Maria Taylor Leaves ESPN As Studio Host, And Reporter To Join NBC Sports

Photo Credit: NBC News

According to AdWeek, Maria Taylor, Studio Host, and Reporter for ESPN has left the network to join NBC Sports and potentially be a member of NBC’s Tokyo Olympics team.

“The departure had been expected since early this month when The New York Times reported on disparaging comments made about Taylor by one of her colleagues at ESPN, Rachel Nichols. In a conversation with an adviser to LeBron James that Nichols was unaware was being recorded, Nichols, who is white, said that Taylor, who is Black, had gotten the role of hosting the NBA finals instead of her because ESPN executives were “feeling pressure” on diversity according to an article in the New York Times.

ESPN shared on Wednesday, in a statement, that Taylor’s last day was her Finals telecast during Game 6 of the NBA Finals - with the Milwaukee Bucks taking the championship.

Because the pandemic pushed basketball into the summer for the past two seasons, Taylor exceeded her contract which was supposed to expire during the off-season for both the NBA and NFL. According to NY Mag / Intelligencer, “Taylor was reportedly offered $5 million per year during contract negotiations, which she turned down.”

Taylor could potentially be in the on-deck circle to become the host of Football Night in America since Mike Tirico is moving to Sunday Night Football full-time in the fall of 2022.

Behind The Scenes On Tin Shingle Making The Media Contacts Better

Tin Shingle is an Idea Center for many who want to be featured in social and news media. We are always tweaking things under the hood, and have some new looks coming for you in our Media Contact Idea Center, courtesy of our Media Contacts Boss, Kat Stoutenberg, who is a maker herself, and quite obsessed with databases.

In the coming weeks, we are going to have a regular email that highlights random amazing media contacts from our database that you may never have imagined were there. But could be perfect fit for an idea from you!

The best way to search for needles in a haystack in Tin Shingle's Media Contact Idea Center is to search by Area of Interest. You can cross-reference between that and a specific media outlet, but we encourage you to dive down rabbit holes of Areas of Interest. If you have any favorites you think we should know about, please share them anytime! Even if that favorite is you (are you producing content?)!

To view the full details of these Media Contacts, you must be a member of Tin Shingle. Join today!

WINNIE TATAW
Winnifred Tataw (Winnie) is an artist, author, and blogger with a lifelong love of literature and art. As a writer of YA Fiction, she creates beautiful fantasy worlds with compelling and intriguing characters. She resides in South Carolina and is an undergraduate at the College of Charleston. In addition to her writing, Winnie is an extensive artist, making her statement through painting, sketching and crafting. She loves to highlight others writing and art projects, and takes submissions to be featured on her website. Writers are featured in her "Spotlight" section.
Areas of Interest: Blogging, Painting, Art, Literature, YA, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Black Media, Poetry, Muslim Media, Creating, Writing
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AARON IDELSON
Aaron is a full-time Production Assistant for the Jimmy Kimmel Show. But is really a Podcaster and a YouTuber. He began creating YouTube videos in 2010, all things digital production followed. Self-taught creative producer, video editor, graphic designer, and more. Aaron's podcast is Queering The Air!, a weekly podcast hosted by Aaron Idelson and Matt Rohrer. Each episode features a queer guest discussing their lives and how their experiences, specifically surrounding their queerness, have shaped who they are today. Making the world a bit more gay every day.
Areas of Interest: LGBTQ, Relationships, Self Love, Self Worth, Gay, Queer, TV, Entertainment, Comedy, Social Media, Creating, Photography, Film, Media
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PHIL SURKIS
Phil Surkis found that his passions for writing, storytelling and music all collided. When the smoke cleared, he found himself producing podcasts. He produces podcasts for other people including Lady Don't Take No, Slate's Big Mood Little Mood, and Zappa Cast.
Areas of Interest: Writing, Music, production, Black Media, Podcast, Comedy, Politics, Script Writing, Audio
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HerMoney Features Period Panties and Sustainable Products

Period and product in the news! Thanks to @hermoneymedia who brings the issue to the planet (soooo many pads, tampons, adhesive things, wrappers) and the dollars spent on period products. HerMoney highlighted why investing in period panties save money and the planet.

Cloth period panties increases accessibility by making period products more affordable, if the person doesn’t need to buy as many disposable pads and tampons. The period panties live in the person’s drawer and go through the laundry. Consider donating period panties to food pantries when donating socks and toothpaste.

