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A high-speed, unfettered Internet, community-based media arts organizations, PBS, NPR, Public/Educational/Government (PEG) public access stations, or mobile phones are all a part of our media infrastructure—GFEM provides funders with information to help them in supporting media infrastructure, whether local, national, or international.

Grantmaking Foundations Using the Internet and New Technologies to Achieve their Missions

Amy Luckey, Senior Analyst at Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., has recent published an article for Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), "Grantmaking 2.0: Using New Technology to Enhance Grantmaker Practices," highlighting four ways foundations can use the social networking capacity of the web. Find her report by clicking here.

Watch “A Low Power Radio Katrina Story” on Bill Moyers Journal

On a special segment aired August 24, 2007, low-powered FM radio (LPFM) activist Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio Project, journalist Rick Karr and Bill Moyers discuss the current battle to protect and bolster low-power FM radio, as well as look at how low-power radio helped to save lives after Hurricane Katrina. To watch the video segment click here.

New Knight Initiative Seeks to Address Local Information Needs Engaging Community Foundations

$24 Million, Five-Year Project Spurs Innovation through Challenge Grants

MIAMI (June 23, 2008) – A $24 million initiative by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will engage community foundations in a grant-making challenge to find creative uses of media and technology to help keep communities informed and their citizens engaged.

Foundations Supporting New Distribution Systems for Film & Video

Several Web portals designed to provide media makers with outlets to audiences and audiences with quality content have recently launched:

CTCNet's 2008 Community Technology Conference "Toward a Connected Future"

Date: November 12 - 14, 2008
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Will Community Foundations Fund Local Journalism?

Leonard Witt of Public Journalism Network (PJNet.org) spoke with Knight Foundation Journalism Program VP Eric Newton and asked him about the role community foundations could play in supporting local journalists.

In this video Eric Newton, Vice President for the Journalism Program at the Knight Foundation, says only 25 percent of community foundations fund journalism, but then talks about why he thinks that number is poised to grow.

PEJ's Annual Report on American Journalism

[Source: PewResearch.org]

Introduction to the Full Report

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