Public Media Showcase

Dan Gillmor, Director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism, recently released Mediactive, a primer for media users in the Digital Age. Read more...

Last year at the Center for Social Media, we researched trends in community engagement in journalism and public media projects. Read more...

Last weekend's Public Media Camp was full of energy and insights from several hundred public media staffers, researchers and enthusiasts. Developers worked away in one room, consultants offered up free services, and dozens of others spearheaded formal and informal sessions. Sessions covered a diverse array of topics, including gaming, policy, mobile apps and public media's response to the culture war. For insights on these topics and more, check out the #pubcamp hashtag on twitter. Read more...

In February 2010, University of Pennsylvania doctoral student Christopher Ali conducted a descriptive content analysis of the news and information programming of all PBS stations with available websites, which confirmed the lack of local daily public TV news.Read more...

On November 15, Philadelphia’s WHYY will debut its new local news portal, NewsWorks.org. A year in the making, NewsWorks will focus specifically on the Philadelphia and Delaware Valley regions, and, according to the station, will be “everything you love about NPR, only on the Web, and about Philly.”