By Sergey Denisenko
When Donald Trump pulled off a stunning victory to win the U.S. presidency, I—and many others who work in digital media—began to speculate about how the Trump administration might handle net neutrality.
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BroadwayWorld: Arts Organizations on the Importance of the National Endowment for the Arts
By Alexa Criscitiello
The overall assumption regarding an interest in the arts seems to be one of partisan politics. Its value is an often-debated topic in a divided nation whose idealistic chasm grows wider by the day.
Video Roundtable: Youth Media (Febuary 2017)
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PEN America: DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
PEN America's take on today's most pressing threats to free expression
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This Fine Day We Wake With The Poets
By Wendy Levy
On Monday, January 30, award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar posted poems on his Twitter account by poets from nations banned by the immigration block. Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen—incredible words of vision, hope, truth.
Corporation For Public Broadcasting: Reported Trump Privatization Plan Would Be “Devastating” To Public Media
By Matt Gertz
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is pushing back on reported efforts by the Trump administration to privatize it, saying the proposal would have a “devastating effect” and that “the entire public media service would be severely debilitated.”
IndieWire: Stories of Trump’s America: How Documentary Filmmakers Plan to Escape the Liberal Bubble
By Anthony Kaufman
On November 12 of this year, Impact Partners executive director and documentary producer Dan Cogan wrote a powerful call to action on Facebook. “The last 4 days have been a horror. The next 4 years will be worse,” he wrote. “And yet my pulse is quickening, because there is so much to be done, and we, the documentary film community, are in pole position to make a huge difference.”
NAMAC Becomes The ALLIANCE
Plus—Joining The ALLIANCE Is Now Sliding Scale DECEMBER 5, 2016 ABOUT OUR NAME CHANGE We are excited to announce that beginning on January 1, 2017...
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‘What are our desired futures?’
By Jason Wyman
“What are our desired futures?” Now, more than ever, this question seems critical to our country and our democracy. This election has brought to the light the significant divides in this country across age, geography, economic class, race, gender, and political ideology.
Let Us Cover the World in Gold
By Myah Overstreet
When I first began working on this project, to curate an inspiring collection of media created by youth in 2016, I didn’t know where to start—I didn’t know who to contact, what artists to recruit, or what kind of media I was really going for. The only thought that truly gave me inspiration was the thought, the vision, of living in a world transformed by art that young minds created, and how much I yearned to create this world.