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Featuring
independent media EDUCATORS, EXPERTS, and ACTIVISTS: The book has TWO parts:
Both parts in
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“David Mathison's
BE THE MEDIA
offers the
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"media" and return this most important feature of democracy to the people. The
practical advice offered in this book are ideas whose time has come ... and none
too soon. For those who've come to understand that the "news" and what's hot in
popular culture are decisions made by large corporations, this book is must
reading. Here is the hand book for those Americans who want to join and
help lead the revolution that is urgently returning to the people, the power of
conveying information to a populace starved for new ideas from outside the box
of big business commercialism.” -
Phil Donahue
"BE THE MEDIA brings together
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Part One: The Personal Media Renaissance
Part Two: The Community Media Renaissance
FOREWORD, Part One: One Thousand True Fans, By Kevin Kelly
From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. Kelly also conceived and oversaw the publication of four versions of the Whole Earth Catalogs, compendiums evaluating the best "tools" available for self-education. The kinds of tools reviewed included hardware, power tools, books, and software -- anything that leverages power to individuals. Over a million Whole Earth Catalogs have been sold. Kelly co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control. Kevin Kelly's writing has appeared in many national and international publications such as the New York Times, The Economist, Time, Harpers, Science, GQ, and Esquire. Before taking up the consequences of technology, Kelly was a nomadic photojournalist. One summer he rode a bicycle 5,000 miles across America. For most of the 1970s he was a photographer in remote parts of Asia. His photographs have appeared in LIFE and other national magazines. Kelly is a member of the Global Business Network, a consulting group that specializes in creating scenarios of the future for global businesses. He is a Fellow at the Center for Business Innovation, and serves on the Board of Directors at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Kelly is a member of the board of The Long Now Foundation, a group of concerned individuals building a clock and library that will last 10,000 years. His current passion is a campaign to make a full inventory of all living species on earth, called the All Species Inventory.
FOREWORD, Part Two: The Opportunity for Renaissance, by Douglas Rushkoff
Winner of the first Neil Postman award for
Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is
an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures,
and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He sees
"media" as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and "literacy" as
the ability to participate consciously in it. Rushkoff founded the Narrative Lab at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, received an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts, a post-graduate fellowship (MFA) from The American Film Institute, and a Director's Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has worked as a certified stage fight choreographer, and as keyboardist for the industrial band PsychicTV.
BOOKS: How To Self-Publish A Book. With Dan Poynter
Dan is an early technology adopter - he published the first laser-typeset book in 1981, he was the first to send a galley to Publishers Weekly electronically in 1983, he pioneered fax-on-demand to sell reports in the mid-80's, and he has been selling downloadable reports from his web site since 1986. Dan won the Benjamin Franklin Award from the Publishers Marketing Association and the Irwin Award for the best electronic promotion campaign by the Book Publicists of Southern California. Dan's seminars have been featured on CNN, his books have been pictured in The Wall Street Journal, and his story has been told in U.S. News & World Report. Dan's books are loaded with facts, figures and detailed inside information, and he has perfected a system of writing that makes it all easy and fun.
BOOKS: Teleseminar Secrets. By Alex Mandossian
Since 1991, Alex Mandossian has generated over $233 million in sales and profits for his clients and partners via “electronic marketing” media such as TV Infomercials, online catalogs, 24-hour recorded messages, voice/fax broadcasting, Teleseminars, Webinars, Podcasts and Internet Marketing. He has hosted teleseminars with many of the world’s top thought leaders such as Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey, Les Brown, David Allen, Vic Conant, Brian Tracy, David Bach, Harvey Mackay, Robert Cialdini, Harv Eker, Bobbi De Porter, Michael Masterson, Joe Vitale, Gay and Katie Hendricks, Bob Proctor, and many others. Alex has personally consulted Dale Carnegie Training, NYU, 1ShoppingCart Corp., Mutuals.com, Pinnacle Care, Strategic Coach, Trim Spa and many others. He has trained over 8,300 teleseminar students since 2002 and claims that practically any entrepreneur can transform their annual income into a weekly income once they apply his principle-centered electronic marketing strategies. (KEY POINT: Alex’s 2001 annual income became an hourly income by 2006 and he has tripled his days off). He is the CEO of Heritage House Publishing, Inc. – a boutique electronic marketing and publishing company that “repurposes” written and spoken educational content for worldwide distribution. He is also the founder of the Electronic Marketing Institute.
