media

The (Actual) Future of the Big Idea

Stevie Converse — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:17:23 -0400

Full article: Nieman Journalism Lab
Megan Garber
The critics are right: Neal Gabler's essay in the <em>New York Times</em> — the one proclaiming the death of the big idea at the hands of Twitter and Facebook and the Internet in general — is wrong. Thought is everywhere; new ideas are springing up every day, and getting tested and tapered and honed; and they are, far from inculcating apathy, inciting revolutions both literal and figurative, around the world and across the Web.

Failure Is Totally an Option: Free Press Launches MediaFAIL Project

Stevie Converse — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:16:33 -0400

Full article: Bitch Magazine
Andi Zeisler
The point of Free Press' online tool, MediaFAIL, isn't to simply chuckle at the crappy coverage, biased reporting, and egregious sexism and racism of so much mainstream media. The aim of the project's is not just give the media a failing grade, but to help improve the media so it will pass..

Free Press Praises Blueprint for Repairing Broken Media

Moira Vahey — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:18:44 -0400

WASHINGTON -- Free Press welcomes the release of Informing Communities, a new report by the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. The report examines the challenges facing media and journalism, the information needs of local communities, and it presents a vision for the future of journalism and the media.

Public Interest and Civil Rights Groups Speak Out Against Unfounded Attacks on Mark Lloyd

Moira Vahey — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:35:47 -0400

WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, more than 50 civil rights, public interest and grassroots organizations sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and congressional leaders supporting Mark Lloyd, the associate general counsel and chief diversity officer of the FCC, and the agency's longstanding mission to promote localism, diversity and competition in the media.

'Voices of Justice' Film & Latino Media Panel

Jordan Berg — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:39:22 -0400

Start: 04/15/2009 - 17:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The public is invited to a reception, documentary film preview of "Voices of Justice" and panel discussion at Stanford University on Wed. April 15 about the challenges and opportunities for Spanish-language media in an era of transformational change in journalism and the nation.

Obama Makes Four Justice Department Appointments

Stevie Converse — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:02:14 -0500

Full article: Broadcasting & Cable
John Eggerton
President-elect Barack Obama has made four Justice Department appointments, including veterans of media and new media law practice and a bunch of familiar faces from the Clinton years.

For Media, the Year that Wasn't

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:42:12 -0500

Full article: Fortune
Richard Siklos
It's the back half of December and that can only mean one thing: the annual cavalcade of "top 10" lists for the year. What is especially intriguing this year is to review what wasn't. Here are just a few of the top non-developments of 2008.

Predictions: 9 for '09 in Media

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:37:07 -0500

Full article: CNBC
Julia Boorstin
Media faces a perfect storm in 2009—transitioning to a challenging new digital world and a very weak economy. Here are nine predictions for 2009.

Lifestreaming in Obamaland

Stevie Converse — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:53:06 -0500

Full article: CNet
Dan Farber
Barack Obama will be the most shadowed president in history, and it won't be just the Secret Service and press corps surrounding him. Citizens and paparazzi armed with camera phones and a variety of other multimedia devices will chronicle every movement he makes in public and post it online.

The Screening of America

Stevie Converse — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:23:26 -0500

Full article: New York Times
A.O. Scott
What will happen, in the age of iPod, DVR, VOD, YouTube and BitTorrent, to the experience of moviegoing, to say nothing of the art of cinema?