Master Media Engagement
March 18th, 2014Don’t blame the messenger, folks: When Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda blogged and tweeted recently about the show’s difficulties in recruiting female guests, he elicited a firestorm of protest. But what […]
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February 6th, 2014“You’re not making the best use of your prime real estate,” Chamika Ailapperuma told us. (Which was news to us: we didn’t even know we HAD real estate!) An experienced […]
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January 27th, 2014Last month, Informed Opinions’ Project Manager, Claire Bellefeuille published an op ed in the Ottawa Citizen expressing the wish that people would stop telling her daughter, Lily, how beautiful […]
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October 14th, 2013I don’t often shout back at the TV, despite the vast volume of material it broadcasts that I find vile or banal. But last week I couldn’t help myself. The […]
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October 10th, 2013Jian Ghomeshi calls it common sense. But will the government listen? Last week, some of Canada’s most notable women (including Informed Opinions Honorary Patrons, Senator Nancy Ruth and the […]
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September 23rd, 2013The following op ed was published in the Ottawa Citizen 23 September 2013. Constance Sugiyama, pictured at right, a respected mergers and acquisition lawyer and honorary patron of Informed Opinions, […]
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July 1st, 2013The positive responses to our video campaign in pursuit of a more inclusive O Canada are still outpacing the cranky ignorant ones, and among the most inspiring was an email […]
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June 29th, 2013The following op ed, commissioned by the Montreal Gazette, also appears in today’s Saskatoon Star Phoenix. It’s like poking a hornet’s nest: Dare to suggest that the words to the […]
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April 24th, 2013In the following 3-minute clip from a recent BBC interview, Gloria Steinem explains why the women’s movement is more important than ever. (Spoiler alert: Yes, it does relate to the […]
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April 9th, 2013There’s no predicting what impact your media intervention might have, but here are a couple of recent examples of the ripples created by published op eds… ****** Two days after […]
read more...Media exposure creates ripples of influence