FILM: The Revolution in Digital Movie Production and Distribution. By Peter Broderick
Next Wave’s features include: Christopher Nolan’s Following; Joe Carnahan’s Blood Guts Bullets & Octane; Julie Money’s Envy; Ron Judkins' The Hi-Line; Jordan Melamed’s Manic; Henry Barrial’s Some Body; Kate Davis’s Southern Comfort, Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury; David and Laurie Shapiro’s Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale; Amir Bar-Lev’s Fighter Maxie Collier's Paper Chasers and Tony Fisher's The Trouble with Men and Women. Broderick played a key role in the growth of the ultra-low budget feature movement. A leading advocate of digital moviemaking, Broderick has given presentations on digital production at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin and many other festivals. He has lectured at Harvard, taught courses at UCLA, and written articles for Scientific American, The New York Times, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, and Filmmaker magazine. His latest article, “Maximizing Distribution,” was published in the Directors Guild of America magazine (Jan. 2004) and is online at www.dga.org. He began his film career working with Terrence Malick on Days of Heaven. A graduate of Brown University, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he practiced law in Washington, DC.
FILM: House Parties. By Robert Greenwald
In addition to his documentary work, Greenwald has produced and/or directed more than 50 television movies, miniseries and feature films, including: The Book of Ruth (2004), based on the best selling book by Jane Hamilton; The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003); Blonde, a miniseries based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe; The Burning Bed, starring Farrah Fawcett as an abused housewife; Our Guys, based on the true story of a rape in a small town; Shattered Spirits, starring Martin Sheen, about alcoholism; Forgotten Prisoners, about the work of Amnesty International; and Hiroshima. Greenwald's films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations, four cable ACE Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award, and eight Awards of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute. Greenwald is the recipient of awards and honors for his political work by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California; the L.A. chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; Physicians for Social Responsibility; and the Office of the Americas. He is a co-founder (with Danny and Victor Goldberg) of RDV Books, as well as the co-founder (with Mike Farrell) of "Artists United," a group of actors and others opposed to the war in Iraq, which continues to work toward publicizing progressive causes. Greenwald also has lectured at Harvard University for the Nieman Fellows Foundation for Journalism.
FILM: The Desktop Studio. By Mark Stolaroff
Stolaroff was formerly a
principal of Next Wave Films, a company of The Independent Film Channel that
provided finishing funds to exceptional, low budget films; and through its
production arm Agenda 2000, financed and executive produced digital
features. Included in Next Wave's 13 films are Christopher Nolan's ("Memento,"
"Batman Begins") first feature, "Following"; Joe Carnahan's ("Narc," "Smokin'
Aces") first feature, "Blood, Guts, Bullets, & Octane"; the Academy
Award-nominated documentary "Sound And Fury"; and the Sundance Grand Jury
Prize winning documentary "Southern Comfort." He was the Associate Producer on
a number of Next Wave projects, including "Some Body" and "Manic," (starring
Don Cheadle and Joseph Gordon-Levitt), two digital features at the 2001
Sundance Film Festival, and the award-winning theatrical documentary "Keep The
River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale." In all Next Wave took seven
films to Sundance and five to Toronto; nine were released theatrically in the
U.S. and two premiered on HBO; nine were shot digitally and six of those were
transferred to film. He has extensive production experience on several low budget features and shorts, including production managing the Academy Award winning short film "My Mother Dreams The Satan's Disciples in New York." His background also includes two years in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and five years as the Managing Director of Curtains Theater, an innovative legitimate theater he founded in Houston, where he produced over 40 plays. A native Texan, Stolaroff received his BBA from the prestigious Business Honors Program at the University of Texas in Austin and minored in Film Production, directing several 16mm shorts.
RADIO SHOW: How To Create And Distribute A Radio Program. With Doug Kaye
In what seems to him like a previous lifetime, Doug was a recording engineer in film and television. After mixing one too many TV commercials and English dubs of Lina Wertmuller films he made a break to the software industry. After another 18 years as an IT entrepreneur/CEO, he successfully worked his way down the corporate ladder and served as CTO/VP Engineering of four dot-com startups: one successful IPO, two shutdowns, one still on life support. That's Doug, above, hard at work on his widely heralded latest book, Loosely Coupled—The Missing Pieces of Web Services. His first book, Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services, is considered the #1 title in those industries by customers and vendors alike.
