PPH provides multi-media journalism training to members of community-based organizations. We build media skills and access for under-served communities and strengthens the impact of their social justice campaigns.
We have taught media skills to day laborers in Queens, NY, who produced audio samples to inform their peers about labor laws, nannies who produced a documentary about their fair wage campaign, street vendors who produced a radio piece about reforming existing vendor laws. We have also trained members of communities living in FEMA trailers in post-Katrina New Orleans and a community of women in Liberia who want to function as watchdogs reporting on the upcoming presidential elections, and more.
A great example of our media training success is our previous work with the Domestic Workers United (DWU), a group that advocates for domestic workers across New York State. In DWU’s formative years, PPH trained members on how to speak to the press. This training helped elevate their media savvy and presence and also helped them hone and clarify their campaign goals. We also trained members in the craft of journalism and collaboratively produced pieces that were broadcast through venues ranging from Free Speech Radio News to wider outlets such as the BBC. Over the years, DWU members have appeared on major media outlets including the Colbert Report where they were able to announce the passage of the 2010 Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in the New York Senate for which they worked tirelessly to achieve.