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.

The Good News and the Bad News in the Stimulus News

[Source: Public Knowledge, by Art Brodsky; July 1, 2009]

New Media Makers: A Toolkit for Innovators in Community Media and Grant Making

This learning module is filled with original reporting that will help you learn about the innovative community news initiatives that are cropping up around the United States - and securing grants ...

A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits’ Journalism

[Source: New York Times, by Richard Perez-Pena; June 15, 2009] Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will ...

Foundations Invest in Watchdog Reporting as Group Considers National Investigative Network

[Source: Poynter Online, by David Westphal; Jun. 29, 2009] There's a new conventional wisdom about foundation-funded journalism: It's going to be bigger than most anyone imagined.How big? Well, ...

Pop!Tech 2009: America Reimagined

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 9:00am - Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 5:00pm

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Broadband Stimulus Resources Page

"Your Grantees, Broadband and the Stimulus: A Unique Opportunity for Philanthropic Investment" A Briefing by GFEM's Media Policy Working Group - June 10, 2009 As part of the American ...

Netsquared 2009 Recap: Making the Virtual Proximal

[Source: Huffington Post, by Allen Gunn of Aspiration - June 4, 2009]As someone who organizes nonprofit technology events for a living, I spend a lot of time reflecting on what role live ...

Rural America Goes Ultra-Digital

Broadband survey suggests consumers in the hinterlands will get top-of-the-line Internet technology -- if operators can get their hands on stimulus money. [Source: Fortune Magazine, by Anu ...

First, Interstate Highways, Now Broadband: The FCC's Report on Bringing Broadband to Rural America

[Source: The Daily Yonder, by Bill Bishop - June 1, 2009] The Federal Communications Commission chair didn't provide a plan for bringing broadband to rural America, but he did point to a ...

Spot.us—Merging The Audience and The Funder

[Source: Center for Social Media, by Micael Bogar - Apr 28, 2009]