Public Media Showcase

Facing the Mortgage Crisis, a multi-platform community outreach project spearheaded by KETC/Channel 9 in St. Louis, has become a model for public broadcasting stations nationwide.Read more...

One of the most intriguing examples of Web 2.0 technology is its use in citizen online crime solving. With the help of online databases, maps and other interactive tools, local news outlets (and police departments) are able to combine investigative reporting and user participation in order to publicize “cold cases” to a degree that would have been unheard of a decade ago, and harness the energy of citizen sleuths.

News organizations run the gamut in how they present cold cases.Read more...

With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, food is on many of our minds this week. Social media platforms have been a boon to foodies, with the proliferation of collective online restaurant reviews, food blogs, and online recipe sharing. Food activists—including food justice and food security advocates, proponents of organic and sustainable agriculture, world hunger activists, public health workers and school lunch reformists—are also all producing and consuming public media 2.0.Read more...

As we’ve noted before, games can be a great way to educate, inform and inspire groups of people to coalesce around particular issues. In the past, we’ve written about some of the great work being done in this area by organizations like Games for Change and ITVS. Below are more examples of games that address topics of environmental sustainability, civic engagement and community building.Read more...

In light of Veterans Day, today we are highlighting three public media projects that honor our veterans.

Until fairly recently, if you wanted to search through thousands of wartime documents, you would most likely have to physically visit Washington, D.C. Certainly, there would be no other way to visit the Vietnam Memorial. Now, Web 2.0 technologies have made both accessible anywhere, and have provided opportunities for users to not just interact with but, in some cases, respond to veterans' stories.Read more...