Do you make or do something related to period affordability and normalizing it? Consider pitching HerMoney with your story angle. Need help thinking of a story angle? Join Tin Shingle and get on a group TuneUp so that ideas can be exchanged in our group strategy sessions.

MediaMonitoring: Make Me Smart's Molly on China Cyber Attack; Uyghur Muslims Torture By China

Lots of long reads in Monday’s episode of Make Me Smart!

Monday was @mollywoodpro and Kelly Adams (you were missed of course @kairyssdal !) In their many link shares, after Molly pointed out Biden’s implication of China for cyber attack for Microsoft Outlook, she transitioned into discussion of the Uyghur Muslims in China, which the @bbcnews has covered, and other outlets have covered, and is horrific treatment of people.

Molly noted that the torturing of the Uyghur Muslims in the “camps” has been happening for years and is going on now. The Uyghurs were mentioned this week on a Markplace platform that usually doesn’t mention them often.

The episode’s lead-in was from a poet, talking of his Uyghur Muslim friends being taken one by one.

Ready To Stream: When A Good Morning America (GMA) Feature Goes Not The Way You Wanted

When A Good Morning America (GMA) Feature Goes Not The Way You Wanted

What happens when you get featured on Good Morning America, and the segment that the producer's air is not what you imagined - and you don't want to show it to anyone. What do you do? Can you still use it? How did this happen? MorayaSeeger DeGeare shares her experience during this TuneUp.

The dream came to this New York based relationship therapist - Good Morning America came calling. Moraya Seeger DeGeare of BFF Therapy in Beacon, NY  (you've seen her before at Tin Shingle!) started a chalk conversation movement from her side hustle activist brand - To My Old Racist Earth - during the beginning of the protests in 2020. And she activated it again in 2021.

Last year, a friend saw what she was doing and reached out. That friend worked for Good Morning America and wanted to feature the movement that encouraged children's participation.

Moraya organized several families for the producers to interview, and a lot of footage was shot. However, what aired was much different than Moraya expected. So much so, that she didn't want to share the full feature with her own following after it aired nationwide.

In the name of helping others, Moraya agreed to come on Tin Shingle's next TuneUp to talk about the experience. 

Here's what we covered:

• The Process: How the Good Morning America segment came to be.

• What to expect: Can the star of the story control the narrative?

• Analyzing the segment: What parts triggered Moraya and why.

• "Granddaughter Of": Moraya is the granddaughter of Pete Seeger, the musician who was a major figure during the Civil Rights Movement and in environmental justice. Will this always lead a segment, leaving a person feeling in a shadow?

• What to do next? What if you hate the segment? Should you bury it forever? No. We are going to milk it, and Katie will tell you why.

• Where do we go from here? You got Good Morning America - most people's biggest dream - now what?

• Sought After - but what if you want to steer? Moraya is approached often by the media as an expert in her field. When it comes to building buzz around her chalk movement, she realized that she needed to start pitching - just like everybody else! Katie will give her some tips. Not that she needs them! But all of us need tips and nudges.

See pictures of this segment in Tin Shingle's blog post, and watch the whole thing.

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A Beaconite + Palestinian, Lena Rizkallah, Speaks In Newburgh, NY Of Her First Generation Palestinian American Experience

I first met Lena Rizkallah when she reached out to Tin Shingle back when I was designing and building a co-work space, to bring a physical dimension to the digital community that has always been offered here at Tin Shingle. Lena came in to the space, loved the vibe, and wanted to rent the space to host her financial seminars and work from the shared desks from time to time.

I closed up shop soon after because the building sold and I wasn’t a fit with the new landlord. All good, things happen for a reason. Lena, however, hung around Tin Shingle, following our content. She was committed during the pandemic, to offering financial advice as things kept changing.

“They built an apartheid wall—an ugly cement wall that separates families in the Occupied Territories from the rest of Palestine. Here’s the irony—on the Arab side, the wall looms big, ugly, grey, with graffiti scribbled all over it, trash at the base and barbed wire on top and watch towers poking out from which Israeli soldiers observe the prisoners-the Arabs. On the Israel side of the wall, you don’t even recognize it because they’ve pimped out the wall with cool landscaping, shrubs, flowers and a sidewalk. ”

— Lena Rizkallah

When I first published about Palestine, when I first became aware of their crushed existence on the territory that is now called Israel (land is always shifting), Lena was the first to “Like” and even “Comment.” I had been shot down by a former Tin Shingler, telling me that the subject matter was too “controversial” for a business publication to publish about. My own husband said to me: “Do you have to cover everything?”

