CSM Blog

As news publishers across the nation struggle to meet budgetary demands, cutting investigative journalism programs from their repertoire along the way, the launch of ProPublica, announced earlier this month, is being met with great anticipation. Read more...

2007 may well be heralded as the "year that put maps on the map." Free tools for mapping and visualizing have exploded online, and a wide range of amateurs, nonprofits and media outlets are harnessing these new technologies to make public media.Read more...

In an initiative funded by the Ford Foundation, The Center is part of a group of nonprofit organizations with a common goal: to push forward into the future of public media. Here’s what some of our partners are up to this month:
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In an initiative funded by the Ford Foundation, The Center is part of a group of nonprofit organizations with a common goal: to push forward into the future of public media. Here’s what some of our partners are up to this month:

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Longtime public interest advocate Jeffrey Chester, of the Center for Digital Democracy, has written a provocative op-ed in The Nation about Google as the dubious guardian of the public interest in communication. He points to Google's rapid acquisition of other media and communications companies, and its core strategy of developing data-mining into an art that serves advertisers. Read more...