media

PublicMediaCamp

Categories: conference, media, radio, television
When: 
October 17, 2009 - October 18, 2009
Where: 
Washington, DC
Website: 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2009/08/publicmediacamp_strengthening.html

On the weekend of October 17th at American University’s campus in Washington DC, NPR, PBS and the AU Center for Social Media will co-host a two-day event that we hope will serve as the kickoff for similar community collaboration events around the country. PublicMediaCamp is going to be organized as an unconference - an event without a rigid, top-down programmatic structure, with the sessions organized by the participants themselves.

Allied Media Conference

Categories: conference, media, participatory media, social justice
When: 
July 16, 2009 - July 19, 2009
Where: 
Detroit, MI
Website: 
http://www.alliedmediaconference.org/

The 11th annual Allied Media Conference will be held July 16-19, 2009 in the McGregor Conference Center on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit.

No comments July 2, 2009 - 8:50am by Ben Sheldon

Voices that must be heard: Our media, our lives

Categories: black journalism, editorial, media, voice

Voices That Must Be Heard, the journal of the New York Community Media Alliance, has a great editorial on the state of Black Journalism. Drawing a line from Freedom’s Journal—the first African American owned and operated newspaper in the United States (1827-1829)—“We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” the editorial lays it out:

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