Posted in Uncategorized, election, impact, infrastructure, progressive media on Jun 12th, 2008
So I’ve been a little slow on the blogging the last week and a half and that’s for a couple reasons.
1) I have carpal tunnel and tendonitis in my left wrist. Very painful and hard to type.
2) Jess and I were prepping for a presentation at the academic National Conference for Media Reform pre-conference [...]
Posted in humor, impact, progressive media on Jun 3rd, 2008
Jon Stewart had a biting and funny “report” on the DNC committee rules meeting that decided on how to divvy up the Michigan and Florida delegate count. But to make it even better, Stewart videochecked progressive blog favorite, firedoglake.com. Check it out, it’s about 4:30 in. (Hint-it’s a wacky lady.)
Posted in Book, impact, progressive media on May 19th, 2008
So, yes, for some reason I’ve been on an MSNBC kick lately–or maybe because that’s where some of the most interesting stuff has been happening. But I promise that this will be my last post of the week with MSNBC footage.
But I thought I’d note that Chris Hayes, Washington Editor of [...]
Posted in multiplatform, progressive media on May 13th, 2008
I’m happy to announce that the amazing Laura Flanders debuted her new DAILY show yesterday, Grit TV. You can find it on Free Speech TV (DISH Network ch. 9415) AND watch clips with their new online partner FireDogLake.
I’m super pleased that this show:
a) has a great, progressive host who is an extremely smart journalist (not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, impact, progressive media on Feb 20th, 2008
The 2007 winners of the George Polk awards were announced yesterday, and we were excited to see some of our own. This year, the Polk awards recognized, “journalists in 14 categories for media coverage that exposed corporate and government misfeasance, revealed the industrial roots of environmental catastrophe and uncovered the abuse of vulnerable populations [...]
Posted in business models, multiplatform, progressive media on Feb 7th, 2008
Hmmm. I’ve wondered about this model for a while. Spin Magazine has transferred the print version of its magazine to a digital version on MySpace. But wait. It’s not just read and scroll. It gets cooler.
“Spin Digital. In fact, the digital version is the print edition. Text and photographs are reproduced [...]
Posted in impact, infrastructure, marketing, progressive media on Feb 7th, 2008
I’m looking for tools that will support syndication among The Media Consortium’s members. The goal is to leverage and share current content created by Media Consortium members (text, audio, photos, video, etc..) that builds upon our collective audiences and can reach new audiences. I’m told creating a searchable portal of MC members’ content and [...]
Posted in election, multiplatform, progressive media on Feb 5th, 2008
They started with the Iowa primary and have been going strong since. Brave New Films and The Young Turks are teaming up to bring us their unique brand of election coverage. I caught a bit of their show during the Iowa primary and was impressed not only with the cool technology (streaming video, [...]
Posted in progressive media on Nov 8th, 2007
Maybe the Hollywood writers’ strike is just what progressive media needs to get a foot in the door. According to the L.A. Times, the last strike created an opening for new kinds of programming:
Network officials aren’t talking for the record about their strike plans. But almost everyone agrees that once the supply of new scripted [...]
Posted in progressive media on Jul 25th, 2007
Tracy and I are excited to announce that we recently signed a book contract with The New Press! We’ll be expanding on our previous writings about the progressive media network, and exploring a rising and influential crop of progressive media projects. Watch this space in the coming months for inspiring examples, edgy technological experiments, media [...]