MUSIC: The New Music Model. With Alan Korn, Esq. Mr. Korn was associate counsel for the prevailing party in a significant trademark case decided by the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York, Jeffrey Milstein, Inc. v. Greger, Lawlor, Roth, Inc., 58 F.3d 27 (2d Cir. 1995), and together with Jeffrey A. Berchenko, counsel for the prevailing party in a copyright case also in New York, The Ernst Haas Studio, Inc. v. Palm Press, Inc. 164 F.3d 110 (2d Cir. 1999). More recently, Mr. Korn was counsel for the prevailing party in the copyright case of Mendler v. Winterland, 207 F3d 1119 (9th Cir. 2000), affirming the rights of photographers to control the digitization of their work. Mr. Korn's articles on legal issues for musicians (originally published for his monthly Internet column, The Fine Print, in Music World) are available on his Web site. He was extensively interviewed in the documentary film, Sonic Outlaws by Craig Baldwin (1995), addressing fair use issues arising at the intersection of copyright law, free speech and contemporary artistic expression. Mr. Korn also sits on the steering committee of the National Lawyers Guild Committee on Democratic Communications (CDC). Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Korn worked as a songwriter, musician, recording artist and music journalist in the Bay Area. Mr. Korn graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a B.A. in American Studies and B.A. in Psychology, 1981, College Honors and Thesis Honors. He graduated from San Francisco State University with an M.A. in Broadcast Communication Arts, 1986, College Honors. He earned his J.D. from Golden Gate University in 1993, where he was on the National Dean's List and listed in Who's Who Among American Law Students. At Golden Gate University, Mr. Korn served as Issue Editor of the Golden Gate University Law Review: First Amendment Law Symposium, and wrote the Comment Renaming That Tune: Aural Collage, Parody and Fair Use (First Prize, GGU Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition).
MUSIC: The Medium is the Music - Feel the Power of Creating Your Own. By Robert Laughlin
LICENSING: Nonprofit Licensing. With
Sherry Westin
Sherry is responsible for driving revenue growth through licensing, corporate sponsorship and philanthropic development, and providing consistent messaging and marketing that promotes the Workshop's entrepreneurship and mission. Prior to this position, Sherrie was Executive Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Research, responsible for the overall strategic positioning of the Workshop and its various properties.
Westin currently serves on the Board of Directors of Communities in Schools, the Board of Directors of the United States Fund for UNICEF, the Board of Advisors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and the Advisory Board of the Association to Benefit Children. Westin received a B.A. in Communications from the University of Virginia.
LICENSING: Nonprofit Licensing. With Jaime Berman Matyas
Ms. Matyas is responsible for the National Wildlife Federation's branding, educational outreach, corporate and internet marketing, and strategic partnerships. Jaime serves on the board of directors of eNature.com, the premier site for local wildlife and nature information. Prior to joining NWF, she held marketing and communications positions at Hanna-Barbera Productions and International Marketing Group, Inc. Jaime holds bachelors degrees in Communications and Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and Executive Education certification in Finance and Marketing from the Aresty Institute at the Wharton School of Business.
INTERNET: The Wiki Way. By Adam Souzis
Adam Souzis is the co-founder of StyleMob (www.stylemob.com), a new community for street fashion inspiration. Stylemob's mission is to create a place for real people to have a say about fashion. Adam is also the creator of the Rhizome project (www.liminalzone.org). Rhizome is an experimental, open-source content management framework that can capture and represent informal, human-authored content in a semantically rich manner. Rhizome aims to help bring about a new kind of commons - one of ideas. This idea commons would comprise more than than just a web of interlinked content (as exemplified by the World Wide Web), but a web of relationships between the underlying ideas and distinctions that the content implies: a permanent, universally accessible interlinking of content based on imputed semantics such as concepts, definitions, or structured argumentation. Mr. Souzis recently wrote about his pioneering work in this field in an article for the IEEE called "Building a Semantic Wiki" (IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 20, Number 5, September/October 2005) Mr. Souzis was co-founder and CTO of content distribution software company Kinecta Corporation. Kinecta was acquired by Stellent Inc, a provider of enterprise content management solutions with over 4,400 customers, including much of the Global 2000. In November 2006, Stellent was acquired by Oracle for $440 million. For the last decade Adam has been creating new internet technology for startups such as General Magic, NetObjects, and Stellent. Mr. Souzis has been involved with numerous XML and RDF standards efforts and is a co-author of the ICE (Internet Content Exchange) web service standard. Adam has provided a prototype of his semantic wiki to BE THE MEDIA, which can be accessed by clicking on the 'WIKI' bar in the navigation column to the left, or by clicking here.
