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News from the Future of Public Media
Ford Foundation Grantees Changing the Face of Public Media
email discuss Posted by Bree Bowman on Nov 30, 2007 at 3:50 PM
As the year comes to a close, the grantees of the Ford Foundation Future of Public Media initiative, an alliance of leading nonprofits, continue to redefine the role of public media by forging new models and practices for the future. Here are some of their latest initiatives:
- PRX launched a new social network site for over 50 youth radio groups participating in its Generation PRX program, bringing the latest digital technology to public radio.
- Native American Public Telecommunications attended NBPC’s New Media Institute (NMI), where they produced a project on the diverse background of the delta region. The project, produced by NAPT’s Valerie Red Horse, is featured on the NAPT website and demonstrates the importance of new digital technologies in engaging communities.
- PBS has partnered with the Knight Foundation to launch the Idea Lab blog, a group blog featuring 36 wide-ranging innovators which reinvents community news for the digital age and serves as an experiment in the creation of an innovative web site.
- In partnership with iThentic, ITVS’s Global Mobile project brings short videos by eight international filmmakers—exploring the theme of food—to the Web and mobile devices. The initiative uses new technologies to bring together audiences from around the world on a very universal topic.
- WNYC is launching The Express, a new multi-media, news-driven, public affairs magazine designed to provide access points into NY city communities and perspectives, which uses web 2.0 tools to engage directly with the community and provides opportunities to offer more programming for audiences of color in an urban public radio environment.
- OneWorld.net is using new web 2.0 tools to give people a low-carbon way to take action against global warming and to attend the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali. From Dec. 3-14, they will offer live briefings and give the public the chance to ask questions as events unfold at the conference, via their OneClimate Island on Second Life and their OneClimate website.
- Public Radio Interactive partnered with WNYC, BBC World Service, WGBH and The New York Times to produce “The Billion Dollar President”, the first of a series of specials delivering new forms of multi-media coverage of the upcoming election.
- The Sundance Documentary Film Program launched a new web resource to deliver resources to independent filmmakers for documentary projects. The unique portal uses digital technology to give filmmakers first-hand information from around the world. The website (http://www.sundance.org/docsource) will launch at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Center for Asian American Media has launched a new website at asianamericanmedia.org, which features more dynamic content, including streaming video, blogs, online forum, interactive calendar, interviews with filmmakers.
- Latino Public Broadcasting recently funded 14 new projects through its Open Call program, which provides engaging, high-quality documentary content to the Latino community.
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