Many have asked me about the Progressive Women’s Voices program sponsored by the Women’s Media Center, and basically, I can’t sing its praises enough. In the program’s first year, they intensively media trained 33 women (including moi!) who have gone on to earn over 1000 media hits year to date. With the WMC’s stellar training and ongoing help, in 2008, our PWV women wrote Op Eds in the Washington Post and The New York Times, features for Elle and New York magazine, were quoted in USA Today, Forbes, Variety, Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Salon, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, on the Associated Press and Reuters wires, appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, CBS Nightly News, Fox News, ABC News, CNBC, The Tyra Banks Show, PBS’s “To The Contrary,” Bill Moyers, on numerous NPR shows, and in hundreds of other significant media outlets.

And they’ve just posted their 2009 dates and deadlines, so for those of you who are considering this, I say GO FOR IT! The time is now. Here are deets:

2009 PWV Class 1 Schedule:
Dec 15: Application Deadline
February 6-7: First Training in NYC
March 6-7: Second Training in NYC
April 3-4: Third Training in NYC

2009 PWV Class 2 Schedule:
March 10: Application Deadline
April 24-25: First Training in NYC
May 29-30: Second Training in NYC
June 26-27: Third Training in NYC

2009 PWV Class 3 Schedule:
June 1: Application Deadline
July 24-25: First Training in NYC
August 28-29: Second Training in NYC
September 25-26: Third Training in NYC

For much more info, including how to apply, click here. Feel free to tell them you heard it here. And please do pass it on!