Stories from the Field

Better Coordination Needed to Map Local Media Ecologies

[Source: MediaShift, by Jessica Clark, March 29, 2010]Back in 2008, I co-organized a conference called Beyond Broadcast.  That year's theme was "mapping public media," and was designed to both ...

David Ferriero @ Duke: National Archives, Memory & Digital Documents

[Source: HASTAC, by Whitney Trettien; March 24, 2010]

Time for a Press Award for Crowdsourced Journalism?

[Source: The Guardian: PDA, by Mercedes Bunz; March 29, 2010]

Nonprofits Can’t Possibly Save the News

[Source: Reflections of a Newsosaur, by Alan D. Mutter; March 30, 2010]An amazing number of smart and sophisticated people continue to harbor the fantasy that philanthropic contributions can take ...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Launches New Local Journalism Initiative

[Source: Corporation for Public Broadcasting; March 25, 2010]Regional Collaborations to Counter Decline of Local JournalismDigital Public Media Platform to Support Innovation

Open Video Coming to Wikipedia

[Source: Open Culture, by Peter Kaufman; March 20th, 2010]Wikipedia is now opening the online encyclopedia to video, giving contributors a new way to convey information in a richer way.  And ...

'Frontline' Producer Says Public TV Needs More Partners, Money

[Source: PoynterOnline, by Bill Mitchell; March 25, 2010]"Frontline" executive producer David Fanning says it's time for sweeping change in public broadcasting, beginning with deep partnerships ...

Documentaries at SXSW

[Source: Center for Social Media, by Patricia Aufderheide; Mar 18, 2010]

Has the Drive to Fund "Social Issue" Docs Affected Their Form?

[Source: The Independent, by Randi Cecchine; March 4th, 2010]In surveying more than a year of films and filmmaker interviews, Randi Cecchine decides that yes, funding streams can influence form, ...

Ending the Internet’s Trench Warfare

[Source: New York Times, by Yochai Benkler; March 20, 2010]IMAGINE that for $33 a month you could buy Internet service twice as fast as what you get from Verizon or Comcast, bundled with digital ...