Required Reading: "The Networked Nonprofit"
posted Oct 1, 2009
This marvelous article, published last spring in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, outlines the importance of building capacity within a network of likeminded nonprofits, to tackle social problems that otherwise would be out of reach even to the largest and...
posted Oct 1, 2009
This marvelous article, published last spring in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, outlines the importance of building capacity within a network of likeminded nonprofits, to tackle social problems that otherwise would be out of reach even to the largest and...
Newsdesk.org Receives Major Grant
posted Aug 18, 2009
[Download a PDF of this press release] Newsdesk.org, a program of Independent Arts & Media, has been selected by the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation to receive a $25,000 grant in support of the nonprofit, public-interest news service News...
posted Aug 18, 2009
[Download a PDF of this press release] Newsdesk.org, a program of Independent Arts & Media, has been selected by the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation to receive a $25,000 grant in support of the nonprofit, public-interest news service News...
Persephone Miel: What Should PBS Do?
posted Apr 13, 2009
Talking Public Media: Conversations on Media & Democracy Internews Network's PERSEPHONE MIEL, a recent fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, brings some Internet-era vision for the idea of public media. Rather than look to new nonprofits and new structures, she says...
posted Apr 13, 2009
Talking Public Media: Conversations on Media & Democracy Internews Network's PERSEPHONE MIEL, a recent fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, brings some Internet-era vision for the idea of public media. Rather than look to new nonprofits and new structures, she says...
Talking Public Media: Conversations About Media & Democracy
posted Mar 17, 2009
What, exactly, is "public media" in an era of vanishing newspapers, expanding Internet and wireless networks, empowered publics and an increasingly lively (if chaotic) nonprofit-news sector? Talking Public Media pursues this fluid notion in conversation with diverse journalism practitioners, advocates,...
posted Mar 17, 2009
What, exactly, is "public media" in an era of vanishing newspapers, expanding Internet and wireless networks, empowered publics and an increasingly lively (if chaotic) nonprofit-news sector? Talking Public Media pursues this fluid notion in conversation with diverse journalism practitioners, advocates,...
Ted Glasser: Imagining a National Endowment for Journalism
posted Mar 17, 2009
Talking Public Media: Conversations on Media & Democracy Go big or go home! For its debut edition, Talking Public Media chats with Stanford communication professor TED GLASSER, who brings a fifty-state strategy with his modest proposal for the creation of...
posted Mar 17, 2009
Talking Public Media: Conversations on Media & Democracy Go big or go home! For its debut edition, Talking Public Media chats with Stanford communication professor TED GLASSER, who brings a fifty-state strategy with his modest proposal for the creation of...
3/17: "A Conversation About the San Francisco Chronicle"
posted Mar 16, 2009
[Forwarded from the Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California.] SAN FRANCISCO - Fifteen of Northern California's most distinguished editors, publishers, innovators and academics will meet with the public Tuesday, March 17, for "A Conversation About the Chronicle," a forum presented as...
posted Mar 16, 2009
[Forwarded from the Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California.] SAN FRANCISCO - Fifteen of Northern California's most distinguished editors, publishers, innovators and academics will meet with the public Tuesday, March 17, for "A Conversation About the Chronicle," a forum presented as...
Journalism Innovations II: New Work & Ideas for Making the News
posted Mar 12, 2009
Co-produced by: Updated Apr. 30: Panels | Speaker Bios | Exhibitors | Register May 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. * April 30 (evening reception & panels) McLaren Hall, University of San Francisco * Directions Sliding-Scale...
posted Mar 12, 2009
Co-produced by: Updated Apr. 30: Panels | Speaker Bios | Exhibitors | Register May 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. * April 30 (evening reception & panels) McLaren Hall, University of San Francisco * Directions Sliding-Scale...
SF Chronicle to Close? SPJ-NorCal Responds
posted Feb 27, 2009
[Indy Arts is posting this for informational purposes; please contact the SPJ liaisons below for more details.] Society of Professional Journalists Chapter Calls for Public Discussion of Hearst Corp.'s Threat to Shutter the San Francisco Chronicle Contact: Ricardo Sandoval, 415-786-1258;...
posted Feb 27, 2009
[Indy Arts is posting this for informational purposes; please contact the SPJ liaisons below for more details.] Society of Professional Journalists Chapter Calls for Public Discussion of Hearst Corp.'s Threat to Shutter the San Francisco Chronicle Contact: Ricardo Sandoval, 415-786-1258;...
