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• Maria Finitzo and “Five Girls”
• Fair Use, Free Speech and Contract Clearance
• Fair Use, Licensing, and Intellectual Property Rights
• Fair Use at Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference
• WIFV Wednesday One: Getting the Right Rights
• Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands
• Public Media Roundtable
• Many to Many
• Paul Fusco
• Panel: Copyright, the Constitution, and the Crisis in Historical Documentary Film
• Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
• The Free Expression Policy Project
• Free Press Media Reform Network
• The Benton Foundation
• The Media Access Project
• The Future of Music Coalition
• The Center for Digital Democracy
• Public Knowledge
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Center for Arts and Culture: Cultural Commons
• Cultural Policy & the Arts
• New York Foundation for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Without A Box
• One World TV
• Freespeech.org
• MediaRights
• Active Voice
• National Center for Outreach
• National Video Resources
• Roundtable Media
• Using Video to Create Social Change
• Web Lab
• Steps for the Future (Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects)
• P.O.V. Beyond Borders
• War Beyond The Box
• MediaRights: Media That Matters Film Festival
• The Center for Digital Storytelling
• DVRepublic.com
• DigitalDocumentary.org
• Third World Majority
• YouthNoise.org
• Media as a Social Tool: Conference Report
• Free Culture, Phase 2
• Public Broadcasting Service
• National Public Radio
• Public Radio International
• Independent Television Service
• Local Voices Local Media
• Prometheus Radio Project
• Indymedia.org
• DocuSeek
• Webactive
• MediaRights
• Free Speech Network
• The National Radio Project
• The Public Media Caucus
• The Bill of Media Rights Campaign
• LinkTV
• OneWorld
• National Minority Consortia
• “Yes, You Can!”—Where You Don’t Even Need ‘Fair Use’
• Fair Use: An Essential Feature of Copyright
• How to Find Out What is in the Public Domain
• War Beyond the Box
• TeenSites.com: A Field Guide to the New Digital Landscape
• “Comedies of Fair Use”
• What’s Public about Public Media?
• The Kojo Nnamdi Show - PBS ombudsman Michael Getler and NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin
• Public Television Affinity Group Coalition
• Public Broadcasting in the USA
• Fear, Loathing and and the Promise of Public Insight Journalism
• In the “Global Village,” Where is “The Public Square”?
• What makes pubcasting ‘public’ is engagement
• Insights for the Future of Public Media
• Global Voices Summit Notes
• Keynote Address from the We Media Conference
• E.B. White from the New Yorker on non-commercial television
• NPR’s Bill Siemering “National Public Radio Purposes”
• Public Television Now and Later
• Keepers of the Public Domain in Electronic Media: Keep It Up!
• Public Accountability in Public Media
• Digital Media and the Public Sphere
• Local Public Media Engagements
• Community Technology and Public Discourse
• Socially Engaged Public Access TV Productions
• Public Media and the Smithsonian Controversy
• Socially Engaged Public Access TV Productions
• Surviving or Thriving: Beta Business Models in the New World
• The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s
• Take this Heart: A Coalition Model
• Positive: Life with HIV: When a Film Doesn’t Receive a National PBS Broadcast
• Denver’s Digital IP Summit
• Center Director Submits Testimony on Smithsonian/Showtime Controversy
• Testimony on the Smithsonian Controversy to the House Committee on House Administration 5.25.06
• Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture Rapporteur Report 2006
• Beyond Broadcast Event Website
• Repurposing and Rights: A Non-Profit Summit
• Center Releases New Publication on Digital Distribution in Television
• Center Releases New Publication on Digital Distribution in Television: The New Deal
• Hyperlinked Society Conference Reveals How Linking, RSS Are Changing the Face of Public Media
• Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture
• Power of Media as a Social Tool
• Making Your Documentary Matter 2005 part 1
• SILVERDOCS 2006
• Silverdocs 2006 wrap up
• Media Giraffe Project Conference - Fresh Air for Local News, by Jessica Duda
• Copyright Society - Highlights from June 11-13, 2006 Annual Meeting
• Center fellow Martin Lucas at Alliance for Community Media conference
• Vanderbilt’s Open Web Project
• The WGBH Laboratory
• Wikimania 2006
• Want to know what happened at the Second Annual Wikimania Conference?
• Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture
• Making the Music You Want to Hear
• Part 1 Chicago
• Part 2 Brooklyn
• Part 3 Washington DC
• Watch our latest videos on the latest in web-based and community outreach media
• The Densho Archive: Harnessing the Power of Digital Media
• Read about an innovative, online multimedia archive
• Virginia Film Festival
• Public Radio Exchange
• Panel Discussion - You Call This Journalism? The Emerging Landscape of News
• Nurturing Tomorrow’s Doc Storytellers
• How do we nurture tomorrow’s documentary storytellers? Read to find out!
• The Infinite Mind
• Want to know more about the Infinite Mind?
• Participatory Media Movement Has Deep Roots, by Mimi Pickering, Appalshop
• Panel Discussion: Improving Education Through Youth Media
• Vlogs, iPods and Beyond: Public Media’s Terrifying Opportunities
• Making Your Documentary Matter 2007 Podcast & Discussion Forum
• 21st Century News: Challenges and Opportunities for Public-Minded Media in the New-Media Age
• Notes from Panel Discussion: Improving Education Through Youth Media
• Want to find out what’s happening in your town? Turn to public TV!
• 2007 Making Your Documentary Matter Conference Participant Biographies
• Free Lecture: Semi-Public Spaces and Documentary in France
• Big Dreams, Small Screens: Online Video for Public Knowledge and Action
• A post from our friend & colleague American University Prof. Amy Eisman, Journalism Division, SOC
• Iraq Veterans Memorial as Public Media
• Iraq Veterans Memorial as Public Media
• Freeing the Data in London
• How is public media making a difference in the Arab world?
• Mobilized!
• Mobilized!
• Confused about Public Media? Check out the Center’s new FAQ!
• Confused about Public Media? Check out the Center’s new FAQ!
• Digital Media and Documentary at DocAgora by Neil Sieling
• Public Media Strategies in Entertainment Education- Doe Mayer Podcast
• Public Media Strategies in Entertainment Education- Doe Mayer Podcast
• American Marketing Association conference - Marketing and Public Policy - May 31- June 2nd
• More from MIT5: Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons
• On community, on technology, onBeing
• The Future of Real - Engaging New Audiences
• Filmanthropy - Creative Financing & Maverick Marketing for Documentaries
• DocAgora - The Future of Documentary
• Universities in the Digital Age at the Berkman Conference - Issues of Copyright
• Report from the American Marketing Association’s Marketing and Public Policy Conferen
• New Deal 1.5
• Read the Center’s newest report - New Deal 1.5!
• Alternative video games as public media?? Read more!
• Open Source, A Valiant Public Media Experiment
• Public Radio’s Social Media Experiments: Risk, Opportunity, Challenge
• How are public radio stations using social media tools? Read our new report!
• Mobilized! Rapporteur’s Report, by Martin Lucas
• Filmanthropy: Facilitating Creative and Strategic Partnerships
• YearlyKos 2.0: From partisan media to public?
• 2007 Labor Film Festival - Made in LA
• Worldwide community media, at your local blog
• What will the newsroom of the future look like? Read on!
• Be the first to read it - iPhone Babies
• Be the first to read it - iPhone Babies
• Foreign Correspondence and the Future of Public Media: A Speaker Series
• Foreign Correspondence and the Future of Public Media: A Speaker Series (with Keith B. Richburg)
• Braving the New Frontier - Ford Foundation Public Media Grantees breaking new ground
• Defend your rights to use digital media! Digital Freedom Campaign - FREE CONCERT on Oct. 24
• Google as Big Brother?
• Storymapping, Mapumentary and More
• Storymapping, Mapumentary and More
• Center for Social Media Hosts Speaker Series: Experts Discuss Future of Foreign Correspondence
• ProPublica – A Breath of Fresh Air?
