Community Media Workshop
Community Media Summit
Chicago's Media: Big, But Not Diverse
A Report of the Benton Foundation for the Federal Communications Commission Media Ownership Hearing
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Chicago, IL
To inform the FCC’s debate, the Benton Foundation presents this survey of recent research on the state of the media in Chicago, showing that minority and female ownership of broadcast media is already dismally poor; that ownership of the media is already concentrated in too few hands; and that the media has been widely criticized for failing to serve the community adequately.
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Four Part Video Series Now Online
View the four part video series "What is Community Media" shot on location at the Community Media Summit on June 15, 2007 at the Film Row Cinema at Columbia College
Watch The Community Media Summit 2007,
Produced by CAN TV
Presentation by Julia Stasch and response from: Pierre Clark, Chicago Digital Access Alliance; Juan Salgado, Instituto Del Progresso Latino; David Roche, Chicago Public Schools; Moderated by Thom Clark, Community Media Workshop.
Download video at video.google.com
Other Related Resources by Community Media Workshop:
VIDEO Community Media & You: Community WiFi
ARTICLE Newstips: Cable Deregulation Challenged
ARTICLE Newstips: Community Wi-Fi Pushed
Community Media Summit on WBEZ's Chicago Amplified
Listen to special events from the Community Media Workshop on Chicago Amplified, including the Studs Tekerla Awards, Making Media Connections, and this year's Community Media Summit. Below are presentations from keynote speakers Julia Stasch and Richard Somerset Ward.
• Chicago Broadband with Julia Stasch, introduction by Terry Mazany. Listen Now
• What is Community Media? with Richard Somerset-Ward, introduction by Charles Benton. Listen Now
Community Media Summit success
Members of WTTW and Chicago Public Radio advisory boards gathered at their first-ever joint meeting.
To give full justice to the way the new media/tech is changing how we tell stories about our work and our communities this year we held a Community Media Summit, as well. More than 100 turned out from Chicago and across the Midwest for our event, co-sponsored with the Benton Foundation.
One highlight was Julia Stasch’s presentation of a new report “The City That Networks,” whose key recommendations include the idea that Chicago “launch a sustained Campaign for Digital Excellence to become a city that continually takes advantage of digital technologies and opportunities.”
Find the full report on-line at: http://egov.cityofchicago.org/publicwifi.
Find committee chair Julia Stasch’s speech introducing the committee report here: http://www.newstips.org/summit/Digital_Divide_Speech.doc
Find the Benton Foundation’s Community Media Scan, highlighting new modes of storytelling across the country, here:
http://www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/6172
If you made it out any one of the three days, thanks for your participation. If not, look for information on our upcoming workshops soon! We’ll also have highlights of panel discussions from the conference on our Web site in a few weeks.
Ron May (left) of the May Report interviews Charles Benton between sessions at the Community Media Summit.
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