2406 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224
T 410.675.4024
F 410.675.4024

media justice articles

ZeroDivide BTOP Mash-Up Cut-Up Smash-Up

[Source: ZeroDivide, by Tim Wu, August 23, 2010]
A blog post by ZeroDivide's Tim WuZeroDivide received two federal stimulus funding awards totalling more than $2 million.  We've been interviewed about these awards from Honolulu to Seattle, ...

ZeroDivide Receives Stimulus Funding to Foster New Generation of Technology Adopters in Underserved Youth and Tribal Communities

[Source: ZeroDivide, August 18, 2010]
ZeroDivide was today awarded $2,070,399 in two grants from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Vice-President Joe Biden announced the ...

FCC's Plan for 'Net Neutrality' Rules Falters

[Source: LA Times, by Editorial, August 7, 2010]
The FCC has halted discussions amid reports spread that Google and Verizon will propose their own, less regulatory framework for Net neutrality.

Lots of Internet Competition -- Just Not at Home

[Source: Washington Post, by John Dunbar, August 3, 2010]
Guest post from John Dunbar of American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop. John Dunbar and Cecilia Kang are working together on a project for the next several months looking at ...

48 Members Of Congress Tell FCC To Back Off Broadband Action

[Source: Broadcasting & Cable, by John Eggerton, July 30, 2010]
Reps. Gene Green (D-Tex.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) have introduced a concurrent resolution asking the FCC to hold off on reclassifying broadband or clarifying and expanding network neutrality regs ...

MTV Rated Excellent, CBS Fails in GLAAD's Fourth Annual Network Responsibility Index

[Source: GLADD.org, July 22, 2010]
The CW Leads Broadcast Networks for First Time; CBS Once Again Receives a “Failing” Rating for Lack of Inclusion of the LGBT Community

The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on POVERTY

If your foundation engages in grantmaking related to poverty issues, you won’t want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at http://media.gfem.org/.

What DON'T You Need the Internet For?

[Source: NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network, by Holly Ross, June 25, 2010]
This past April, how did you file your taxes? Did you mail them or e-File? How did you pay your last parking ticket? Find your last job? Watch a funny cat video? I'm betting the answer is the same ...

Highlights from 2010 Media Grantmaking — The State and Future of the Field

audio icon
The 2010 Funder Conversation: Media Grantmaking — The State (and Future) of the FieldPresented by: Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media and the Media Democracy FundHosted by: The Open Society ...