Media Team

A wicked team of skilled and creative youth who can build a new media campaign and leverage traditional media to get all eyes towards Copenhagen.  This team has the challenging role of captivating families, politicians and media alike with their creative campaigns, and building relationships with local and national media outlets to cover CYD at COP15 and share our updates with communities across Canada.

One of the major objectives of the media home team will be to become the lifeline between the Copenhagen negotiations and the Canadian public conscious on climate change. What goes on in Copenhagen shouldn’t stay in Copenhagen, and the job of the media home team would be to plug into media within their communities and tap into social media to ensure that the climate change negotiations are the topics of conversation of every Canadian.

What you will be doing as part of the media home team:

• Appearing on radio and TV spots in Canada about the Copenhagen negotiations
• Developing connections with your local campus or community radio stations to help us distribute a daily podcasts.
• Meeting with reporters and editorial boards of newspapers in your area talking to them about the Copenhagen negotiations and what youth would like to see come out of COP15
• Drafting press releases and sending it to your contacts based on information, news and events coming out of Copenhagen
• Contribute to the creation and circulation of CYDaily, a daily multi-media update from the CYD in Copenhagen
• Blog on sites like Its Getting Hot in Here, CYD Copenhagen, and www.youthclimate.org and use Twitter to document your thoughts and the thoughts of Canadian youth on COP15.
• Writing letters to the editor and opinion pieces for your local newspapers, including student newspapers
• Project Survival Media – profile stories about Canadian impacted by the climate crisis.