April newsletter: Surviving COVID-19 + Terkel news + Tracy Baim

Headlines from our latest newsletter

Tracy Baim with Studs Terkel at the 2005 Community Media Awards | “Any time you tell me I can’t do something, I will work even harder,” said Baim, in the first installment of Voices of Our Time, a blog series featuring past Terkel winners.

• We created a dedicated page of COVID-19 Resources on our website.
• President Jhmira Alexander wrote a letter to our Chicago community on the COVID-19 pandemic.
• We announced the date of the 26th Annual Studs Terkel Community Media Awards (Sept. 24), and opened nominations (due by May 31st): http://bit.ly/Terkel2020
• Blog editor Mareva Lindo published the first installment of the Voices of Our Time series on past Terkel Award winners, this time featuring Chicago Reader publisher Tracy Baim (CMA 2005).
• In March we held three free "People, Pegs & Pitches" webinars to help answer the question: How do you tell your story when everything is shut down? Watch the replay here.
• Help ensure a fair and accurate census: Use our #TogetherWeCount 2020 Census Toolkit to raise awareness of the census, and help reach hard-to-count populations. Click here to see our full newsletter with more Census resources.

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