Media Content

A television program or film puts a face on an issue. A radio news feature or documentary brings a tangible reality to recited facts. Video streamed on a website underscores issues presented in plain text and can move people to action. Whether the content is targeted to public or commercial media outlets, funders need a working understanding of the entire media landscape in order to be most effective in their grantmaking.

Ford Foundation Initiative – Fostering Experimentation for Tomorrow’s Public Media

[Source: centerforsocialmedia.org] “The Ford Foundation’s Future of Public Media initiative brings together an alliance of leading nonprofits whose work forges the public media structures and ...

Production for the People by the People

Community News Production Institute reporter Abdulai Bah interviews a disability rights activist in Memphis. "People's Production House is an unusual media organization not only in being led ...

The Communication Initiative Network Re-launches its Website

A global aggregator of media issues, The Communications Initiative Network, has re-launched its website with a strong focus on shared knowledge. The site is a hub of information and networking ...

True Spin Conference, A National Conference on Media Relations for Progressives

Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 11:43pm - Friday, February 1, 2008 - 11:44pm

Denver, CO

"There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America" — Now Online

Three graduate schools of journalism, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and the USC Annenberg School for Communication collaborated to present panels of historians, linguists, cognitive experts, ...

Making Movies that Make Change

Jeff Skoll of the Skoll Foundation and founder of Participant Productions and eBay, talks about making movies that make change at the 2007 TED Conference. Click here to watch.

Showing Movies, Making Change: P.O.V. at 20 Years

by Agnes Varnum (posted to indieWIRE) As film lovers, we tend to remember our significant film moments. One such moment for me was Elizabeth Barret's "Stranger with a Camera." In it, ...

Watch “A Low Power Radio Katrina Story” on Bill Moyers Journal

On a special segment aired August 24, 2007, low-powered FM radio (LPFM) activist Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio Project, journalist Rick Karr and Bill Moyers discuss the current battle to ...

Study Explores Radio as a Mobilization Tool in Latino Communities

The results of a study funded through the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), a grantee of the Ford Foundation, have just been released.San Francisco State University researcher Graciela ...

New Channel Focusing on Philanthropy Announced

The Philanthropy Channel is a national, multimedia public service campaign aimed at the general public, legislators, opinion leaders and the always influential media. It will highlight the often ...