Writing for a Public Audience with Torie Bosch and Andrés Martinez

Writing for a Public Audience with Torie Bosch and Andrés Martinez

Learn how to translate your scholarship for wide audiences and place work in high-impact, public-facing venues. Join us as veteran editors Torie Bosch and Andrés Martinez guide us through all the steps from making a pitch to publication. 

Join us as STAT First Opinion Editor Torie Bosch and Future Tense Editorial Director and Cronkite School professor of practice Andrés Martinez lead a discussion on how to approach public writing for a range of high-impact publications.

Martinez is a former editor on the Los Angeles Times and New York Times opinion pages, and Bosch was the founding editor of Future Tense, ASU’s collaboration with Slate magazine. Together, they will provide an overview of the process, from pitching an idea to a publication and thinking of those all-important “news hooks” to developing effective strategies to translate field-specific humanities interventions into widely read pieces of broad public interest.

Following their public presentation, Bosch and Martinez will lead a private workshop, limited to accepted applicants with a pitch in progress. Apply here.

Speakers:

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. She was previously the editor of Future Tense, a collaboration between Slate magazine, Arizona State University, and New America that covers the intersection of technology, policy, and society. She also founded State of Mind, a Slate-ASU partnership dedicated to mental health, and was a lecturer and editor in residence at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She is the editor of "You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World." She is a graduate of Penn State University and lives outside of Philadelphia.

Andrés Martinez is a Special Advisor to Arizona State University President Michael Crow, a professor of practice in the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a Global Sport Scholar at the Global Sport Institute, and the Editorial Director of Future Tense, a Washington, D.C.-based ideas journalism partnership between ASU, Slate magazine, and New America. Martinez is focused on building media and research partnerships for ASU in both Mexico and Washington. He writes and speaks often on the future of technology, media, sport, and the US-Mexico relationship. He is currently working on a book project focused on sport and globalization. Martinez teaches courses on ideas journalism, opinion writing, and the business and politics of sport. He is a columnist for Mexico City's Reforma newspaper.