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Stories from the Field

New Study: Media, Race and Obama's First Year

[Source: Journalism.org, July 26, 2010]
A Study of African Americans in U.S. News CoverageContacts: Amy Mitchell, PEJ Deputy Director, 202-419-3650The fallout from the firing of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod and the ...

MTV Rated Excellent, CBS Fails in GLAAD's Fourth Annual Network Responsibility Index

[Source: GLADD.org, July 22, 2010]
The CW Leads Broadcast Networks for First Time; CBS Once Again Receives a “Failing” Rating for Lack of Inclusion of the LGBT Community

Grantcraft Offers New Guide "Working with Government"

[Source: Grantcraft.org, July 22, 2010]
Are grantmakers pursuing partnerships with government more than in the recent past? Government's resources matched with philanthropy's flexibility with funds can make a persuasive case for ...

The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on POVERTY

If your foundation engages in grantmaking related to poverty issues, you won’t want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at http://media.gfem.org/.

Changing the World through Gaming – ICED as a Case Study

[Source: by Mallika Dutt, President & CEO, Breakthrough, July 15, 2010]
Video games will change the world.

Hacking the Policy Space

[Source: CultureWork, by Helen De Michiel]
I am sitting with a group of public media and community arts leaders at a recent lunch meeting hosted by Charles Benton, CEO of The Benton Foundation. We are here for the annual media reform ...

Highlights from 2010 Media Grantmaking — The State and Future of the Field

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The 2010 Funder Conversation: Media Grantmaking — The State (and Future) of the FieldPresented by: Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media and the Media Democracy FundHosted by: The Open Society ...

New Media Caucus Panels and Events at the CAA Conference, Chicago, 2010

[Source: NMC Media-N, June 17, 2010]
From PhD’s to the Poles to Live Cinema – at this year’s CAA conference the New Media Caucus excelled itself once again in representing both the diversity and depth of new media research and ...

The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on LGBTQ COMMUNITIES

If your foundation supports LGBTQ issues, you won’t want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at media.gfem.org.Breaking Free

TV Gives Dance a Boost, and That’s Good, Right?

[Source: The New York Times, by Stacy Kranitz, June 7, 2010]
In the 1990s the British producer Nigel Lythgoe confronted an unanticipated and unsettling side effect to the popularity of his television series “Gladiators”: children were emulating the show’s ...