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The Media Reform conference in Memphis, which just ended yesterday, was left leaning. However, if you didn’t know the people’s politics, it looked decidedly like America. People of every age and every ethnic background all in one place, many of whom are making their own media. Get the Right into the mix and this is [...]

Want your school or nonprofit’s own full power radio station. Then act now? This from Common Frequency:

The FCC has indicated that in early 2007 it will open a five-day filing window where non-profits and educational institutions can submit applications to build “full power” non-commercial educational (NCE) FM radio stations.The filing window is a very rare [...]

I am at the second day of the Journalism that Matters conference in Memphis, surrounded by folks who want to save the great traditions of journalism. However, last night it seemed we were all yelling at each too much. Perhaps in a good way because many of us were advancing ideas and trying to defend [...]

I am preparing for a panel discussion in Memphis tomorrow, Thursday, with Geneva Overholser and Chris Peck. The conference is about remaking journalism and Overholser will be talking about her Manifesto for Change, Peck about the Newspaper Next: The Transformation Project and I about my Reinventing Journalism paper.
So what will I say? I am working [...]

A. Adam Glenn writes at both Newassignment.net and at E-Media Tidbits about what citizen journalism advocates can learn from the annual Christmas Bird Count. This from E-Media Tidbits:

This annual citizen science effort…runs for several weeks in early winter. It uses tens of thousands of volunteers to collect widely dispersed data from hundreds of sites around [...]