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Advocacy Journalism in the Digital Age

Ted LeonsisWhat does advocacy journalism look like? Panelists at The Newseum's Advocacy Journalism in the Digital Age conference agree that it is traditional journalism, it is advocates creating media, it is crowd-sourced information, it is issue awareness, it is partnerships, it is powerful video and it is so much more. Read more...

Pubcasting Battle: A Slight Reprieve, and a Push for Reform

Over the past few weeks I've been tracking the arguments of public broadcasting advocates fighting efforts in Congress to defund the service. Read more...

Modeling Policy for New Public Service Media Networks

Harvard Journal of Law & TechnologyAn article in the Fall 2010 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology by Center for Social Media Research Fellow and Rutgers Law Professor Ellen Goodman and researcher Anne H. Chen explores new policy structures for networked public media.Read more...

Public Broadcasting Faces Harsh Congressional Challenges

This week, the House Appropriations Committee will consider budget cuts that include proposals to "zero out" funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Industry newspaper Current reports that there are now six bills proposing partial or total defunding of public broadcasting. Read more...

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