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 | Turmoil at PBS
by Michael Getler, PBS
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler discusses the uproar over the Bechtel/Schwab-funded documentary: Turmoil and Triumph: The George Schultz Years. |
 | Friends in Trouble: UC Protests
Two long-time MA friends are among the many facing some trouble for participating in the Education Day of Action on March 4th. |
 | Media Alliance Statement on Flashpoints
by Tracy Rosenberg
October 18th, 2009
As longtime advocates in KPFA's struggle a decade ago and the network democratization that followed: here are our thoughts on the appeal put out by Flashpoints after the program was hit hard by budgetary reductions.
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| National Writer's Union Opposes Google Book-Scanning Settlement
The National Writers Union today announced its opposition to the proposed $125 million settlement of a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit brought by writers and publishers against Google because its massive book-scanning project violated their copyrights.
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| Media Alliance's Spot.us Tips
Spot.us is an exciting initiative in community-funded journalism that directly connects journalists with citizens who want to see stories told. |
| What Happened to INN?
The International News Net (INN), a 5-day a week newscast on Free Speech TV, produced for seven years by a largely volunteer progressive news collective, recently canceled production. What happened? |
| Bay Area Toxic Tour
Spot.us is an innovative direct-funding mechanism for independent journalism. Check out the recent story on the Port of Oakland and pollution in East Oakland. |
| Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
by Clay Shirky, Shirky.com
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. |
| The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
by Robert McChesney and John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Communities across America are suffering through a crisis that could leave a dramatically diminished version of democracy in its wake. It is not the economic meltdown, although the crisis is related to the broader day of reckoning that appears to have arrived. The crisis of which we speak involves more than mere economics. Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States. |
| Video of "A Conversation About the Chronicle"
Video of the Society of Professional Journalists event "A Conversation About the Chronicle" at the San Francisco Public Library at: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=460 |
| Hearst Threatens to Close the Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle, a newspaper industry icon, is teetering on the brink of collapse unless it can find a buyer or wring painful concessions from its employee unions. |
| On the Police and Nadra Foster
This is a transcript of a talk by noted civil rights attorney Osha Neumann given on January 22nd at La Pena at a benefit for the volunteer journalist. |
| Resisting the Corporations: Indymedia and the Knight Foundation
A $200,000 grant proposal, submitted by a group of Indymedia volunteers to the Knight News Challenge contest, has been blocked by other IMCs and subsequently dropped due to the abiding ethos that Indymedia is a counter to corporate, money-fixated media entities.
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