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Surveying Community Media
We’ve got big ideas for what public media should look like in 2010 and beyond. And one of the greatest challenges ahead is to transform the existing model that revolves almost exclusively around public broadcasting stations into something broader and more inclusive that connects the many individuals and institutions across the country that are creating media in the public interest.
Community media – those locally owned radio stations, public access television channels, neighborhood nonprofit Web sites – are an essential resource. To better understand their strengths and needs in our ever changing media environment, Free Press is conducting an informal survey of community media makers. Given the troubling lack of localism and diversity in the mainstream media, community media makers become all the more important.