Stories from the Field

Production for the People by the People

Community News Production Institute reporter Abdulai Bah interviews a disability rights activist in Memphis. "People's Production House is an unusual media organization not only in being led ...

The Communication Initiative Network Re-launches its Website

A global aggregator of media issues, The Communications Initiative Network, has re-launched its website with a strong focus on shared knowledge. The site is a hub of information and networking ...

"There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America" — Now Online

Three graduate schools of journalism, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and the USC Annenberg School for Communication collaborated to present panels of historians, linguists, cognitive experts, ...

Investigative Journalism Goes Non-Profit

A wealthy California couple has pledged $10 million a year to support ProPublica.org, a new, not-for-profit, investigative journalism website. An increasing number of philanthropists and ...

The Nonprofit Road: It’s Paved Not with Gold, but with Good Journalism

The September/October issue of the Columbia Journalism Review features an article by Charles Lewis based on his April 2007 report, "The Growing Importance of Nonprofit Journalism," for ...

Showing Movies, Making Change: P.O.V. at 20 Years

by Agnes Varnum (posted to indieWIRE) As film lovers, we tend to remember our significant film moments. One such moment for me was Elizabeth Barret's "Stranger with a Camera." In it, ...

Media Justice and Communications Rights at the First US Social Forum: Atlanta 2007

by Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the MediaThe first US Social Forum held in Atlanta this summer, was a truly historic event. Many thousands of social justice activists and community organizations from ...

Is there a Role for Distributors in the Internet Age?

There is a myth in the current, collective unconscious about an emerging internet age where virtually all the content in the universe will become available to almost anyone in reach of a browser. ...

HOME IMPROVEMENT: Capacity-Building in the Media Arts

By Helen De MichielCapacity means the ability to accomplish, change, remodel, or act on something that is a necessity, but often invisible because it is part of the operations or architecture of ...