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Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning Public Media for the 21st Century

Check out this video of Center for Social Media Fellow Ellen Goodman, a professor at Rutgers University School of Law, who's been working on current policy issues related to public media 2.0. She and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange, discuss the role of public media in providing news and information and empowering publics to communicate and organize.

Does the United States have a system of public media that is able to support the kinds of communication essential for democratic functions? What new policies might foster public media 2.0? Find out what they think! (Thanks to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society for allowing us to re-post this.)