I am excited to announce that the second year of NeighborMedia (a New Voices Grantee) is getting started next week. We’re having an orientation at CCTV next Wednesday to welcome this year’s group of up and coming citizen journalists who will be sharing their stories about issues that matter to them and others in [...]

I just learned from Rob McCausland via the Alliance for Community Media listserv that Dee Dee Halleck and Dan Gilmor discussed the question, “Is Public Access TV Still Relevant?” on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC today.
I haven’t had an opportunity to listen to it yet, but since the topic was the subject of [...]

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On Monday, June 16 CCTV is hosting an event featuring the work of the citizen journalists involved in our NeighborMedia program. The first year is coming to a close and we’ll soon be accepting applications from Cambridge residents interested in getting involved in the program for ‘08-’09. More info online here.
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Here’s the announcement from Nicholas Reville at PCF:
“I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of Miro 1.0.
With this launch, we are ready to build a movement for truly open video. We’re on a mission, we have a world-class product, we have an amazing community, and more and more open channels are being published every [...]

Today, David Ardia, Sam Bayard and I launched the first Citizen Media Law Podcast. This new weekly podcast series, produced by the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will cover a range of issues relating to the intersection of citizen media, journalism and the law.
Here’s more from [...]

I just learned from Sam Mayfield (via the ACME listserve) that a group from Public Access Television in Vermont at the Center for Media and Democracy are going to Africa this fall to work with folks at Coastal Television in Cape Coast Ghana. Check out this short video about their trip and help support their [...]

Here’s a quick tip for the Boston Globe: Learn a thing or two from the BBC and provide more context for your online stories.
This is how the Globe currently uses its right webpage columns (from: “Nonprofit takes over local cable station”):
1. “ADVERTISEMENT” = I understand you have to pay the bills, but 1/4 webpage ads [...]

My fellow Emerson grad, Ryan McGrady recently started blogging over at the Center for Citizen Media. Look for his upcoming series on Citizen Media Business Issues. Congrats, Ryan!
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The new ACME website is up! As mentioned earlier, the site was built using Drupal. As a result, there are lots of new features and ways for members and visitors to participate in our coalition’s work:

Browse by Subject: search the website by tags, including Media Education, Advertising and Branding, Youth Media and more [...]