INTERNET: The Identity
Commons. By Kaliya Hamlin Kaliya has drawn on her experience researching and developing Integrative Activism and access to an extensive network to consult with organizations considering deploying social networking technologies. She is an associate of the Co-Intelligence Institute and a contributor to the National Coalition on Dialogue Deliberation site. She is actively involved in sharing information with two key “green economy projects” Interra Project www.interraproject.org and Solari www.solari.com.
SYNDICATION: All About Syndication, by David Mathison
From 1999-2001, Mathison was CEO and co-founder of the Kinecta Corporation, creator of Interact, a leading-edge platform for content syndication. Some of the world's largest publishers used Kinecta Interact to directly connect with their audiences. Customers include respected, trusted, global companies such as Reuters Ltd, the Financial Times, the Economist, Red Herring, Fidelity, MSN, AOL, and Yahoo! among many others. Kinecta was acquired in 2002 by Stellent Inc, a provider of enterprise content management solutions with over 4,400 customers, including much of the Global 2000. In November 2006, Stellent was acquired by Oracle for $440 million. From 1994-1999, Mathison was Vice President with Reuters, where he led the development of innovative syndication technology that delivered Reuter's financial data, stock quotes, headlines, audio, video and multimedia news to customers over the Internet. His legacy provides millions of global citizens with free news, financial data, audio and video information on the web's most popular sites. Articles on Mathison have appeared on CNN.com, in the Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, Fortune, Upside, The New York Times, the Seybold Report, CNet, Red Herring and MacWorld, among many others. Mathison has presented at conferences across all segments of the media, such as Digital Hollywood, Book Tech, Streaming Media, Seybold Publishing, Internet World, and Internet Outlook, among others. Internationally, he has appeared at UK Online, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Cairo Book Fair, and he made presentations entirely in Spanish to librarians throughout Central and South America. Mathison serves as a Director on the Board of Webhood, a non-profit entity whose mission is to break down income related barriers to computer education for underprivileged youth. Mathison holds a B.A. from the State University of New York, and a Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Mathison's biography can be found in the media room here.
SYNDICATION: All About Syndication, with Stu Rees Stu Rees' clients include over 100 of the 250 nationally syndicated newspaper cartoonists. He is the only lawyer specializing in syndication contracts. Stu also represents another 200 cartoonists and writers in a mix of online, greeting card, book licensing and smaller syndication deals. A lifelong fan of newspaper comics, Stu co-created weekly cartoons for his law school newspaper and is creator of the law cartoon Stu's Views. Stu's 1997 Harvard Law dissertation "Drafting Creator Contracts" analyzed contracts between syndicates and creators. It was the first-ever academic investigation of the subject, and it gave both syndicates and creators the tools to better draft and interpret contracts. After posting the 110-page paper on the Internet and speaking at the annual National Cartoonist Society convention, Stu was overwhelmed by calls from cartoonists requesting more information on copyright, trademark and contract negotiations. Stu is a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover (1988), the University of California at Berkeley, magna cum laude, economics and political science (1992), and Harvard Law School, cum laude (1997).
SYNDICATION: All About Syndication, illustration by Keith Knight
Keith's work appears in various publications, including Salon.com, The L.A. Weekly, The Funny Times, PULSE! magazine, and MH-18. Three of his strips were the basis of an award-winning live-action short in Germany. And his original comic strip art has appeared in museums and galleries worldwide. He has released three collections of his multi-panel strip, The K Chronicles, and is planning to release the first collection of his single panel strip, (th)ink. In 2007, Knight won the prestigious Harvey Award, the comic book industry's oldest and most respected award, for Best Syndicated Strip or Panel. Other nominees for this award category were Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau, Mutts by Patrick McDonnell, MAAKIES by Tony Millionaire, and ANTIQUES. "The Knight Life," Keith's daily strip syndicated by United Features Syndicate, debuted on Monday May 5, 2008 (Cinco de Mayo AND National Cartoonist's Day!) Keith serves on the Board of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, CA. His semi-conscious hip-hop band, the Marginal Prophets, will kick your ass. The Marginal Prophets recently won the California Music Award for their latest disc, Bohemian Rap CD! Keith Knight is available to speak at your school, prison, business, library or community center.
