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SXSW Documentaries: Finding a Voice

Learning to SeeDocumentaries excel at giving voice to people, causes and perspectives you may never have known or even thought about—but someone has, and is ready to share. They may even have a constituency with them when they show up at festivals. Read more...

SXSW for Good: Obama, Abortion, Harassment, Diversity

Trapped documentaryOn launch of the 30th SXSW Interactive and Film Festival, using media and tech for the public good was front and center.Read more...

Diversity in Independent TV Documentaries: Is Public TV Different?

 

A CMSI audit of documentary series on commercial and public TV has found that the most diverse documentary series on TV are Independent Lens and POV, public TV series. They are more diverse than both commercial series and other public TV series. But commercial TV has plenty of women and minority producers, and is ahead of most public TV shows in key diversity areas.Read more...

Wikipedia at 15: Room to Grow

Andrew LihAt Wikipedia’s annual conference, Andrew Lih’s keynote pointed to exciting new areas of growth, into multimedia (virtual reality!), enriched news, expanded partnerships, less sock puppetry, and a kinder, friendlier way to welcome newcomers.Read more...

Dangerous Docs Stars at #ONA15

At the Online News Association conference in September, an annual gathering of the sharpest minds in journalism today, a panel discussion of “dangerous docs”—documentaries that tell truth to power—drew an overflow crowd.

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