Stories from the Field

Another Great Story of a Doc Changing Real Lives

[Source: The Hot Blog; November 1, 2009]GATES DONATES $1 MILLION TO EGYPT’S RECYCLERSThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards $1 million to The Spirit of Youth Association, the ...

What I Learned at Public Media Camp: Diversity and the Elusive Reality of Public Media 2.0

By Christian Ugbode, National Black Programming Consortium; October 25, 2009

Art and the Public Purpose: A New Framework for Cultural Policy

This new Framework was developed by the Cultural Policy Working Group created on May 12th, 2009, following a White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, and National Recovery. For more ...

Local Community Radio Act Advances in Congress

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project; October 15, 2009]Bill Moving Swiftly Toward Full House Vote

Show Me the Media Money - But What Should We Do With It?

[Source: Communication, Media, and Development Policy, by Warren Feek; October 5, 2009] So what would you do if you had a big bunch of money (which I do not, I hasten to add) and you were ...

Capturing Controversy: A Look at Activist Filmmaking

[Source: The Independent, by Jericho Parms; October 1, 2009]Two veterans of the field reveal the true nature of activism in film.

For Myth-Busting, Indians Take to the Web

A Montana tribe is using online videos to explain reservation life and counter old misconceptions about federal money, law enforcement, and sovereignty.

Filmmakers Focus Their Lens on Social Entrepreneurs

[Source: VOANews.com, by Sheri Quinn; July 15, 2009]

The Pocantico Declaration: Creating a Nonprofit Investigative News Network

The Pocantico Estate was the site of a summer gathering of jounalists, bloggers, media organizations and non-profits under the title of Building an Investigative News Network. Supported by three ...

A Golden Age for Community News?

This is the second in a series of guest blog posts on the future of news by former staff of the Rocky Mountain News, marking the six-month anniversary since the 150-year-old paper published ...