Community Media
Knight's mission is to seed and inspire great journalism everywhere, and to build strong communities in the cities and towns where our founders ran newspapers.... Visit website
"If we lose the future now, we’ll never get it back"--Bill Moyers. View two 30 minute videos of the Moyers keynote address along with audio... read more
Sound Partners for Community Health sought to increase public awareness of specific health issues and facilitate citizens' involvement in making decisions affecting health care by... Visit website
The mission of the Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for... Visit website
Roberto Lovato of New America Media sets the tone for this wide-ranging discussion of the immigration rights movement and the media: history, globalization, the blogosphere... Visit website
"If we lose the future now, we’ll never get it back"--Bill Moyers. View two 30 minute videos of the Moyers keynote address along with audio... Visit website
Project SnapshotA partnership between WMPG-FM and the City of Portland Public Health DivisionThousands of refugees from around the world have made homes in Portland, Maine,... read more
From 1975 on, refugees from Vietnam awaited approval to move to the US and other countries. By 1979, there were almost 62,000 Vietnamese in refugee... View video
The Vietnamese Youth Development Center of San Francisco presents fresh perspectives and voices from a community largely ignored by mainstream media. View Quicktime videos on... Visit website
The Our Media Learning Center offers resources for citizen media-makers to create and self-publish audio, video, text, multi-media and images. Visit website
In an environment where a few media moguls control much of the news we hear, Sound Partners for Community Health helped local journalists collaborate with... read more
The Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) provides an online directory of members, training resources, and discussion groups. AIR hosts Radio College, a public radio... Visit website
The National Federation for Community Broadcasters (NFCB) has served non-commercial radio for 30 years. Many reports and training materials are available to the public online.... Visit website
Real Art Ways provides an online audio skills toolkit. Their course syllabus and assignments are published online. Browse original projects from their workshops in the... Visit website
Listen to this story about Low Power Radio Movement by Rick Karr on NPR. The Web page has links to LPFM resources. Visit website
The women of Radio Bilingüe are on a mission to get early cancer detection information to their listeners. VIEW . . . the video Breast... read more
Download this PDF workbook for community organizations that wish to launch their own documentary projects about community-based action for change in the spirit of Indivisible:... Visit website
J-Learning is designed to help jumpstart community media projects with tutorials on Web site creation, HTML, and use of photos, audio, video, animation, surveys and... Visit website
Voices and pictures from Sound Partners projects promote the power of first voice community media. View video
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This report (PDF 3.8MB) offers guidance for community organizations and those who fund social change in how best to harness the power of local media-making for community health improvement. Spanish-language version is now available. Una versión en español de este informe esta en la web.
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