Saturday morning, May 16<\/p>\n
Host<\/strong>: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, The Media Consortium<\/p>\n Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n Chris Faraone, Dig Publishing, Boston<\/p>\n Juana Ponce de Leon, NYC Council Speaker\u2019s Office, formerly NY Independent Press Association<\/p>\n Richard Logan, The David and Reva Logan Foundation<\/p>\n We didn\u2019t take detailed notes because we were too busy taking action steps. However, we did write out ideas on paper, and I will include those images here.<\/em><\/p>\n Background:<\/p>\n On Thursday, when we mapped the landscape of the Independent News Sector, almost every group put independent news outlets at the center. Yet, by Friday morning, we all realized that we really believe community is at the center.<\/p>\n On Thursday, we put \u201cethnic media\u201d on the landscape map. Yet by Friday morning we realized that a key problem with the sector is that foreign language, black and other media by and for people of color is put in silos away from \u201cindependent media,\u201d which mainly is produced by (if not for) white people.<\/p>\n Proposal:<\/strong><\/p>\n One way to break down these silos is to put everyone in the same room. To expand what we did at Pocantico, which would mean a large conference to which ALL independent media are invited.<\/p>\n We envision a conference that would principally invite editors and publishers of foreign language, black, Hispanic, and other outlets by and for people of color along with editors and publishers who belong to The Media Consortium, the Association of Alternative Newspapers, the Investigative News Network, ACM, NFCB, and LION members.<\/p>\n Conference Goal: <\/strong><\/p>\n Open up the landscape, connecting \u201cindependent\u201d and \u201ccommunity\u201d news outlets in order to facilitate disruptive and explosive collaborations that will transform what people believe is news.<\/p>\n Conference Outcomes:<\/strong><\/p>\n -Strengthen the flow of information between different members of the sector<\/p>\n -Create explosive collaborations<\/p>\n -Create a peer-to-peer network for sharing business ideas and failures<\/p>\n -Create concrete ways for community media to expand their voices<\/p>\n -Create concrete ways for community media to step up to another level in their business practices<\/p>\n Funding. <\/strong>To make this conference happen we will need 3 different types of funding:<\/p>\n 1) Funding to Organize the Conference (foundation dollars).<\/strong> This includes travel money so that Jo Ellen and another organizer can visit at least 3-4 communities and speak directly to ethnic outlets about what would inspire them to attend such a conference and get their input on programming.<\/p>\n 2) Funding to Make the Conference Happen (foundation dollars + sponsorships).<\/strong>\u00a0 We will need travel money for community media outlets (including some foreign language and black outlets but also community radio and community media centers) that will probably have to come from foundations. We may need to have space donated for the conference itself. We will seek corporate sponsorships to cover the cost of food, etc. at the conference so that we can keep the actual registration cost low (but we will charge registration fees on a sliding scale).<\/p>\n 3) Funding for Post-Conference Activities, esp Editorial Collaborations (foundation dollars).<\/strong>\u00a0 Too often people \u201ckumbaya\u201d at a conference and then go back to business as usual. To prevent that, we have to have dollars lined up in advance to incentivize these groups to work with each other, including dollars for project management to support these activities.<\/p>\n Timeline and Commitments:<\/strong><\/p>\n May 2015: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Identify hosts for the conference (talk esp to CUNY and NAM) and potential stage 1 funders\u2014Jo Ellen and Juana<\/p>\n June 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grow Committee to represent all stakeholders\u2014Jo Ellen, Juana, Chris<\/p>\n June 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Separately, Jo Ellen to set up quarterly meeting of heads of independent news organizations: June, Sept, Dec, March<\/p>\n June 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Write proposal for Stage 1 funding \u2013Jo Ellen, Chris, Richard to review<\/p>\n July-Oct 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Travel to different communities to talk to local community media about what would bring them to a national conference\u2014Jo Ellen plus organizer (hopefully from foreign language media)<\/p>\n Aug\u00a02015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Set conference date; Set conference location; Create conference website; Identify venue\u2014Jo Ellen with input from committee.<\/p>\n Sept-Dec 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sell sponsorships and exhibit areas for conference\u2014tbd; Plan program\u2014Committee to be formed; Write proposal to funders for travel money and for post-conference work.<\/p>\n Dec-Feb\u00a02016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marketing campaign to bring as many individuals as possible to conference; Continue to sell sponsorships, etc.; Plan strategy for post-conference projects.<\/p>\n Feb-Apr\u00a02016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Conference<\/p>\n May 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Follow-up tbd by what happens during pre-conference planning and conference itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday morning, May 16 Host: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, The Media Consortium Participants: Chris Faraone, Dig Publishing, Boston Juana Ponce de Leon, NYC Council Speaker\u2019s Office, formerly NY Independent Press Association Richard Logan, The David and Reva Logan Foundation We didn\u2019t take detailed notes because we were too busy taking action steps. However, we did […]<\/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-27","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\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}