Well, since then, the world erupted (and here too!) in favor of Palestine (hello, Bella Hadid!), and even President Biden had to shift in his decades long support for Benjamin Netanyahu.

We had to quickly make it past theories like “Being pro-Palestinian is not Anti-Semitic,” which sadly paralyzed supporters in years past, like Penelope Cruz who would be branded as that when she voiced support. Not so this year after the racial re-awakening in the United States and world, as people are hyper aware of who is being oppressed, and who is suffering under violence.

Back in my hometown of Beacon, NY, there was a march being organized across the Hudson River (that river was formerly called “Mahicantuck,” which means "the river that flows two ways." This name was from the Native American tribe called the Lenape, who populated what is now known as the Hudson Valley region) in Newburgh, NY.

I attended the march as a reporter for my local publication, A Little Beacon Blog. The march met in an open mic session at Rep. Sean Maloney’s regional office in Newburgh. That’s when I saw Lena walk up the steps and deliver her speech. This was totally unexpected, as I had no idea she was Palestinian, or vocal.

Such is the benefit from attending protest marches. I can tell you from experience of covering Black Lives Matter protests during 2020 for A Little Beacon Blog: anyone who quickly puts “protest” and “looting” in the same sentence within 5 minutes is living in denial and doesn’t have an interest in learning about anyone else’s lived experience. Attend a march. I promise you will learn from it.

Lena’s speech was direct and comprehensive. She gave Tin Shingle permission to republish in full. Please take a read to learn her perspective. The video of her speech has been published below as well.

Lena Rizkallah 5/22/2021

“For so many reasons, being a Palestinian of the diaspora and an American is disorienting.”

— Lena Rizkallah

I am a proud first generation Palestinian American and I’d like to share a couple thoughts with you all about the situation in Palestine. I want to start by telling you all a quick story.

One of my earliest memories was when I was a little girl, maybe 4 or 5—I was playing with my older brother and he took my toy and wouldn’t give it back. I ran to my mother crying and tried to explain the severity of the situation to her and ended by saying ‘it’s not fair!’. She kneeled down to face me, wiped my little tears, looked me straight in the face and said “ya Lena life is not fair. There is no justice.”

Now remember, I was 5. But this was my mother’s experience and there was no reason to sugarcoat anything, even to a 5 yr old. And I’ve never forgotten that moment and that truth and it’s resonated throughout my life.

And it’s awkward because I am Palestinian American. Being an American means living with the confidence that when I put my head down to sleep at night, the worst that might happen is I have a bad dream or the AC is too loud or my dog hogs the bed. Being an American means that I can travel freely throughout the US and the world. I can work, build a career, send my imaginary kids to any school that I can afford. As an American, I have an expectation-a right- to peace and equality and justice.

On the other hand, I am the daughter of the Palestinian diaspora.

My mother is a Palestinian refugee born in a small town about 20 minutes from Haifa, and my father was an immigrant from Ramallah. In 1948 when my mother was about 6 years old, she had to flee her hometown with her parents and 2 sisters because the Zionists had reached her village. My grandparents were planning to return but they never did.

For so many reasons, being a Palestinian of the diaspora and an American is disorienting. I grew up feeling very different from other kids at school—not just because of my Arab fro and unibrow, my hummus sandwiches and the fact that my dad picked me up from school wearing a dishdsheh. People I knew since kindergarten asked me where I was from and when I said Palestine it took me 20 minutes to explain why you can’t find it on a map.

I felt different because while I felt the security of America, it didn’t jive with the experiences of my parents and the history of my family in Palestine. From a young age, I understood that sure, everyone deserves freedom and justice-- but not everyone gets it.

I grew up over the last few decades watching the occupation unfold, the Israeli state broadening its control over the land and resources, and its power and influence expanding over the world. We watched as its ideologies infiltrated the media, education, churches, world history and culture.

We have watched helplessly, infuriated, as religious Jewish families from Brooklyn could move into a Palestinian’s 150 year old home and squat there, demand the Arab family to show an Israeli-court approved deed (which of course they don’t have because they’ve lived there since before Israel) and eventually have the Palestinian family evicted.

