Media Infrastructure

A high-speed, unfettered Internet, community-based media arts organizations, PBS, NPR, Public/Educational/Government (PEG) public access stations, or mobile phones are all a part of our media infrastructure—GFEM provides funders with information to help them in supporting media infrastructure, whether local, national, or international.

A Year Later, Lessons for Media From the Haiti Earthquake Response

[Source: Nieman Journalism Lab, by Michael Morisy, January 11, 2011]
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, as well as the anniversary of one of the largest humanitarian responses to a natural disaster, with almost $3.8 billion ...

Community Broadband Partnerships Demand Creativity (Opinion)

[Source: Public CIO, by Craig Settles, December 15, 2010]
Many communities are at an important crossroad. Maybe yours is one of them. After a year of steady news about broadband stimulus awards and Google’s contest for a 1 gigabit network, there’s ...

Momentum Builds for Reforming Public Media Policy

[Source: Center for Social Media at American Univeristy, by Jessica Clark, November 1, 2010]
Calls to rethink the policies that undergird public media are on the rise, matched by an increase in the pace of innovation by traditional public broadcasters.At the New America Foundation (NAF), ...

Waning Support for College Radio Sets Off a Debate

[Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/busine..., December 5, 2010]
Like many college radio stations across the country, Rice University’s KTRU and Vanderbilt University’s WRVU play a broad swath of music — from undiscovered indie bands and obscure blues acts to ...

If All You Have Is A Hammer: How Useful Is Humanitarian Crowdsourcing?

[Source: MobileActive.org, by Editors, October 20, 2010]

Can You Find Me Now? Refugees United Goes Mobile to Help Reunite Refugees

[Source: MobileActive.org, by Melissa Ulbricht, October 28, 2010]
As part of a pilot project in Uganda, Refugees United is using mobile tools to help connect refugees who have been displaced by war, persecution, and natural disasters. Refugees United is a Danish ...

Now Playing: Night of the Living Tech

[Source: The New York Times, by Steve Lohr, August 21, 2010]
Life in the media and communications terrarium, it seems, is getting increasingly perilous. The predictions of demise are piling up. Phone calls, e-mail, blogs and Facebook, according to digerati ...

Nonprofits Review Technology Failures

[Source: The New York Times, by Stephanie Strom, August 16, 2010]
WASHINGTON — At a gathering last month over drinks and finger food, a specialist at the World Bank related the story of how female weavers in a remote Amazonian region of Guyana had against all ...

Future of Music Coalition Comments in the FCC's Broadband Legal Framework Proceedings

[Source: Future of Music Coalition, July 15, 2010]
Musicians and other creators depend on open internet platforms and access to broadband technologyOn July 15, 2010 Future of Music Coalition filed comments (download below) in the FCC’s Notice of ...

Free Press Releases Report: "New Public Media: A Plan for Action"

[Source: Free Press, by Josh Silver, Candace Clement, Craig Aaron, S. Derek Turner, May 11, 2010]
A new policy paper from Free Press called New Public Media: A Plan for Action presents a series of creative policies and proposes reforms to support quality news reporting in local communities and to build a world-class noncommercial media system in America.