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Welcome to the Media Consortium!
The Media Consortium is a network of the country’s leading independent journalism organizations. We support smart, powerful and passionate journalism that redefines American political and cultural debate. The Media Consortium is creating a solid cooperative infrastructure that will serve a 21st-century audience and offer a sustainable future for independent media. Millions of Americans are looking for honest, fair, and accurate journalism-We’re finding new ways to reach them. Our strategy has three focal points: Making Connections, Building Infrastructure, and Amplifying Our Voice.
Making Connections
Through meetings and collaboratively built projects, The Media Consortium enables our members to build relationships, strategize, and constructively work together to reinvent the independent media sphere.
Building Infrastructure
We’re analyzing who reads, watches and listens to our members’ work so that we can reach millions more Americans looking for honest journalism. We’re making joint investments in training, technology-sharing, advertising, promotions and learning how to communicate effectively with one another.
Amplifying Our Voice
It’s time to do together what we can not do alone. The Media Consortium seeks to fulfill the role of media in a democracy. We’re strengthening a vibrant, fact-based community of independent journalism producers that educate, inform and engage citizens to create the world to which we all aspire.
Consortium Report
- Weekly Diaspora: Modified SB 1070 Goes Into Effect; How Federal Law Paved the Way
by Annie Shields, Media Consortium blogger Yesterday, 9th Circuit Judge Susan Bolton struck down many of the most controversial provisions in Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, including the section requiring police to ask anyone they suspect of being undocumented for proof of citizenship. It’s a small... - Weekly Pulse: Skewed Teen Sex Stats Lead to Multiplication
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The American Life League (ALL) has seized upon the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) latest teen sex stats as proof that kids don’t need sex ed after all. The data show that 58 percent of girls and 57 percent of boys between the ages of 15... - Weekly Audit: Why Are Unemployment Benefits A Major Political Fight?
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Congress finally authorized an extension of unemployment benefits on Wednesday, providing a critical lifeline to families across the country and an absolutely essential boost to the economy. But with the jobless rate hovering near 10 percent, minimum measures... - Weekly Mulch: How Reid’s Energy Bill Undermines Senate Climate Efforts
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced a limited energy bill that responds to the oil spill and promotes energy efficiency. Reid’s action is a signal that the Senate will not pass climate legislation before November, although Se...
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Amazon has fired the next shot in the eReader price war. This evening the New York Times broke the news that Amazon will soon offer a new edition of the Kindle eReader, a brand new $139 edition called... - 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating an iOS or Android App - W3i Blog
Find out more about the five mistakes to avoid when creating an iOS or Android application; and how you can learn from others’ mistakes, made in the creation and marketing process, that will save yo... - How publishers are using aggregation, curation platforms
Great posts on tools/strategies to help support publishers in curation and aggregation. Two separate things btw (as noted by previous link). A definite must read. "Curation platforms, which hav... - Aggregators, curators, and indexers: There’s a difference, and it matters » Nieman Journalism Lab
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I think I have to get on tumblr...... - J-Lab | Sunlight Live’s Real-Time Participation Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award | About
Check out these winners, especially Sunlight's coverage of the healthcare summit and ProPublica's citizen reporting project. "Sunlight Live attracted nearly 43,000 viewers, 9,800 liveb... - Media Consortium Pushes Collaboration to Increase Innovation
Katie Kemple/MediaShift, July 16, 2010.... - Guardian Takes Next Step in Open Content Strategy With Blog Plugin
In another groundbreaking move, The Guardian newspaper in Britain has launched a plugin for the popular blog-publishing tool WordPress (see disclosure below) that allows web sites to embed the full te... - Blog Networks Try One More Time to Turn Local Journalism Into Cash
Can building a network of local bloggers help turn online journalism into a money-making proposition? Two new media ventures are hoping that it can, and have partnered with a startup called GrowthSpur... - Mobile Access 2010 | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
Cell phone and wireless laptop internet use have each grown more prevalent over the last year. Nearly half of all adults (47%) go online with a laptop using a Wi-Fi connection or mobile broadband card...
