Media Wires

Where to find the best independent reporting in one place?

All Media Consortium member content (articles, video, audio) related to the economy, environment, health care and immigration is aggregated on our hub sites: The Audit, The Mulch, The Pulse and The Diaspora. Our bloggers (bios below) sift through this content and provide savvy round-ups of the best/most interesting content generated by Media Consortium members every week. The posts are available to all members, posted throughout the blogosphere and available for any organization or news site to use.

How can you get these headlines on your web site?

Hosting up-to-date headlines from the best independent media on your website is simple: just install one of our TMC widgets. You can place the widgets as an informational resource for your audience and place one on your home page, in the body or footer of an article or in advertising space. For instructions on hosting the widgets on your own site or to learn how to post stories to these widgets, click here.

Please contact Erin Polgreen if you would like to build a customized widget for your site.

Moving these stories to new audiences

We believe that the more people have access to strong, independent reporting, the more we impact the public and political dialogue. From our members’ headlines to blog posts, all of our content is fully integrated with multiple social networking sites, including The Media Consortium’s Facebook page. We’ve also launched Twitter feeds for each blog. For links to our Twitter accounts, check the lower right hand corner of this page.

Media Wire Bloggers

Lindsay Byerstein writes about health care in the Weekly Pulse. She is a freelance investigative journalist and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her reporting has appeared in Salon, Slate, In These Times, AlterNet, RH Reality Check, the New York Press, and Raw Story. Her photojournalism has been published in TIME Magazine.

Lindsay covered the 2008 election for Firedoglake’s Campaign Silo. She received a 2009 Project Censored Real News Award for her reporting on homeland security and civil liberties. In 2007 she delivered the Norman E. Richardson lecture at the University of Gettysburg on journalism and philosophy. She covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 with the help of a grant from the Rappaport Foundation.

She blogs at Majikthise.

 

Zach Carter writes about the economy in the Weekly Audit. He also covers the banking world as a reporter for SNL Financial, where he also writes a progressive opinion column on economics and public policy called The Regulator. His work on bank failures has been featured on CNBC and in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Zach has also written for Mother Jones, Salon, The American Prospect, The Nation Institute, Yes! and AlterNet.

 

Sarah Laskow writes about the environment in the Weekly Mulch. Sarah is a freelance writer living in New York City. As a staff writer for the Center for Public Integrity, she reported on money and politics, the impact of longwall mining, and homeland security. Her work has appeared in Politico, The American Prospect, and other publications.

 

Erin Rosa writes about immigration in the Weekly Diaspora. Erin was born in Spain and grew up in the United States. She is an Associate Editor at Campus Progress. Before working with Campus Progress, she was a scribe for The Colorado Independent, where her reports on federal prisons were honored by the national Newspaper Guild-CWA. While attending Metropolitan State College of Denver to study linguistics Erin’s journalism spurred a variety of government investigations and reforms, not to mention a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado. Her work has been featured in the Columbia Journalism Review, The Huffington Post and on American Forces Radio. Erin loves investigative reporting and finding documents nobody knows about.