SYNDICATION: All About Syndication, Illustration by Lloyd Dangle
Dangle's work has appeared in over 100 publications, "from the crusty corporate mainstream, to the altruistic not-for-profit, to the loftiest academic journals, to the bleeding, subcommercial gutter." Publications include Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, Time Magazine, Village Voice, Weirdo, and Wired. Dangle has published several books and compilations, and has exhibited his artwork across the US and abroad. Dangle licenses his artwork for merchandised products as varied as candy, cold medicine, and jigsaw puzzles. Dangle served as National President and Northern California Chapter President of the Graphic Artists Guild. During the early 1990's, Dangle organized the "All-rights Refuseniks," a group that used skits and stunts to educate artists regarding issues relating to contracts and copyright issues to help counter the rise of publisher's "all-rights" master contracts. He organized an effort to reform California sales tax regulations for visual artists, to give them the same copyright protections as authors. A ruling by the California Supreme Court (Preston vs State Board of Equalization) supported the Graphic Artists Guild's position, and led to a rewrite of the sales tax regulations for graphic artists. Dangle graduated from Ann Arbor Huron High School in 1979 and earned a BFA in 1983 from the University of Michigan School of Art, where he was Editor and contributor to the University's Gargoyle Humor Magazine. In Flint, Michigan, Dangle worked for Michael Moore's Michigan Voice newspaper as a designer, paste-up artist, and cartoonist.
ZINES: Be a zinester: How and Why to Publish Your Own Periodical by Anne Elizabeth Moore
Anne Elizabeth Moore (Best American Comics; Punk Planet; Hey Kidz, Buy This Book!) has seen her work in print since the age of 15. Her work in comics and cultural criticism, self-publishing, and radical distribution has earned both police intervention and international praise. Moore has remained an advocate for artistic expression via radical rethinking of the printed word throughout her 21-year career. In 2006, she was granted the first annual Real Hot 100 Award, created in response to the Maxim Hot 100, in acknowledgment of her feminist work for change in media and culture. Ms Moore was named an "Industrial Strength Woman" by feminist comics organization Friends of Lulu in 2001. Her work has appeared in The Progressive, Bitch, and Tin House, among many others. Moore's writing and editorial projects have been acclaimed by Entertainment Weekly, Time, USA Today, Time Out New York Kids, The Boston Globe, In These Times, and others. She lives in Chicago, where she is currently completing the 2007 edition of Best American Comics as well as her book Unmarketable, due out from The New Press in the Spring of 2007.
NEWSPAPERS: Fault Lines: A Community Newspaper. By The Fault Lines Collective
By operating with transparency, this newspaper hopes to achieve the goal of allowing the public, not corporate conglomerations, to set the agenda for news coverage. Our mission is to train and empower marginalized voices. This publication was created to be used as a tool for radical change in our communities by exposing the stories and raising the issues that the media plutocracy seeks to suppress. We are the people, we are the media and we are dissenting from the ground up.
NEWSPAPERS: How To Create An Award-Winning Community Newspaper. With David Mitchell
The Light has just six fulltime staff members, yet in 2004 alone, it won 3 California State and 8 National Newspaper Association awards. Germany's biggest newspaper, Der Spiegel, calls The Light "the most influential small-town newspaper in America" Located in Point Reyes Station, a town of 675 people 40 miles north of San Francisco, The Light serves 13 small towns in a dairy-ranching region known as West Marin.
NEWSPAPERS: How to Create a Great College Newspaper. By Rachele Kanigel
Rachele Kanigel is an assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University and a freelance writer and editor. She teaches newspaper and magazine classes and advises Golden Gate [X]press, a converged publication that produces a monthly magazine, a weekly newspaper and an online site that's updated daily. Rachele is author of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide, a book designed to help college students produce great campus newspapers. Before becoming an academic, she was a newspaper reporter for 15 years, working at The Oakland Tribune, the Contra Costa Times, and The News and Observer of Raleigh, NC. She was also a freelance correspondent for TIME. Her magazine articles have appeared in Health, Reader’s Digest, Organic Style, Alternative Medicine and on a number of Web sites, including Healthscout, WebMD and CNN.com. She is on the founding board of the California College Media Association and is active in College Media Advisers and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Rachele holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree in journalism from San Francisco State University.
