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Policy guides designed for independent media producers, outlets and journalists.

Re:Imagining Change – Guide and Tools for Story-based Strategy

Submitted by cima on Thu, 2008-12-04 09:23.
Categories: Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Case Studies | PR & Communications | Issues for Media-Makers | Organizers' Tools | Storytelling

Download 60 pages of ideas, analysis, case studies, and strategies to change your campaign, your community and your world.

http://www.smartmeme.org/change

Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video

Submitted by cima on Sun, 2008-10-05 18:27.
Categories: Report/White Paper | Issues for Media-Makers | Access | Copyright&IP | United States | Key Technologies for Media Activists

Best ways to fairly use copyrighted material in online video.

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/fair_use_in_online_video/

False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Ownership Consolidation in the Radio Industry

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2007-09-04 22:27.
Categories: Report/White Paper | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Case Studies | Issues for Media-Makers | Access | Diversity | Representation | Storytelling | United States

This report from Peter DiCola, Research Director, Future of Music Coalition, shows how radio consolidation harms listeners, as well as, industry participants.

http://www.futureofmusic.org/research/

National Video Resources (Announcement)

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2007-02-27 15:54.
Categories: Popular Education | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Article | Issues for Media-Makers | Interactive feature | Access | Independent media | United States

National Video Resources (NVR) becomes RENEW MEDIA

http://renewmedia.org/joomla/

Getting Your Story in the Media (Resource Link)

Submitted by Elsa on Mon, 2006-04-03 19:50.
Categories: Popular Education | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Issues for Media-Makers | Access | Constituency-building | Handout/flyer | North America | Representation | United States

Using media to advance your issue.

http://www.advocacy.org/pdf/Media_Communications.doc

Good Fences Make Bad Broadband: Preserving an Open Internet through Net Neutrality (A Public Knowledge White Paper 2006)

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2006-02-28 15:54.
Categories: Report/White Paper | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Changing Policy | Issues for Media-Makers | Access | Community Media | FCC | Independent media | United States | Web | Key Technologies for Media Activists

Several groups have called upon Congress to enact, or the FCC to adopt, an enforceable “Net Neutrality” rule to ensure the Internet remains open and accessible to all.

http://www.publicknowledge.org/content/papers/pk-net-neutrality-whitep-20060206

Who Makes the News Report 2005: from Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2006-02-16 15:43.
Categories: Report/White Paper | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Issues for Media-Makers | Access | Diversity | Gender | Global/International | Women | Global media/communication movement(s)

Global research on gender and news media.

http://www.whomakesthenews.org/who_makes_the_news/report_2005

Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control (2005 Report)

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2005-12-30 14:33.
Categories: Academic Research | Issues for Media-Makers | Access | FCC | Independent media | IP/Copyright/Digital Use Rights | Storytelling | United States

WillFairUseSurvive.pdf (2.12 MB)

Wed, 2005-11-16 14:00

Copyright Policy

The MediaWorks Initiative Report: Media Funding for Social Change

Submitted by Elsa on Wed, 2005-10-19 01:16.
Categories: Report/White Paper | Funding issues | Issues for Media-Makers | Independent media | United States

FinalMWIreport.pdf (258.18 KB)

Sun, 2003-11-02 01:00

The Double Bottom Line (Investors' Circle Report)

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2005-08-05 16:35.
Categories: Report (series) | Issues for Media-Makers | Access | Community Media | Diversity | Independent media | United States

Alternative media financing

http://www.investorscircle.net/ic/dblmediafinance.php