Jessica Clark's Posts

On Friday, the FCC's Future of Media project held an all-day workshop on "Public and Other Noncommercial Media in the Digital Era." Center for Social Media Fellow Ellen Goodman served as one of the day's moderators, quizzing noncommercial media executives and academic experts on new forms of public media, the role of noncommercial outlets in addressing the journalism crisis, and the rise of networked structures for producing, distributing and engaging audiences via public media. Read more...

In mid-April, the Center for Social Media organized the first meeting of its Public Media Working Group (PMWG), comprised of innovative leaders from across the sector with a demonstrated commitment to increasing users' access to and engagement with public media. Read more...

Public history is a practice in which "historians and their various publics collaborate in trying to make the past useful to the public.” It happens in places where academic expertise meets public engagement: museums, archives, and media spaces, and shares many of the tools, concerns and aims of public media production.Read more...

Noted independent reporter and commentator Laura Flanders hosts GRITtv, a daily news, arts and culture show aired on cable, satellite and online. She invited me and Tracy Van Slyke, my coauthor for Beyond the Echo Chamber, onto the show yesterday to discuss the transformation of journalism. We tackled a few interesting questions, including whether the recent layoffs in broadcast news will really matter, and why bloggers continue to focus on the Beltway despite a flood of new grassroots content. Read more...

Over at MediaShift, Katie Donnelly and I explore this question in greater depth:Read more...