Watched settlers and soldiers bulldoze over centuries-old olive groves, destroying the livelihood of extended Palestinian families.

“ I have hope that we can make change happen for Palestinians. I have hope that the world will look at Palestinians not as the ‘freedom fighters’ of the 1980’s or the ‘guerrillas’ of the 1990’s or the ‘terrorists’ of post-9-11 or as what they call us today— “Hamas” —but as mothers and fathers and students and children and people with hopes and dreams like all of us have. ”

— Lena Rizkallah

How the State of Israel confiscates swaths of land all over the West Bank, turning our land into Area A, Area B, and the worst, Area C, and penning the people inside.

How Israel created separate roads for settlers to drive around the West Bank on their way to Jerusalem and Haifa and avoid Arab villages.

They built an apartheid wall—an ugly cement wall that separates families in the Occupied Territories from the rest of Palestine. Here’s the irony—on the Arab side, the wall looms big, ugly, grey, with graffiti scribbled all over it, trash at the base and barbed wire on top and watch towers poking out from which Israeli soldiers observe the prisoners-the Arabs. On the Israel side of the wall, you don’t even recognize it because they’ve pimped out the wall with cool landscaping, shrubs, flowers and a sidewalk. Israel’s apartheid wall is like a prostitute getting ready for her next customer, covering up her used and abused body with a distracting leopard print dress and cheap perfume.

If you are a Palestinian born and raised in the West Bank, your family has been there for generations—check this out— although the Mediterranean Sea is only a 45 minute’s drive from you, you have never seen it because you have to beg for a permit from Israel—which they are unlikely to issue. There is no freedom of movement for Palestinians, every place outside of a few West Bank villages means humiliating checkpoints and permits, including a hopeful visit to the sea.

But if you are a Jew born and raised in Sydney, Australia and decide to move to Israel into a settlement near Ramallah for example, the sky’s the limit. You can have coffee at Starbucks in Jerusalem, meet a friend for a sushi in Haifa and go clubbing Tel Aviv --no problem. If this isn’t apartheid I don’t know what is.

They have done an excellent job of manipulating the narrative and telling the occupation story their way, so that every time they bomb or bulldoze homes and land, they do it in ‘self-defense’, to ‘protect their existence.’ This affluent country with the 4th most powerful military and probably one of the best intelligence/spy machines in the world that receives billions of military aid from the US every year—has Americans convinced that:

• The Palestinian man in Bethlehem who has to apply for a permit to go to his chemotherapy appointment—he is the terrorist.

• Or the Palestinian woman who has to give birth in the taxi while waiting in line to cross the checkpoint to get to the hospital – she is the terrorist.

• Or the little boy from Gaza walking around with a bucket collecting whatever broken toys he can pick up from the rubble of his home - he is the terrorist.

The most successful and devastating thing that Israel has accomplished is this—the unapologetic belief that the existence of Israel is so critical that it trumps the dignity and humanity of Palestinian; they can drop bombs flagrantly over Palestinian homes and bodies with impunity because the existence of Israel and the Jewish people is more important than the existence of Palestinians. That is Israel’s message to the world, and with the unwavering support of the US, it has been successfully heard loud and clear.

But despite the lesson I learned from my mother when I was 4, or the decades watching Israel encroach on more Palestinian land, I HAVE HOPE. I am old enough to remember when the bricks came down from the Berlin Wall; I remember when South Africa decided to confront and disassemble their policy of apartheid. I recall last year’s summer of rage and people protesting in the streets after the world watched a Black man suffocate to death under the knee of a police officer.

Individual voices-collectively –make change happen. I have hope that we can make change happen for Palestinians. I have hope that the world will look at Palestinians not as the ‘freedom fighters’ of the 1980’s or the ‘guerrillas’ of the 1990’s or the ‘terrorists’ of post-9-11 or as what they call us today-- “Hamas” --but as mothers and fathers and students and children and people with hopes and dreams like all of us have. That we don’t deserve to be bombed and murdered as the world looks away.

3 ways to make your voices heard:

• Keep talking about Palestine. Post about it, don’t be afraid to have a conversation about it and most important don’t let the ‘it’s so complicated’ argument keep you silent. Ask yourself as a human being, how do I feel about watching people being evicted from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah just as countless Palestinians were evicted in Hebron years ago and all over Palestine? How do I feel about watching families annihilated by bombs in Gaza? That’s worth talking about.

