Stories from the Field

Nonprofit Newsroom Wins Pulitzer Prize

[Source: Nonprofit Newswire, by Aaron Lester, April 13, 2010]
ProPublica, an online nonprofit newsroom, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on Monday. They shared the award with the New York Times Magazine for a story by Sheri Fink ...

It's Time for Public Media Makers to Collaborate

[Source: NewPublicMedia.org, by Colin Rhinesmith; April 08, 2010]

The Trifecta that Broke the Internet as We Know It

[Source: SpringBoardMedia, by Brian Newman; April 6, 2010]

Cinereach Winter Cycle 2010 Grants Announced

[Source: Cinereach, by Reva Goldberg, March 24, 2010]
Each year Cinereach grants over $500,000 to well-crafted feature-length films that depict underrepresented perspectives, resonate across international boundaries, and spark dialogue.

Next Step If We Dare: Beta Test For Public Media

[Source: Current.org, by Joaquin Alvarado, March 22, 2010]
Essentials of the public media "stack" (from bottom): connectivity, anchor institutions, access to broadband, content for broadband, community engagement. (Illustration: Nicholson Kenney, ...

John Freeman Speech

NEW ORLEANS, PARTNERS IN PHILANTHROPY KATRINA @ 5MARCH 22-24, 2010Marriott New OrleansGood evening. Thanks for the opportunity to address you today.The discussion on LPFM and its transition ...

Wider Recognition of Innovative “Ushahidi” Project

Ushahidi has been receiving wide attention in the wake of the Haiti and Chile earthquakes as an innovative program for plotting crowd-sourced information during times of crisis. This article in ...

Why Youth Media Projects Should Link Up with Public Media

[Source: MediaShift, by Katie Donnelly; January 21, 2010]"The issues that we tackle in our ﬁlms are very powerful," said youth filmmaker Lenah Perez in a newsletter from the New York-based youth ...

Witness Creates Sophisticated Evaluation Tools for Video Impact

[Source: MediaShift, by Katie Donnelly; March 11, 2010]

A Skeptical View of 'Net Neutrality'

[Source: Editor & Publisher, by Scott Sanders and James Owens; March 12, 2010]