Resources from Media Learning Seminar

Blogs

2010 Plenary Sessions

Community Information Challenge

2010 Breakout Reports

  1. New models for professional journalism: Explore how journalism professionals are providing community news through non-profit news organizations and other new structures going beyond traditional media of daily newspapers and local broadcasting.
  2. Citizen and volunteer journalism: Learn how community residents are taking journalism into their own hands by starting web sites, blogs and other new forms of digital media.
  3. Universal digital access: building the new public square: Provide access and engage your community members in open debates and discussions around important local issues. Explore how to ensure that all segments of the community are included and comfortable with new tools for community conversations.
  4. Government web sites, libraries and other nonprofit hubs: Develop partnerships with local institutions that already are information providers but simply aren’t engaging enough people to have real impact.
  5. Information as a catalyst for action: Go beyond the information itself to see how and why people and communities engage with it to accomplish things.
  6. Mapping and understanding your community’s media ecosystem: Do you really know what you need to know to start new media projects in your community? Here’s a tour of the many different “media plants and animals” that make up a news ecosystem.
  7. News literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, civic literacy: How improvements in education and training are at the heart of increasing public demand for both excellent journalism and civic engagement.
  8. Broadening your pool of donors and ideas to include the information arena: Using masterful sales tools and techniques learn how to expand your organization’s potential in the information arena.