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Public Funding and Documentaries at IDFA

IDFA logoFunds from public broadcasting and other taxpayer funds to promote culture continue to be essential to production of social-issue documentaries, if this year’s crop of docs at The International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) is any guide.Read more...

ONA Bonus: Tips on great visual journalism

ONA11Sometimes your experience of a conference is changed dramatically just by sitting down for lunch in a particular place. At the Online News Association conference, I sat next to McCormick Foundation's Mark Hallett by chance. In the process of breaking bread together, we also traded some of our favorite recent examples of the creative use of visualization to bring insight to journalism. Here were his three faves, all of which I love: Read more...

Open Video Conference: Easier, Cheaper, More Reliable Ways to Make and Share Video

Open Video Conference 2011At the Open Video Conference 2011, developers met artists met academics met lawyers. And everyone wanted to figure out how to build the tools—technical, policy, educational—to foster an open media ecosystem. Read more...

WITNESS: Camera Everywhere

WITNESS report Camera Everywhere

Peter Gabriel, the co-founder of WITNESS defined our time as “the age of transformative technology”. Indeed, new technologies have placed weapons in everyone’s hands, and made human rights movements a party where everyone is invited. With smart phones, social media and Internet, voices can now travel faster than light.Read more...

Return of the 5 Cs

In 2009, CSM published a white paper titled Public Media 2.0, in which we identified a series of 5 trends defining a more open and participatory landscape for producers and outlets. Read more...