future of media
What's Your Big Idea?
Have a great idea for better media? We want to hear it.
Free Press is excited to announce the call for suggestions for the 2011 National Conference for Media Reform. It's your chance to submit your ideas for sessions, presenters or topics for next year's big event.
Go here to submit a suggested session, speaker or topic.
The conference is a time for thousands of people to gather and work together to change our media system. We want the conference to reflect the broad sweep of media reform — from policy to journalism to social justice to technology and innovation. We need your input to make this our best conference yet.
Free Press, Allies and Citizens Tell FCC to Reshape Media for the Better
Friday marked the public’s last chance to file comments with the Federal Communications Commission’s Future of Media initiative, and people didn’t hold back from telling the agency they want a better media system.
This proceeding represents an ambitious yet critical undertaking by the FCC to examine the news and information needs of communities in light of economic and technological shifts in the media industry. The agency is reviewing media laws that shape everything we see, read and hear, and asked the public to weigh in.
Give The People What They Want
Most people, from local citizens to working journalists, foundations to academics, policy makers and even some publishers, agree that the business model for journalism is broken. The experimentation we are seeing emerge at the local, state and national level is encouraging, but also highlights the fact that commercial media is failing to meet the information needs of communities.
Public Tells FCC How to Shape Our Media Future
The FCC’s call for public comment about the future of the media has opened up a national discourse with citizens submitting a wide range of concerns about our media system. As the May 7th deadline approaches – you can still add your own comments – we examined a handful of the submissions from a diverse spectrum of groups, and identified several broad themes:
Changing News Media Landscape
Staying Optimistic as a Journalism Student
When I walked into my arts reporting class, statistics from the latest "State of the Media" report were written on the whiteboard like an epitaph on a tombstone.
“That’s depressing,” one classmate said in a defeated tone. My professor, Sasha Anawalt, director of the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program and former dance critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, turned around with a grin on her face. The statistics were, in fact, uplifting news. “Wanna know why?” Anawalt asked our confused class.
