OUR LETTER WRITING HEROES

Since the Media Awareness Project was started as an email list over a decade and a half ago a major goal has been to empower folks who write letters to the editor in support of drug policy reform.

It is with great pleasure that we announce today that Robert Sharpe is our Letter Writer of the Year for 2010. Robert had 176 letters and three OPEDs published during the year, bringing the total letters published that we know of to 2, 414. He writes to newspapers all over the world from his home. Robert writes as a volunteer for Common Sense for Drug Policy. His published letters often have versions of the title "Policy Analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy, Washington, D.C." and sometimes a link to their website http://www.csdp.org/

You may read his published letters at

http://www.mapinc.org/writers/Robert+Sharpe

Robert has provided his tips for letter writing success on this webpage

http://www.mapinc.org/resource/tips.htm

Links to pages listing many of our letter writing heroes include these:

Our letter writers of the year http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/yearly.php

Our letter writers of the month http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/monthly.php

MAP's published letters silver award (100 LTEs) http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/lte_silver.htm

MAP's published letters gold award (500 LTEs) http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/lte_gold.htm

MAP's published letters platinum award (1000 LTEs) http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/lte_platinum.htm

Our recognition of the best published letter each week http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/weekly.php

MAP's graphic display of the top 100 letter writers http://www.mapinc.org/lte/topwrit.htm

Prepared by: Richard Lake, Focus Alert Specialist www.mapinc.org