New Citizen Journalism Project to Launch at NCTV

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Official Re-Launch of Community Media in Transition

It’s been two and a half years since my last post for this site. It’s time to restart the conversation. Since my last post, I’ve been following transformations within community media organizations, particularly public, educational and government (PEG) access television stations. I’ve been interested in the impact of the Internet on PEG access organizations and [...]

Blogging Update

Since I’ve been busy blogging at work, I’ve decided to move from blogging here to my other site @ colinrhinesmith.com. However, I’m leaving this site up to keep the information, used primarily for my thesis, available online. This site has been a wonderful learning experience for me. Those who left comments helped shape my thinking [...]