Media Alliance : Classes

Classes

Media Alliance offers affordable training in communication skills for social justice. Students include nonprofit staffers, mediamakers and activists. All classes are taught by working professionals.

Journalism and media skills: Training and education for freelancers to sustain a robust independent media sector.

Strategic Communications: Learning how to use the media to amplify your message

Media Activism: How to work constructively to change media access, coverage and ownership.

Limited tuition breaks available upon financial need. Sign up now!

"This is the only place in the Bay Area offering these high caliber classes in the evenings and weekends. Media Alliance instructors are better than career educators. Media Alliance instructors have more experience = better, more relevant instruction" - 2008 Student Evaluation

"Media Alliance is a great place - quality classes, reasonable prices. I will recommend MA to everyone and help spread the word" - 2009 Student Evaluation

MA Certification - Proofreading
September 11th, 2010
Whether professional proofreading is a skill set you seek to employ in your current job or offer as an independent service for supplemental income (or both!), Media Alliance certification conveys to employers and clients yours is a recognized commitment to upholding editorial excellence.

MA Certification - Copyediting
September 25th, 2010
Review the fundamentals of copyediting and acquire a better sense of how to balance and serve the best interests of your three clients: the publisher, the writer, and the reader. With drills in grammar, punctuation, spelling, and diction, this fast-moving class explores the practical knowledge and skills copyeditors bring to the task of editing, both online and on paper. The goal is for students to see through an experienced editor's eyes how best to communicate wisely while resolving gracefully manuscript questions and issues of awkward writing.

Classes

	MA Certification - Proofreading
	MA Certification - Copyediting

9/11: MA Certification - Proofreading

9/25: MA Certification - Copyediting

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	The Battle to Control Media Systems: The Culture of Professionalism Versus Cultures of Direct Participation
	One World Radio: Live from the Allied Media Conference
	Free The Radio Spectrum
	From Mississippi to Arizona

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