• Make a donation to a Palestinian charity that will help those in need-my favorites are UNRWA, The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and Islamic Relief USA. The ADC and IMEU are great organizations that track American policy, law and media towards Arabs and Palestine and work towards making change.
  https://www.unrwa.org
  https://irusa.org
  https://imeu.org
  https://support.adc.org

• Get involved by calling your representative to support a bill introduced in the House of Reps by Rep McCullum—HR 2590 The Palestinian Children and Families Act. Keep the pressure on our elected leaders to come to their senses—to start leading with humanity.

This struggle has been real for 73 years and probably won’t let up for a while, but I am so encouraged by all of the support from around the world and all of your shining faces here today. I HOPE that we can keep this up so that they can hear our voices in Gaza and feel that they aren’t alone.

Thank you.

Brooke Baldwin Leaving CNN To Amplify "The Lives Of Extraordinary Americans"

Photo Credit: Screenshot of Deadline from Everett Collection

As CNN has been restructuring its anchor lineup to point-point and reassign its political coverage, longtime weekday afternoon anchor Brooke Baldwin announced her decision to spread her wings outside of the network, telling viewers: “The next chapter of my life will be focused on what I love the most about my work: amplifying the lives of extraordinary Americans. There is just more I need to do… outside the walls of this place, a place I have been privileged to call home for 13 years. Yep, we’re still in a pandemic. No, I don’t have a job I’m jumping right into. Yes, I’m feeling very vulnerable.”

According to Variety, CNN declined to elaborate further on the decision. Announcements of anchors covering politics being reassigned or enhanced in their air-time have been announced since the new administration took place. Some of these anchors include Washington-based Brianna Keilar, who has been known to push back on officials in her interviews, and Alisyn Camerota, the “New Day” co-anchor in the morning, who “has steered the program though the bulk of the Trump administration,” according to Variety. Variety also reports that there has been consideration by CNN executives to move Alisyn to the afternoon.

Deadline reported that Brooke had a longtime goal of anchoring at CNN, and achieved it, as she explained to viewers during her announcement: “After most of my 20s working my way up in local news, I came to this network in 2008 – in the midst of the Great Recession as a freelancer. I remember I scribbled my name on a Post-It note and stuck it outside of this temporary office, determined to fulfilling my dream of becoming a full-time CNN correspondent.”

Brooke created the digital series on CNN called American Woman, which focuses on the stories of trailblazing women who have broken barriers in their respective fields and are now helping other women do the same. Brooke explains the genesis of the series here, where she quotes her southern mother: “Growing up, I wasn't encouraged to speak up or speak out," Brooke’s mother recalled. Brooke continued: “As I threw my arm around her, it brought me an important revelation, a clear view of the critical change wrought in a single generation of women: my mother and millions like her felt they couldn't use their voices, but they taught their daughters they MUST.”

Brooke has been working on a book, Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power published HarperCollins which will publish in April. Expect more from Brooke, and follow her to see how your self and/or your business could be part of her storytelling.

“You know, there is just more I need to do,” she said, “more I need to do outside of this place, outside the walls of this place, a place I’ve been privileged to call home now for 13 years.”

Read more of Brooke’s quotes from her announcement here at Deadline.

Tin Shingle is updating our Media Contacts with more of her contact information, to make finding and following her easier. Start your media membership with Tin Shingle today, designed for businesses, artists and makers, to make your media research and idea generating easier.

Media Monitoring: Markeplace Tech - Doubling Down On People, Climate, COVID

As media outlets find their grooves in how to cover a pandemic of COVID-19 as well as a social revolution, Marketplace Tech, the daily tech podcast hosted by Molly Wood, seems to be doubling down in its years long mission to cover unusual tech topics by highlighting the people - or people angle - behind them. The pandemic and protests of 2020 have leveled people so much, that every-day stories are looking more and more like gems.
From the Marketplace's family of podcast About page: “We’re a nonprofit news organization on a mission to raise the economic intelligence of the country. For more than 30 years, we’ve helped people become smarter about the economic forces that touch their daily lives through the unorthodox story, the casual conversation and the unexpected angle on the news. And while we are very serious about covering business and the economy, we don’t take ourselves too seriously."

