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**THE RESEARCHERS: Bill Densmore, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute [http://www.rjionline.org/events/stories/mclellan-sept-event/index.php (Block by Block, Sept. 23-24)] / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta INFOTRUST.ORG]
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**THE RESEARCHERS: [http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Bill Densmore,] Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute [http://www.rjionline.org/events/stories/mclellan-sept-event/index.php (Block by Block, Sept. 23-24)] / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta INFOTRUST.ORG]
 
**THE PRACTITIONER: Laurie Cirivello, Grand Rapids Community Media Center/ [http://therapidian.org/ Rapidian]
 
**THE PRACTITIONER: Laurie Cirivello, Grand Rapids Community Media Center/ [http://therapidian.org/ Rapidian]
 
**THE THINK TANK: James Losey, [http://opentechinstitute.org/ Open Technology Initiative]/The New America Foundation
 
**THE THINK TANK: James Losey, [http://opentechinstitute.org/ Open Technology Initiative]/The New America Foundation

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Community Media and the Future of News

(A discussion at the Alliance for Community Media annual meeting in Pittsburgh, Penn., July 9, 2010. Simple URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/acmcitij )

AGENDA

Who are our discussion leaders?

What do we want to accomplish?

  • Connect the policy discussion with what's happening on the ground.
  • Report to the Aspen Institute for its Knight Foundation followup work

How do PEG/Community Media Centers feed these three objectives?

(Report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities, Page XI)

  • Maximize the availability of relevant and credible information to all Americans and their communities;
  • Strengthen the capacity of individuals to engage with information; and
  • Promote individual engagement with information and the public life of the community.
  • what community media sees as needed or could facilitate.

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