Resources

Profiles of Exemplary Work in Arts, Culture and Democracy – Including Media

The Center for Civic Participation’s Arts & Democracy Project has postedtwelve profiles of exemplary work in arts, culture and democracy on theirwebsite, including profiles of:

New Study On Community Media Released

What’s Going on in Community Media is a new report summarizing findings from a nationwide scan of effective and emerging community media practices.

New Portal for Media Research

The Media Research Hub is a new online resource for researchers, advocates, practitioners, and policymakers working for a more democratic and participatory public sphere. Created by the Social ...

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 ...

Council on Foundations Annual Film & Video Festival

GFEM collaborates with the Council on Foundations in The Film & Video Festival. The Festival showcases foundation-funded productions and the strategies by which grantmakers use film, video and ...

FCC to Grant Full Power Radio Non-Commercial Educational Licenses

For the first and perhaps last time in a generation, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will grant full power non-commercial educational (NCE) licenses to eligible nonprofits, where they ...

Radio Station Consolidation Study

WASHINGTON, DC - The rapid consolidation of the commercial radio industry that followed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has led to a loss of localism, less competition, fewer viewpoints and ...

Benton Foundation E-Newsletter

The Benton Foundation is harnessing new technologies to create more diversity, innovation and competition in the media. Central in this mission is an e-newsletter, which helps readers learn ...

Highlights from NCMR

More than 3,500 media reform activists gathered in Memphis for the National Conference for Media Reform, and thousands more participated online. The GFEM-sponsored delegation of 55 grantmakers ...

Social Science Research Council--Small Grants Round

The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce its small grants project for academic-advocacy collaboration in the media and communications field. This project will provide grants of ...