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Nonprofit Technology Conference 2012

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:22:52 -0500

Start: 04/03/2012 - 00:00

End: 04/05/2012 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

This three-day gathering brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. With a wide mix of social events, seminars, trainings, and resources, the 2012 NTC will help you put technology to work to further your cause.

KCOY, KKFX Lays Off Employees

Stevie Converse — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:01:45 -0500

Full article: Santa Maria Times
Brian Bullock
In a corporate move to reorganize its Central Coast television stations, Cowles California Media Company on Wednesday laid off approximately a dozen employees from its two Santa Maria stations. The action will take effect Jan. 13, and move the anchor desk of local evening news at both KCOY and KKFX to the company's KION headquarters in Salinas.

L.A. Media Reform Summit 2012

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:17:48 -0500

Start: 03/03/2012 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

The L.A. Media Reform Summit focuses on holding news outlets accountable to the public interest and encouraging community members to create their own media and be critical consumers of mass media.

Digital Media and Learning Conference

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:10:47 -0500

Start: 03/01/2012 - 00:00

End: 03/03/2012 - 12:10

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine.

News Corp. Protesters Issue List of Grievances

Stevie Converse — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:31:35 -0400

Full article: SavetheNews.org
Timothy Karr
A coalition of concerned citizens, labor organizations, advocacy groups and OccupyLA protesters will demonstrate outside News Corporation's annual shareholders' meeting on Oct. 21. Under Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. has accumulated toxic levels of media power -- including cable channels, news networks, newspapers, television stations, movie studios and more. News Corp. leverages its news and entertainment empire to bully regulators, elect compliant politicians, gain regulatory favors and undermine the public interest.

Free Press Changes the Channel at Bioneers

Mary Alice Crim — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:39:44 -0400

This year I celebrated Halloween early. Wearing cardboard-television costumes, two fellow Free Press staffers and I traveled to northern California to attend the Bioneers Conference, which focuses on ways to create a more sustainable world.

News for All the People Book Tour Launch

Mary Alice Crim — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:29:28 -0400

Here at Free Press we're celebrating the release of our colleague Joseph Torres' new book, News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media. This October the authors are taking their book on the road on a national tour that includes stops in New York, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Washington, D.C.

News for All the People Book Tour: San Diego Event

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:13:01 -0400

Start: 10/24/2011 - 17:30

End: 10/24/2011 - 20:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Authors Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres will discuss News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.

News for All the People Book Tour: Annenberg Event

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:56:04 -0400

Start: 10/24/2011 - 11:00

End: 10/24/2011 - 13:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Authors Juan González and Joseph Torres will discuss News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.

News for All the People Book Tour: Northridge Event

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:50:11 -0400

Start: 10/24/2011 - 08:00

End: 10/24/2011 - 09:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Authors Juan González and Joseph Torres will discuss News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.