{"id":19,"date":"2015-07-03T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-07-03T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T19:22:28","slug":"whowhat-is-community-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/2015\/07\/03\/whowhat-is-community-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\/What is Community Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday morning, May 15<\/p>\n

Host<\/u><\/strong>: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, The Medium Consortium<\/p>\n

Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tracie Powell, ALL DIGITOCRACY<\/p>\n

Juana Ponce de Leon, NYC Council Speaker\u2019s Office, formerly NY Independent Press Association<\/p>\n

Jennifer Preston, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<\/p>\n

Iv\u00e1n Rom\u00e1n, Communications Consultant, formerly NAHJ<\/p>\n

Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, The Media Consortium<\/p>\n

Note takers: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Tracie Powell<\/p>\n

Community Media <\/strong><\/p>\n

====> Foreign language, dailies, radio, web, podcasts, hyperlocal, community and neighborhood newspapers, youth media, black (non-corporate) media<\/p>\n

We got into a long conversation about advocacy and whether journalists do advocacy. Tracie, Juana, and Ivan noted that community journalism is based on the premise that the journalists are advocates for that particular community. We all agreed that what journalists do not do is push for a particular program, candidate, or way of thinking–that that is the realm of activism. We agreed that journalists are<\/u> advocates but are not activists.<\/p>\n

How to support community media?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Peer-to-peer training<\/li>\n
  2. Bring people inside newsrooms that are like theirs (e.g. the audience ethnic publications have), but bigger\/better.<\/li>\n
  3. Develop the audience to support the media<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To connect ethnic\/community\/independent media you need:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. People who travel between worlds<\/li>\n
    2. Institutions to come into the world of a specific paper\/community<\/li>\n
    3. Invest in individuals<\/li>\n
    4. Provide information\/access to community media<\/li>\n
    5. Conference calls<\/li>\n
    6. Connect radio broadcasters together<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Action List<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • Peer-to-peer connections between white independent media and black and foreign language media (Jo Ellen will start this work via TMC)<\/li>\n
      • We need to assess financial health of black and foreign language media<\/li>\n
      • Convene editors from different places to talk deeply about differences in issues<\/li>\n
      • Equip individuals with resources who have feet in both worlds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        NNPA (black press) – They represent black newspapers across the country.<\/p>\n

        Peer-to-peer training resources:<\/p>\n

        Ivan Roman – J students who are bilingual<\/p>\n

        Juana – News literacy for bilingual students to then work with local papers<\/p>\n

        Jo Ellen mentioned Oakland Local example – Train local youth in digital and then have them help community<\/p>\n

        Re-think the way the question is framed: Who is community media?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • The image of independent media is YES! Magazine; it is not the \u201cethnic media.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          • Influencers vs. engagement in community media. Who is community media and how can we strengthen? Allow for groups clustering around certain issues, age of people in the room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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            • Find out where there are similarities to make a difference.\u00a0 Rather than provoke conflict, facilitate introspection. Value both groups as equal partners. For example, why aren\u2019t we talking about how \u201cethnic publications\u201d can help \u201cindependent media?\u201d Is it our (ethnic media\u2019s) role to educate independent media?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Friday morning, May 15 Host: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, The Medium Consortium Participants: Tracie Powell, ALL DIGITOCRACY Juana Ponce de Leon, NYC Council Speaker\u2019s Office, formerly NY Independent Press Association Jennifer Preston, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Iv\u00e1n Rom\u00e1n, Communications Consultant, formerly NAHJ Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, The Media Consortium Note takers: Jo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}