Media That Matters

The Center was a proud sponsor this June of SILVERDOCS Documentary Film Festival and Conference in Silver Spring, MD. The Center welcomed guests at a reception, sponsored a conference panel, and released a new report, The New Deal. Attendees at Silverdocs included doc filmmakers and fans, members of a strategic communications institute held by American University and OneWorld US, and many industry types. Read more...

A film festival is usually characterized by screenings, Q&A with filmmakers, parties and with luck, a few business deals. HotDocs, Toronto’s documentary festival and its accompanying Toronto Documentary Forum for project funding, is all of those things—and now more.

HotDocs launched a new program this year called Docs In Schools. Read more...

A film festival is usually characterized by screenings, Q&A with filmmakers, parties and with luck, a few business deals. HotDocs, Toronto’s documentary festival and its accompanying Toronto Documentary Forum for project funding, is all of those things—and now more.Read more...

A few weeks back at the Beyond Broadcast Conference, amongst various conversations regarding IP and DRM, I told Pat Aufderheide I'd contribute to this fledgling blog when I attended the Digital IP Summit in Denver (which ended today).

I planned to follow through on my word, but to tell the truth, there wasn't much to report on.Read more...

An audience of roughly 300 public-minded media makers gathered on Harvard University’s Law campus to answer the question of how broadcasters can move beyond broadcast. The objective not being to make traditional radio and television broadcast obsolete, but to build beyond the levels of communication and participation that had been ‘allowed for’ in broadcast formats but that are essential to web-based ones. Read more...