New from KPFT’s favorite daughter, Renee Feltz…
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We are excited to announced the launching of our investigative-new media masters project, The Business of Detention.
Snapshot: The nation’s largest private prison company has partnered with the federal government to detain close to 1 million undocumented people in the past 5 years until they are deported. In the process, [...]
Just a little something on media justice front.
This Absolut ad has stirred much controversy, to the point where the company, which ran the ad only in Mexico, said it was pulling it from circulation.
As you may notice, the old-school map represents Mexican territories prior to the U.S.-Mexico War, when the United States seized holdings which [...]
This summer, Project Look Sharp is offering its 10th annual Media Literacy Institute. The 5-day intensive workshop includes both the
theory of media literacy and hands-on practice with digital/computer technology (Mac-based).
Project Look Sharp staff coach participants in developing and implementing individual media literacy integration plans intended to be used in their academic environments. This course may [...]
SWAN folks sent this. Check it out!
You Are Cordially Invited To
Put Yourself on the SWAN Day Map!
Are you planning an event for Support Women Artists Now Day?
If so, you can now post that event on the official SWAN Day website at www.SwanDay.org.
You can click on the link to Host an Event or find a place [...]
The Chicago Tribune reports the Federal Communications Commission was told by members of Congress to preserve electronic records for legislators investigating decision-making at the agency.
The request came in a letter from the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which last month said it would look into whether FCC procedures are [...]
A really inspiring story, spotted at infoshop:
Listening to Democracy Now
by Thomas Boothe and Danielle Follett
A small group of activists in the rural northeastern corner of Tennessee in the United States persuaded their local public radio station, WETS, to start broadcasting the progressive news-hour Democracy Now two years ago.
This pocket of Appalachia would seem to be [...]
KPFT is planning its third issue of the VOICE to come out in January to cover activities in the first quarter of 2008. March is Woman’s History Month. In order to celebrate that history, we are asking women programmers, employees, and volunteers to send us a brief statement of your own choosing about [...]
Join Free Press this Thursday night, Dec.6, for a live online discussion about how media consolidation has hurt writers, silenced independent voices, and eroded quality entertainment.
Date: Thursday, Dec. 6 Time: 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT
Location: www.freepress.net/action
Speaker: Marty Kaplan is currently serving as the director of the Norman Lear Center at USC’s Annenberg School [...]
Free Press released Devil in the Details, a report exposing 10 key facts that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is hiding from the public about his recent proposal to lift the longstanding ban on “newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership.”
Using a carefully crafted PR campaign — including an op-ed in the New York Times — Chairman Martin has [...]
On Tuesday, November 20th, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it was ready to pass a set of provisions amending the rules that govern the low power FM radio (LPFM) service — a noncommercial radio service that hundreds of schools, churches, municipalities, and community groups use to connect with their local communities. Below is [...]
From Free Press:
The fourth National Conference on Media Reform is set for June 6-8, 2008 in Minneapolis, Minn. The event will be an exciting, inspiring three-day gathering for people who are concerned about the state of our media and committed to working for change. The conference will convene more than 3,000 activists, educators, media makers, [...]
Bad reviews pile up for FCC chief’s plan
Martin wants to loosen ownership rules and end debate within weeks. Lawmakers, activists and industry object.
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 19, 2007
WASHINGTON — The last time federal regulators tried to change the rules on how many media outlets companies could own, the effort bombed like [...]
The National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC) and the New Mexico Tourism Department, will take the global stage, April 18-20, 2008, launching its inaugural Global Green Indigenous Film Festival. Organizers are seeking film entries for festival, which will be held in conjunction with NTEC’s 15th Environmental Conference April 15-18, 2008.
Formats accepted: DVD, VHS, Beta SP.
Film entries [...]
Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin released proposed rule changes that would gut the longstanding prohibition on owning a daily newspaper and broadcast stations in the same media market.
Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, issued the following statement:
“Chairman Martin’s lofty rhetoric talks about saving American newspapers and ensuring a diversity of voices. But [...]
NAPT, a member of the National Minority Consortia, invites you to submit an application for the NMC Journalism Fellowship, a partnership between the NMC and journalism schools around the country to create fellowships for recent journalism graduates and second year journalism graduate students. The NMC’s goal is to bring a younger and more diverse set [...]
Citadel Classic Rocker KQRS Minneapolis will air an apology for remarks made on Tom Barnard’s morning show last month associating high teen suicide rates in Beltrami County, MN, with “incest” among American Indians on two reservations in the county.
During a September 18 discussion of a Minnesota Health Department report on teen suicide rates, the Bemidji [...]
“We seek engaging and accessibly written essays for a proposed edited collection of close analyses of hip hop music. Tentatively titled, The Hip Hop Jam: Messages and Music, this collection examines hip-hop music from multiple micro-level, up-close perspectives. We seek to help the music and its messages come alive one song at a time.
“Each submitted [...]
I’m not a big comics fan, but many of the issues raised in deftly representing diversity in nontraditional ways fascinate me. As media folk, many of us wrangle with being as inclusive as we can. For people of color, it’s all the more challenging to do so. This small-scale look is interesting nonetheless.
NEW YORK (AP) [...]
NEW workshop audio recordings from the 2007 NYC Grassroots Media
Conference have been posted online. Sessions include:
Engaging Workers Through Media
Solidarity Not Charity: A Youth Media Workshop On Katrina
Listen Up! Youth Debate Concerns over Internet Filters, Social Networking, Sex Ed & Free Expression
Uplifting Community Voices… Responding to Audience Demand: An International Perspective on Violence and Communication
FUREE in [...]
At least to CNN. Via Columbia Journalism Review:
What happened after CNN invited author Jake Halpern to discuss Fame Junkies, his book on America’s deleterious obsession with celebrity? Halpern tells the story in today’s Wall Street Journal:
[I]t was certainly a delightful irony when, upon my arrival, I was told that my segment had been canceled [...]
Urban Unrest is a blog on new and old media, media justice, race, culture, politics and society and is hosted by Ernesto Aguilar, currently program director at Pacifica Radio KPFT in Houston.
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