Today I am writing this from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, where I’m waiting to catch a plane to Long Island. I’m flying out to NY to be a panelist at Fair Media Council’s Connection Day. I’m part of the morning session called How To Develop Relationships With the Media, and an afternoon workshop called Speed Pitching, which gives people a chance to learn techiques to effectively pitch stories to the media and get coverage.

Fair Media Council has spent the last 30 years fighting for quality coverage of news. Their focus is both on accuracy in media and coverage of actual news stories as opposed to non-events, fluff and “issues” that distract people from real problems. It’s an organization I’ve been aware of for some time as a columnist for LongIslandExchange.com, but this will be my first participation in an FMC event. It should be a great time, I look forward to filing a report from Connection Day!

Connection Day is held at the Long Island Hilton in Huntington and runs from 8-4PM tomorrow, October 16th.  If you’d like to attend, the Hilton is at 598 Broad Hollow Road, Melville, New York and Connection Day is in the ballroom.