introduce more Brock University faculty to writing for The Conversation Canada, University Marketing and Communications and the Office of Research Services are hosting the online publication\u2019s Editor-in-Chief, Scott White, for a workshop on Wednesday, March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[10052,1250,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76944,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104\/revisions\/76944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}