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.

Obama to Pioneer Web Outreach as President

[Source: Associated Press] Transition officials call it Obama 2.0 — an ambitious effort to transform the president-elect's vast Web operation and database of supporters into a modern new tool to ...

Digital Infrastructure and Public Interest

[Source: Grantmakers in the Arts Reader: Volume 19, No. 3, Fall 2008] ...

Google presents: Open Airwaves, Open Networks

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 10:00am

Googleplex, Mountain View, CA

Report Urges Foundations to Make More Use of Web 2.0 and other New Media

The Changing Newsroom

[Source: Journalism.org]

Robert Townsend and Global Nonprofit Launch Public-Purpose Multimedia Studio

[Source: Reuters.com]

New Knight Initiative Seeks to Address Local Information Needs Engaging Community Foundations

$24 Million, Five-Year Project Spurs Innovation through Challenge GrantsMIAMI (June 23, 2008) – A $24 million initiative by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will engage community ...

Foundations Supporting New Distribution Systems for Film & Video

Several Web portals designed to provide media makers with outlets to audiences and audiences with quality content have recently launched:

CTCNet's 2008 Community Technology Conference "Toward a Connected Future"

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 12:00am - Friday, November 14, 2008 - 12:00am

Los Angeles, CA

Will Community Foundations Fund Local Journalism?

Leonard Witt of Public Journalism Network (PJNet.org) spoke with Knight Foundation Journalism Program VP Eric Newton and asked him about the role community foundations could play ...