New Citizen Journalism Project to Launch at NCTV

Published December 17, 2011 Community Media in Transition Leave a Comment
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Exciting news from Northampton Community Television via Northampton Media:

“Al Williams, director of Northampton Community Television, plans on putting dozens of flip cameras — that is, cheap, easy-to-use video recorders — into the hands of ordinary people next year, and teaching them the basic arts of citizen journalism and storytelling.

The citizen journalism project is just one of the goals set by NCTV, the city’s community access television station, for 2012. (View NCTV’s annual report here.)

Williams spoke Wednesday night at an annual performance review of NCTV and Comcast Cable, held by the city’s three-member Cable Advisory Board.

NCTV is an independent non-profit with its own board of directors. According to the terms of a ten-year contract between Comcast and the city, the station receives a percentage of Comcast’s revenues generated from its Northampton cable customers. Last year NCTV received close to $180,000 from Comcast.”

Community Foundations Support Public Access TV

Published September 21, 2011 Community Media in Transition Leave a Comment

Continuing the trend in community foundation support for community media, the Knight Foundation announced yesterday $2.26 million in matching grants for news and information projects.  The 2011 Knight Community Information Challenge Winners winners are listed at the Knight Blog. One of the recipient’s include Long Beach Community Foundation to support the following project, entitled “Rethinking Public Broadcasting in Long Beach”

Summary: In returning public access television to Long Beach, this project will create hyper-local, multilingual programming on a variety of platforms. Programming, some contributed by residents reporting from a network of neighborhood studios, will be presented in English, Khmer and Spanish. A nightly program will showcase professional and citizen-created content, aiming to get more people engaged in local issues. In addition, an outreach and training program will encourage people of all ethnicities and age groups to participate.”

Commissioner Copps on Community Media and News Literacy

Published September 7, 2011 Community Media , Media Literacy , PEGTV Leave a Comment

In his remarks at the New Literacy Project‘s DC Kickoff at the E. L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington yesterday, FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps explained why youth and adults need “news literacy, digital literacy and media literacy” and described how “community media centers, libraries and PEG centers” can play an important role in supporting this work.

The Commissioner’s full comments are available for download via the FCC here (PDF).

BTOP and PEG Access TV

Published August 25, 2011 Broadband Policy , BTOP , Community Media , Public Access TV 2 Comments

I am developing a pilot study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to examine what role Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access television stations are playing in the NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

The purpose of the study is to understand how PEG access centers support sustainable broadband adoption through the use of public computing centers, digital and media literacy training, and other critical community services. This topic is also the focus of my dissertation.

I’ve created a Google Doc to begin compiling this list of PEG Access centers. Please feel free to add your center to the document.

If your PEG access center is involved – either directly or indirectly – in a BTOP project in your state, I hope you will consider contacting me at crhines (AT) illinois (DOT) edu. Please also consider leaving a comment below and I will look forward to following up with you.

Thank you for your time.

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