Lately, host Molly Wood seems extra fascinated with stories that break down traditional assumptions about tech (that tech knows everything by itself, without human involvement, like in this story “Algorithms for vaccine distribution have a weakness: the people behind them” ), as well as how the virus has connected communities and will force (hopefully) regions to think beyond their borders so as not to ruin their neighbors, as has happened for centuries, or the dawn of time, like with this story “Making sure climate solutions don’t make more problems”.

Remote Learning is not going away anytime soon, so anyone starting a new program, or having new insights, should consider a story angle. This story, “For-profit online schools are getting a second look from parents” highlights a study that quite honestly made for-profit online schools look bad, with large student to teacher ratios, and made the public schools out to look like they had small student to teacher ratios. Anyone currently in the public school system knows this not to be the case. If this is you - if you created an online program, think of a story angle and pitch it!

Website designers are also big contenders here, as more and more businesses turn to the internet to stay connected to their customers. This story, “A possible life raft for small businesses selling online” featured Intuit’s (Quickbooks) new tool that connects people’s sales channels in their bookkeeping software to help sellers see where the money is coming from. Molly from Marketplace Tech made sure to mention that Shopify was on notice to be squashed by Amazon, which so far (hopefully) never happened (and may it never happen).

Make Sure Your Website and Social Media Is Ready

For any of these stories, make sure your website is ready to handle any sales inquires. If you sell a service, like a remote learning program or are a website designer, make sure there is a clear path for how people can reach out to you, or sign up with you.

Same goes for your social media. Need help with either of these? Get specialized guidance through Tin Shingle’s Private Training. Our sister company, Katie James, Inc. produces and designs websites, and works specifically with small businesses. Even if you have a design team already, we can help tell you what to have them do. Outside ideas are always helpful. Best of all, become a Tin Shingle Member and get in our Google Group to start giving and getting feedback.

Not Sure How To Pitch Marketplace Tech?

There are many story angles you could come up with. If you need courage to send one out, or feedback telling you are on the right track - or not - join Tin Shingle today to get connected into our Google Group and start a conversation to get our feedback. Tin Shingle does keep a database of Media Contact Ideas, some with job titles and email addresses. This particular lead encourages you to pitch into the generic email. But reaching a producer can’t hurt (usually)!

Marketplace Tech Story Angle Notice In Tin Shingle’s PR Leads

This story angle notice has been added to Tin Shingle’s PR Leads section. Marketplace Tech is looking for ideas, and they give their generic email for you to submit to. While anyone can hear this on their podcasts, Tin Shingle added it to our members-only PR Lead Center, as a way to help our members have one place to get different ideas.

Hedge Fund Seeks Ownership Of Local News Outlets In Chicago, New York and Baltimore

Media watchers like AdWeek and Nieman have been reporting on when a hedge fund acquires a news outlet. Today, AdWeek included this reporting on the publishing company Tribune Publishing being possibly acquired by the hedge fund, Alden Global Capital.

AdWeek’s 1/4/2021 reporting is below:

In the latest sign of the finance industry’s tightening grip on the local news business, Alden Global Capital has moved a significant step closer toward acquiring a major prize: Tribune Publishing, the parent of 9 major metropolitan papers including The Chicago Tribune, The New York Daily News and The Baltimore Sun. (NYT)

The hedge fund has submitted a bid to acquire Tribune Publishing according to a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal is valued at $520 million. (Poynter)

Alden owns 31.6% of shares of Tribune, once briefly known as “Tronc.” (New York Post)

Media Monitoring And Planning Ahead: Men's Journal

Catching up with Men’s Journal. Every article was pandemic or protest related, with a series on men in Minneapolis rebuilding their businesses, building community, training Black youth to gain certifications in outdoor activities like mountain biking paddling, etc. (paid for by Ramsey County) so that Black people might be more comfortable learning from someone who looks like them, and providing food for those in need. Cooking and gathering for social distance, and the usual gear recommendations that Men’s Journal is known for. The Holiday Gift Guides were in this issue, with the usual themes.

For ideas on how to pitch the media, join Tin Shingle to get access to our Media Contact Idea Center, and start a conversation with fellow members in Tin Shingle’s Google Group.

*Remember: print magazines work 3-6 months in advance. In pandemic times, changes to editorial may be squeezed in to reflect a big, huge change. But generally, think a few months out.