Federal Assault on Local Media and Municipalities Continues
The FCC is continuing its assault on local communities and local media. The FCC has announced two agenda items for its September 26th meeting that will cripple city and county budgets and perhaps defund franchise fees.
The more immediate Order would bar localities from charging rent for the use (…)
Deadline: November 1, 2018
The Alliance for Community Media will hold its Annual Conference and Trade Show at the Downtown Hilton in Portland, OR on July 10-12, 2019. The event will gather approximately 400 community media practitioners and volunteers working in Public Educational and Government Access media, youth media, community radio, podcasting and other community-based media (…)
Changing Society for the Better
Here’s some interesting late summer reading for you before the unofficial end of summer next Monday:
The Stanford Social Innovation Review published an article recently on the potential that millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) have for changing institutions and changing society for the better.
Particularly interesting to me is the idea (…)
Community Media Day is Two Months Away
It’s August 20th…just two scant months away from Community Media Day 2019 on October 20th!
This is the third year community media organizations around the country will be celebrating the work we do with film festivals, open houses, concerts, proclamations and other special events.
What will you be doing?
Now is a (…)
Support ACM’s Proposals for SXSW
ACM has put together two panel proposals for the SXSW education conference in Austin, TX for spring 2019. It’s part of our effort to promote community media to different communities across the country. SXSW has a voting procedure to help select panels and we’d like you to help us by clicking (…)
What an extraordinary week in Baltimore!
Thank you to our thirty vendors and sponsors, the donors who stepped forward to support our Foundation and Public Policy work, and all the folks who came from around the country to take part in our National Conference, #ACMBmore.
We heard a lot of great feedback from people at the conference. (…)
I’m counting down the hours to seeing many of you at #ACMBmore – the ACM National Conference in Baltimore. Here’s some quick last minute notes for you if you’re going to Charm City or even if you can’t make it this year!
We’ll be livestreaming key events at the Conference thanks to the help of the (…)
Afternoon In-Depth Workshop: “Program Design and Fundraising Models for Youth Media”
ACM is working with one of the leading youth media organizations in the US; Wide Angle Youth Media, in Baltimore, to put together a workshop on ways you can design youth media programs at your facility for long-term success. The workshop takes place on Wednesday, (…)
Fundraising Emphasis at the ACM Annual Conference
The most frequent request ACM gets from members is how to expand fundraising in our work. That’s why we have an emphasis on fundraising training at our National Conference in Baltimore this summer.
We’ll feature six separate sessions on fundraising skills and philosophy throughout the three days at the conference (…)
Thank you again to all of our 2018 Hometown Media Awards participants! We are proud to announce the winners of the competition! Please click on the header to view the list of winners.