Noted: Chicago Tribune on NEA Funding
posted Feb 10, 2009
[Note: Here's an excerpt from a Chicago Tribune op-ed for anyone interested in the arts as fundamental to our democratic society.] Why arts funding should be in stimulus By Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, February 9, 2009 In the recent debate...
posted Feb 10, 2009
[Note: Here's an excerpt from a Chicago Tribune op-ed for anyone interested in the arts as fundamental to our democratic society.] Why arts funding should be in stimulus By Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, February 9, 2009 In the recent debate...
Noted: "Arts Leaders Urge Role for Culture in Economic Recovery"
posted Jan 27, 2009
Arts advocates are thrilled by the Yo-Yo Ma-Itzhak Perlman-Anthony McGill performance at the Jan. 20 inauguration, the New York Times reports. This, along with Obama's campaign proposals for affordable artist health care and the creation of an "artist corps" focused...
posted Jan 27, 2009
Arts advocates are thrilled by the Yo-Yo Ma-Itzhak Perlman-Anthony McGill performance at the Jan. 20 inauguration, the New York Times reports. This, along with Obama's campaign proposals for affordable artist health care and the creation of an "artist corps" focused...
Save Public-Access TV in San Francisco
posted Jan 22, 2009
By Zane Blaney, Access San Francisco One of San Francisco's most valuable telecommunications assets, its two public access channels worth $66 million each and its $2 million production facility are scheduled to be substantially defunded on June 30, 2009. This...
posted Jan 22, 2009
By Zane Blaney, Access San Francisco One of San Francisco's most valuable telecommunications assets, its two public access channels worth $66 million each and its $2 million production facility are scheduled to be substantially defunded on June 30, 2009. This...
Newsdesk Editor Joins First Amendment Discussion in Oakland
posted Jan 8, 2009
Newsdesk.org editor and Indy Arts co-founder Josh Wilson will be joining First Amendment expert and attorney Josh Koltun for a discussion of free-speech law and liability in the Internet era this coming Sunday at Diesel Books in Oakland. Check out...
posted Jan 8, 2009
Newsdesk.org editor and Indy Arts co-founder Josh Wilson will be joining First Amendment expert and attorney Josh Koltun for a discussion of free-speech law and liability in the Internet era this coming Sunday at Diesel Books in Oakland. Check out...
The Case for New Public Media
posted Dec 24, 2008
It is a curious thing, in an era of revolutionary change in the media landscape, that journalists and editors have gained so little. The Internet has been a boon for citizen media. It's like Neal Postman's pre-telegraph America, the original...
posted Dec 24, 2008
It is a curious thing, in an era of revolutionary change in the media landscape, that journalists and editors have gained so little. The Internet has been a boon for citizen media. It's like Neal Postman's pre-telegraph America, the original...
Arts, Culture and the Crisis of Democracy
posted Dec 24, 2008
How do the arts help make our democracy come alive? We must first recognize that the arts are among the primary drivers of civic discourse in any society. To think less of the arts in this regard is to ignore...
posted Dec 24, 2008
How do the arts help make our democracy come alive? We must first recognize that the arts are among the primary drivers of civic discourse in any society. To think less of the arts in this regard is to ignore...
Creating a Culture of Democracy
posted Dec 24, 2008
The most profound challenges to building a more just, equitable and healthy society lie in our means and methods of civic dialogue and public participation. Our concern therefore must be the culture of democracy -- which necessarily includes not just...
posted Dec 24, 2008
The most profound challenges to building a more just, equitable and healthy society lie in our means and methods of civic dialogue and public participation. Our concern therefore must be the culture of democracy -- which necessarily includes not just...
Democracy Needs Independent Voices
posted Sep 6, 2008
Democracy is more than political parties, opinion blogs and long lines at the local polling station. Democracy is a conversation, one that's going on all the time -- an exchange of ideas, perspectives, experiences and information about our world and...
posted Sep 6, 2008
Democracy is more than political parties, opinion blogs and long lines at the local polling station. Democracy is a conversation, one that's going on all the time -- an exchange of ideas, perspectives, experiences and information about our world and...
