Stories from the Field

PUMA.Creative Impact Award Launched at Sundance Film Festival 2011

[Source: Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, January 21, 2011]
Queen Noor of Jordan and Documentary Director Morgan Spurlock Join First JuryToday PUMA.Creative and Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation announced the launch of the PUMA.Creative Impact Award, a major ...

Liberian Radio Station Gives Women the Controls

[Source: Women's eNews, by Juhie Bhatia, January 12, 2011]
A new radio station in Liberia airs national broadcasts about women's interests and needs. It also grooms female journalists, a tall order in a country where 14 years of civil war have left ...

A Call to Arms for the Art House

[Source: eugonline, January 19, 2011]
As the annual Art House Convergence got underway here in Utah, ahead of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, event chair Russ Collins gave a rousing keynote to kick off the proceedings and motivate ...

Justice Department Allows Comcast-NBCU Joint Venture to Proceed with Conditions

[Source: U.S. Department of Justice, January 18, 2011]
Companies Agree to License Programming to Online Distributors and Comply with Anti-Retaliation Provisions and Open Internet Requirements 

The Great Mashup of 2011

[Source: The New York Times, by David Carr, January 2, 2011]
For years, those of us who toiled in the backwater of media reporting — covering people who cover other people — were left to trace the slow-motion decline of mainstream media and the ...

African Campaign Against Impunity

[Source: Skylight Pictures, December 23, 2010]
Skylight Pictures is in the midst of a multiyear outreach campaign in Africa using The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court, focused on educating and raising awareness about ...

Senate Joins House in Passing the Local Community Radio Act

Thousands of community groups rejoice at new opportunity for locally owned media WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today a bill to expand community radio nationwide – the Local Community Radio Act – passed the ...

Spotlight on Education

[Source: GFEM Media Database, December 15, 2010]
If your foundation engages in grantmaking related to education, you won't want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at http://media.gfem.org/.

Helen De Michiel on New Nodes for Digital Futures, Part One

[Source: Open Spaces, by Patricia Zimmermann, December 4, 2010]
Blog written by Patricia Zimmerman, professor of cinema, photography and media arts at Ithaca College and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.Meet Helen DeMichiel

Video Streaming Comes to the Fore as Delivery Mode

[Source: Wired, by Tim Carmody, November 22, 2010]
Netflix finally pulled the trigger: U.S. customers can now switch over to an $8-per-month unlimited-streaming plan and leave those red envelopes behind once and for all. If the dollar a month ...