Surveyed outlets include Urban Milwaukee, the Twin Cities Daily Planet and the Great Lakes Echo in this J-Lab report.
Category Archives: Backgrounders and Toolkits
Handy Resources
BAVC: Impact Playbook: Best Practices for Understanding the Impact of Media
Some of you that make movies and videos might be interested in this new toolkit on metrics for evaluating the impact of media pieces put out by the Bay Area Video Coalition.
National Broadband Policy for the Twenty-First Century: Thoughts from the Grassroots
This Media Alliance report is a compilation of several events held in the state of California in 2008 where grassroots groups and members of the community gathered to discuss the the Internet.
Designing for Impact: The Rise of High-Impact Social Justice Documentaries
This report, from the Center for Social Media at American University, provides 6 in-depth case studies of the documentary film process and how to evaluate impact.
Pew Study: Word of Mouth Frequent Source of News
While local TV news remains the most popular source for local information in America, adults rely on it primarily for just three subjects — weather, breaking news and to a lesser extent traffic. Continue reading Pew Study: Word of Mouth Frequent Source of News
Digital Inclusion and Data Profiling
This paper from former MA board member Seeta Pena Ganghadjaran focuses on specific examples of commercial data profiling against the history of low–tech data profiling of chronically underserved communities.
Not To Be Trusted
ColorOfChange partnered with Media Matters for America to study how accurately local news stations are covering the role of Black people in crime. The result is an outrageous level of distortion: news stations report that Black people are involved in murder, assault and theft an average of 75% of the time in New York City, which exceeds the actual NYPD arrest rates for those crimes by 24 percentage points.
IP Transition – Phones in the 21st Century
A report from Public Knowledge and the Center for Media Justice on the transformation from legacy phone lines to mobile communications – and the winners and losers in the process.