Be a Media Advocate

As a UUSC media advocate, you help to raise awareness of critical social-justice issues in the United States and around the world — and influence public opinion. Specifically, UUSC media advocates engage the media to raise issues relating to UUSC's program work and advocacy campaigns.

Tips and Tools for UUSC Media Advocates

• Guidelines for Writing Op-eds/Letters to the Editor [PDF]
• Talking Points about UUSC [PDF]
  

Sample* Letters to Newspaper Editors

• Two Sample Letters to the Editor - Minimum Wage [PDF]
• Two Sample Letters to the Editor - Minimum Wage [DOC]
• Sample Letter to the Editor - Haiti [PDF]

Examples** of Letters to Newspaper Editors

• Example Letter to the Editor - Darfur Peacekeeping [PDF]
• Example Letter to the Editor - Sudan Divestment [PDF]
• Example Letter to the Editor - Hurricane Katrina [PDF]

Examples of Op-eds

• Example Op-Ed - Haiti [PDF]
• Example Op-Ed - Haiti [PDF]
• Example Op-ed - Civil Rights [PDF]

Sample Press Releases/News Advisories

• Sample Press Release - Civil Rights Journey [PDF]
  
• Sample Press Release - Service-Learning Trip [PDF]
  
• Sample Press Advisory - Reverse Trick-or-Treating [PDF]

For more information about being a UUSC media advocate, contact Paul Twitchell, UUSC director of communications.

* Sample letters and op-eds are suggested models for writers to use or preferably to adapt and put in their own words.

** Examples are already published letters and op-eds that can be used to get ideas about substance, style, and format, but writers should not use the same or similar wording of any sentence or groups of sentences.