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.

Fair Use Isn’t Much Good If You Can’t Afford It

[Source: GigaOm, by Mathew Ingram, June 24, 2011]
All around us, the web is enabling an explosion of “remix culture,” in which bits and pieces of text, images and video are cut and spliced to create new forms of art.

The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism (Executive Summary)

[Source: Columbia Journalism Review, by Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves, May 10, 2011]
To download the complete version of "The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism," a new report on digital news economics from the Columbia University Graduate School ...

The Merger of Journalists and Government Officials

[Source: Salon.com, by Glenn Greenwald, December 28, 2010]
The video of the CNN debate I did last night about WikiLeaks with former Bush Homeland Security Adviser (and CNN contributor) Fran Townsend and CNN anchor Jessica Yellin ...

ANNOUNCING...THE WINNERS!

[Source: Third Coast International Audio Festival, October 30, 2010]
The winners of the 2010 Third Coast International Audio Festival / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition are announced.

The State of Funding in Information and Media Among Community and Place-based Foundations

This is a report on foundation-funded media by FSG Social Impact Advisors and updated October 18, 2010. It was supported by and produced in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Taking the Public Out of Public TV: PBS fare differs little from commercial TV

[Source: FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, October 19, 2010]
A multi-part FAIR exposé of PBS's most prominent news and public affairs programs demonstrates that public television is failing to live up to its mission to provide an alternative to commercial ...

Video for Wikipedia and the Open Web: A Guide to Best Practices for Cultural Institutions (1.0)

[Source: Intelligent Television/ Open Video Alliance, by Peter B. Kaufman, October 13, 2010]
The Open Video Alliance and iCommons, with support from the Ford Foundation, commissioned Intelligent Television to begin to provide a practical and theoretical framework for cultural and ...

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New Report by CIMA -- U.S. Universities and Media Development

[Source: Center for International Media Assistance, by Anne Nelson, August 26, 2010]
CIMA, the Center for International Media Assistance, is pleased to release a new report, U.S. Universities and Media Development. The report is written by Anne Nelson, a veteran journalist and ...

Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier

[Source: Carnegie.org, August 2, 2010]
A Way Forward: Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier, a report of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, assesses the road ahead in which entrepreneurial ...

NPR Amps Up

[Source: Columbia Journalism Review, by Jill Drew, April 1, 2010]
Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?