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Member News

Meet Sparkwise: A New Tool for Measuring Media Impact

[Source: Sparkwise, April 2, 2012]
The core of BAVC’s mission is about stories. We know stories – and the understanding and social actions that result from the sharing of them – change the world around us.

Community News and Info: Pew Research Expands on Knight Nonprofit News Report

[Source: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, by Elizabeth R. Miller, March 20, 2012]
The newly released 2012 State of the Media report provides an in-depth look at how community news sites are faring.
The report, released by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in ...

GFEM Events

GFEM Annual Funder Conversation: Role of Public Media in Our Democracy

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 6:00pm - Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 6:00pm
Philadelphia, PA

Other Events

F2C: Freedom to Connect 2012

Monday, May 21, 2012 - 12:00am - Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 12:00am
Washington, D.C.

The Next Big Thing in Digital News Innovation

Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Chicago, IL

Funder Webinar: Funding Mobile Strategies for Social Impact

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 10:00am
Conference

Good Pitch New York

Thursday, May 24, 2012
New York, NY

Netroots Nation

Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 12:00am - Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 12:00am
Providence, RI

Personal Democracy Forum

Monday, June 11, 2012 - 12:00am - Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 12:00am
New York, NY

Stories from the Field

The First Amendment Should Protect Everyone's Right to Record

[Source: MediaShift, by Josh Stearns, May 14, 2012]
Since September, police have arrested dozens of journalists and activists around the country for the "crime" of trying to document political protests in public spaces. People using smartphones and ...

Report Offers Comprehensive Review of International Media Development

[Source: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, by Amy Starlight Lawrence, May 7, 2012]
The Center for International Media Assistance recently released the second edition of its Empowering Independent Media report.   The report is one of the most comprehensive reviews of the media ...

GFEM Pictures + Words

This section of the GFEM Web site contains audio and video recordings from GFEM sponsored funder briefings.

Follow-up: Innovations in Giving Funder Conversation

Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media, along with Northern California Grantmakers, ZeroDivide and NTEN, hosted a lively discussion for grantmakers at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in ...

Resources from GIA's Art + Technology Preconference

[Source: October 26, 2011]
Slides and materials from two GFEM sessions at the GIA Technology preconference

Videos and Notes from GFEM's 2011 Funder Conversation at the Paley Center for Media

GFEM Funder Conversation, “Media + Technology Funding Outlook: The State and Future of the Field” 1) Keynote: Steve Waldman; Special Advisor to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Policy

A New FCC: What Should We Expect?

[Source: Benton Foundation, by Michael Copps, May 8, 2012]
At last: a full Federal Communications Commission! After months of seemingly interminable delay (due to a confirmation process highjacked for non-related purposes) a full complement of five ...

Industry Tells Senate: Internet Video Is "Ready Now"

[Source: Public Knowledge, by John Bergmayer, April 24, 2012]
Today's Senate hearing on online video was interesting for a few reasons. The most important of these, to me, was that no one questioned whether the Internet was the future of video. It's apparent ...

Will the Senate Please Ask ISPs to Justify Their Wireless Caps?

[Source: GigaOm, by Stacey Higginbotham, April 23, 2012]
The Senate is investigating video competition during a hearing on Tuesday and public interest groups are using it as an opp

Spectrum Crisis, Hyperbole or Quest for Market Control?

[Source: Benton Foundation, by Kevin Taglang, April 20, 2012]
Fueled in no small part by a Congressional hearing, the need for more spectrum devoted to wireless telecommunications services was a big topic this week. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint say ...

Content

The Coverup Culture of News Corp.

[Source: Columbia Journalism Review, by Ryan Chittum, May 1, 2012]
A damning report from Parliament and Rupert Murdoch’s revealing response to it   When a committee of Parliament condemned Rupert Murdoch Tuesday as “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of ...

Data Journalism, Data Tools, and the Newsroom Stack

[Source: O'Reilly Radar, by Alex Howard, July 5, 2011]
The 2011 Knight News Challenge winners illustrate data's ascendance in media and government.

New York Times, Washington Post, AP Found NewsRight

[Source: The Wrap, by Lucas Shaw, January 5, 2012]
Newspaper organizations are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online.   A project first developed by the Associated ...

Fair Use: What Public Media Makers Are Doing Right and How They Can Do Even Better

[Source: Current.org, by Patricia Aufderheide, December 12, 2011]
Fair use, the right to employ copyrighted material in certain situations without licensing it, is in resurgence after two dismal decades of widespread misinterpretation — and nowhere is the right ...

Infrastructure

Interactive Map Reveals Insights Into Community Broadband Adoption

[Source: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, by Elizabeth R. Miller, March 30, 2012]
A new, interactive map reveals interesting data about broadband adoption rates in communities across the country. The map describes what it calls “the poverty divide:” data illustrates ...

Why Sundance Tells Us Digital Distribution Is the Future

[Source: indieWIRE, by Ted Leonsis, February 1, 2012]
This is a first-person piece from Ted Leonsis, founder and chairman of SnagFilms (and parent company of Indiewire). He asked if he could have the floor to lay out why he believes digital ...

Get Radio! Mapping Project

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project, February 3, 2012]
The map you see here is a project bringing together:

After the Stimulus: Broadband and Economic Development

[Source: Fighting the Next Good Fight, by Craig Settles, October 4, 2011]
One of the big debates that goes on constantly is the one that asks, what’s the real economic development value of broadband? Of special interest to me, of course, is community broadband – ...