Fraternal Order
At our recent Media Impact Focus: Assessing the Impact of Media, we introduced Fraternal Order, a brave, new way to apply total information awareness to the thorny task of tracking media impact. Don’t be frightened, it’s not a real service. We hope it reveals, with a bit of dark humor, the challenge of assessing the impact of media […]
Report on Foundation Funding for Media Ignites Crucial Discussion – from the Knight Foundation blog
Steve Waldman was the lead author of “Information Needs of Communities: the Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age. He wrote on the Knight blog about the recently released report by the Foundation Center—and supported by the Knight Foundation—on the growth in foundation funding for media.
Mediacracy—A Dialogue With Experts on the Troubled Intersection of Media and Democracy
Over the last decade, media reformers have been waging a series of high-stakes battles against news consolidation, the balkanization of the internet, and the explosion in political ads, and scored signature victories for local media control and freedom of expression.
To Fix Our Political System, Nonprofits Must Push for More Open Media
No matter how distressing it was to watch the federal government grind to a halt this month, it has been encouraging to hear a growing chorus of foundation and nonprofit leaders call for intensive efforts to fix our broken government.
Bezos and Buffet in the News Industry is Good for Nonprofits
When Jeff Bezos announced last week that he would buy The Washington Post, many people derided the sale price as essentially an act of charity: At $250-million, the price Mr. Bezos paid was a lot higher than the newspaper is actually worth.
Foundations + Public Interest Media Interview
At the studios of Democracy Now! in Manhattan, Philanthropy News Digest spoke with our Executive Director Vincent Stehle about how the media landscape has changed since our organization was founded in 2006
Nonprofit Media Working Group’s report, The IRS and Nonprofit Media: Toward Creating a More Informed Public
The Council on Foundations, with a generous grant from the Knight Foundation, convened the Nonprofit Media Working Group following the Federal Communications Commission’s “Information Needs of Communities” report, authored by journalist and then senior advisor to the FCC, Steve Waldman. In that report,