• Ford Foundation Initiative – Fostering Experimentation for Tomorrow’s Public Media
• Crisis management in the Web 2.0 era
• Foreign Correspondence and the Future of Public Media – Challenges in a Digital Era
• The View from the Top: P.O.V. Leaders on the Struggle to Create Truly Public Media
• Celebrating the Storyteller: Center Honors 20 Years of P.O.V.
• One Laptop per Child: a Tool for Truly Public Media
• Washington Post Foreign Editor Keith Richburg on International Journalism in a Digital Age
• A Tale of the Twin Cities
• Participant-Observation and the Future of Public Media
• Online Political Forums – MySpace, or Theirs?
• Online Political Forums – MySpace, or Theirs?
• Ford Foundation Grantees Changing the Face of Public Media
• Writers’ Strike Roundup: We’re not all on the same (web) page
• Mapping Public Media
• Congress reframes reporters—none too soon
• Some thoughts on public media in the new year
• Social Networks: Democratic or Downright Devious?
• Open Source Visual History
• Top Viral Video of the Day?
• Can Nonprofit Funding Save Journalism?
• Super Tuesday: Vote. Record. Blog. Map. Upload. Discuss.
• Welcome to our Revamped Blog!
• Live from the Gaming Panel: Documentary Gaming and more
• “Plight Entertainment”: Engaging Audiences With Difficult Stories
• MYMM Afternoon Panel: Crossing Cultural Boundaries
• Final Word from MYMM: Short Shorts and Hot Platforms
• 24/7 DIY Video Summit: “A Gathering of the Tribes”
• Center for Social Media to Host Beyond Broadcast 2008
• Beyond Broadcast: Maps as Public Media/Mapping Public Media
• This week’s map: of cats and censorship
• Public Media: What, Why and Where?
• This week’s maps: Social Starfish and the Map of Me
• Mapping the primaries, public media style
• Mapping User-Generated Media Part I: Red, Blue and Beyond
• Mapping User-Generated Media Part II: Location, Location, Location
• CSM at ICA: Remapping Public Media Research
• CSM at the NCMR
• Mapping Global News: The end of “foreign” bureaus?
• Mapping the Money in Public Media
• Participatory Public Media: Mapping the Money
• Community Media Hub: Community and Ethnic Media on the Map
• Beyond Broadcast 2008 Rapporteur’s Report
• Beyond Broadcast ‘08 Keynote: Larry Irving
• Keynote remarks from Beyond Broadcast
• Relive Beyond Broadcast with our Multimedia Rapporteur’s Report
• Beyond Broadcast: ripples in the pond
• The “commentocracy” and the public
• NPR API: Open-Sourcing Syndication?
• Are you a public media “game changer”?
• Live from Main Street: Independent outlets band together to hone in on election issues
• Blogosphere Blasts the Bailout Bill
• Open debates: linking copyright and the new public media
• Public broadcasting stations pick up the ball on Torturing Democracy
• Talking Points Memo: from participatory to public media?
• Crowdsourcing poll-watching
• Could “Social Media Innovation Camps” help power ground-up public media?
• What do “white spaces” mean for public media?
• Crowdsourcing the first 100 days
• Inflection point: investing in public media 2.0
• Burma VJ and Citizen Journalism: Pro-am Public Media
• The revival of “mass” media?
• Big shifts for public broadcasting on the horizon?
• Have we reached the social media tipping point?
• An interesting proposal for Obama’s CTO
• What’s wrong with public broadcasting, and glimmers of how to fix it
• Fun watch: Lessig on Colbert
• News innovation: 360 degree inaugural coverage
• What can we learn from the first blog post on White House.gov?
• Social Issue Documentary: The Evolution of Public Engagement
• Social Issue Documentary: The Evolution of Public Engagement
• Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics
• Tune in for Live Coverage of Making Your Media Matter
• Resources for measuring media impact
• Converged public media demands converged funding solutions
• Inspiring testimony on the future of journalism
• National Ethnic Media Expo and Awards
• Stranger than Fiction: Beyond Broadcast, Iran’s elections and international public media 2.0
• Reporting live from the Personal Democracy Forum

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