Community Foundations Support Public Access TV

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 [...]

Commissioner Copps on Community Media and News Literacy

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 [...]