NEWSPAPERS: High School Journalism Matters. With Katharine Swan
She moved to Lowell High, one of the top performing schools in the country. Each year her students win numerous national awards for their school newspaper, The Lowell, which is one of the best in the country. Students earned the National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Awards in 2001, 2002, and 2003; the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown Awards in 2003, 2000 and 1999; and the National Scholastic Press Association Hall of Fame Award in 2001. Her students also win numerous individual awards for their writing and design.
LPFM RADIO STATION: Put Your Hands on the Radio, People: How To Create A Community Radio Station. By Pete triDish
He was the organizer and speaker for the Radio Mutiny tour of 25 cities from January to March of 1998, and undertook another 20-city tour in February 1999 with the Prometheus Radio Project. He also worked on the first two microradio conferences on the East Coast --and organized radio barnraisings in 5 communities around the United States. He actively participated in the rulemaking that led up to the adoption of LPFM. He sat on the committee that sponsored the crucial Broadcast Signal Labs study, which proved to the FCC that LPFM would not cause interference. Tridish has helped to build a number of low power radio stations, and provided advice to hundreds. He has done radio trainings in Guatemala, Colombia, Nepal and other countries. He has spoken at colleges, coffee shops, living rooms, and even the CATO Institute. He has been interviewed for several segments on NPR, a number of college, public and pirate radio stations, CNN, for Maximum Rock and Roll, Radio Ink, Radio and Records, Philadelphia City Paper, Baltimore City Paper, Albany Times Union, Philadelphia Inquirer, Freedom Forum, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, the Nation, Talkers Magazine, Washington Post, Broadcasting and Cable, Radio World, Hollywood Reporter, Z Magazine, Paper Tiger TV and other news outlets. He holds a BA in Appropriate Technology from Antioch College.
LPFM RADIO STATION: Put Your Hands on the Radio, People: How To Create A Community Radio Station. By Sakura Saunders
Ms. Saunders sits on the board of directors of Prometheus Radio Project, a group that advocates for and builds Low Power radio stations. Sakura's radio/tv work has appeared on Democracy Now! and Sprouts radio, and her writing has been published on CorpWatch.org and the publication, Fault Lines, the monthly newspaper of Indybay, for which she is also a volunteer editor.
LPFM RADIO STATION: Put Your Hands on the Radio, People: How To Create A Community Radio Station. By J. Zach Schiller
As a volunteer for the Prometheus Radio Project, he lent his meager physical labor during their barnraisings in Spokane, WA and Immokalee, FL, and has publicly admonished the FCC's lax enforcement of commercial broadcasters' public interest obligations during the FCC Localism Hearings in Monterrey, CA in July of 2004. Professor Schiller's essay, "On Becoming the Media: Low Power FM and Alternative Public Spheres" appears in Media and Public Shperes (2007) published by Palgrave MacMillan, Richard Butsch, editor.
TELEVISION PROGRAM: How To Produce a Television Show. With Robert Kubey
Professor Kubey has authored three books, his most recent, Creating Television: Conversations With The People Behind 50 Years of American TV" was published in 2004. The first, Television and the Quality of Life (1990, LEA) was co-authored with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and the second was Media Literacy in the Information Age (1997/2001, Transaction). Robert Kubey has written articles for the New York Times, Scientific American, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Education Week, and other major newspapers, magazines a |
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The
law office of Alan Korn focuses on intellectual property, business law,
music, photography, art, copyright, trademark and multimedia issues. From 1993
to 1994 Mr. Korn served as "of counsel" with the Law Office of Deena Zacharin,
representing musicians, recording artists and numerous independent record
labels. He was associated with Bogatin, Berchenko & Corman from 1994 through
1997, and a partner with Berchenko & Korn from 1997 through 2000. 
David Mathison is an
internationally recognized media expert with more than 20 years experience in
content distribution and management. Since 2001, he has been Chairman and CEO of
the Natural E Creative Group, a diversified media company.
J. Zach Schiller
is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kent State University, Stark Campus, in
North Canton, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the
University of California, Davis in September, 2005. He has been an itinerant
college/community radio volunteer and programmer since 1995. His dissertation
was an ethnography of a Low Power FM station's first three years of life, and
the role of LPFM in the wider revival of community radio in the US. The analysis
centers on the relationship of vibrant local public spheres to the revival of
civil society, and in turn, the role of the civil society in enabling the state
to secure and preserve protections for local public spheres. 