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 and editor, whose worked has appeared in AlterNet, Politico, The American Prospect, and other publications. Her environmental writing has covered topics like natural gas drilling and longwall coal mining. As a staff writer for the Center for Public Integrity, she also reported on money and politics, subprime mortages, and homeland security.
Catherine Traywick writes about immigration in the Weekly Diaspora. Catherine is an Arizona-based journalist who covers issues ranging from gender equality and race relations to immigration and reproductive health. She has written for Ms. Magazine, Hyphen Magazine, and several regional publications. Prior to joining The Media Consortium, she spent several months studying organizing tactics among prominent pro-immigration groups in Phoenix, followed by two months studying the social impacts of U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in the Philippines.
