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  • Media and journalism organizations
  • Festivals and awards competitions
  • Media access for impaired audiences
  • Lists of media links
  • FCC
  • Media activists and critics
  • Pubcasters' blogs, Flickr pages and personal sites
  • International broadcasting
  • Broadcast history and archives
  • Academia — broadcast and film education
  • Media engineering and technology
  • Media periodicals and websites
  • Webcams

Media and journalism organizations

  • American Society of Cinematographers
  • Asian American Journalists Association
  • Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors — organizer of the annual Capitolbeat conference
  • Association for Women in Communication — formerly WICI (Women in Communication)
  • American Women in Radio and Television
  • Audio Publishers Association — audio books trade group
  • BDA International — Broadcast Designers Association
  • Directors Guild of America
  • Institute for Interactive Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park
  • International Center for Journalists
  • Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • Mandy's International Film and TV Production Directory — freelancers available around the world
  • Minorities in Broadcasting Training Program
  • National Association of Black Journalists
  • National Association of Broadcasters
  • National Association of Hispanic Journalists
  • National Association of Science Writers
  • NATPE — National Association of Television Program Executives
  • National Cable Television Association
  • National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association
  • National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
  • Native American Journalists Association
  • Pew Center for Civic Journalism, University of Maryland
  • Producers Guild of America, of all things
  • Promax International — association of broadcast promotion specialists
  • Radio-Television News Directors Association
  • Society of Environmental Journalists
  • Society of Professional Journalists
  • South Asian Journalists Association
  • Traffic Directors Guild of America
  • Women in Film
  • Writers Guild of America

Festivals and awards competitions

  • Annie Awards, International Animated Film Society
  • Banff World Television Festival, Alberta, Canada
  • CINE — organizers of the Golden Eagle Film and Video Competition
  • Emmys, primetime — Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Hollywood
  • Emmys, daytime, news and regional — National Television Academy, New York
  • Environmental Film Festival, Washington, DC — American University
  • Gabriel Awards — Unda USA, part of the International Catholic Association for Radio and Television
  • INPUT — U.S. secretariat for annual program screening conferences for public television producers around the world
  • MIP-TV — annual international program market at Cannes in the spring. Also: MIPCOM — a similar market at Cannes in the fall
  • Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Monaco (June/July)
  • Prix Italia (late September)
  • Prix Jeunesse International, Munich — children's television festival
  • Sundance Film Festival
  • Webby Awards, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
  • Other awards are given by media and journalism organizations listed above

Media access for impaired audiences

  • International Association of Audio Information Services — formerly National Association of Radio Reading Services, largely for print-handicapped audiences
  • Radiio reading services direcctory compiled by IAAIS
  • WGBH Media Access Group — parent of CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, Caption Center and Descriptive Video Service
  • National Captioning Institute — promulgator of closed-captioning technology and provider of captioning services
  • CaptionMax Inc., New York, Washington, Burbank, Minneapolis
  • FCC information on closed captioning for the hearing-impaired and video description for the sight-impaired
  • Inventors: Closed Captioning on About.com

Lists of media links

  • NewsLink, extensive list of broadcast and print sites
  • TV Link Film & Television Website Archive — TV shows, U.S. and overseas broadcasters, film festivals

Federal Communications Commission

  • FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and its:
    • Broadcast station statistics as of Sept. 30, 2001
    • Digital television
    • Electronic Comment Filing System — search for comments in FCC proceedings (you need docket number and Acrobat software)
    • E-Rate telecom services discounts for education
    • Media Bureau
    • Finding people at the FCC — or downloading the FCC phone book

Media activists and critics

  • Benton Foundation — and its Communication Policy Project
  • Center for Digital Democracy, headed by Jeff Chester
  • Center for Media and Public Affairs
  • Center for the Study of Popular Culture — conservative group headed by David Horowitz that led the right-wing critique of public broadcasting
  • Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting — lobby against dependence on corporate funding
  • FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) — a progressive media watchdog group
  • Filmmakers for Conservation
  • Free Press — public-interest media policy membership group founded by media historian Robert McChesney
  • GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) — media watchdog group
  • Listeners for MusicAmerica — fans of the program canceled by WGBH-FM
  • Media Access Project — progressive public-interest law firm headed by Andrew Schwartzman that has been active for years in FCC and other media issues
  • Media Alliance, San Francisco
  • MediaChannel — compilation of progressive news and commentary about media
  • MediaShift — Mark Glaser's blog about new media on PBS.org
  • Minority Media and Telecommunications Council — advocate for minority ownership and employment in media
  • NewsWatch — media news and criticism from the Center for Media and Public Affairs
  • NPR Check — anonymous blog from Urbana, Ill., "monitoring right-wing, pro-government and corporate bias" on NPR news
  • Pacifica-related links (several are quite out of date)
    • Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
    • Concerned Friends of WBAI
    • Confidential — commentary by a member of the KPFA local station board
    • Houston Committee for People's Radio
    • KPFK Coalition for Justice
    • Local Advisory Boards
    • North Bay for KPFA
    • Pacifica Diversity Campaign
    • People's Radio
    • Save Pacifica
    • WBAI Justice and Unity Campaign
    • ZNet's coverage of the conflict
  • Station-centered activist groups
    • BoycottWBEZ.com — listeners protest the Chicago broadcaster's decision to drop music programming
    • Keep WYSO Local — protesting cuts in local jazz and folk programming at the Yellow Springs, Ohio, station
    • KXCI Democracy Initiative — governance of KXCI-FM in Tucson, Arix.
    • Public Radio & TV Stations in Utah — critical blog by attorney Roberto Antonio Eder
    • Save Detroit Radio — listeners of Detroit's WDET-FM demand the station restore locally programmed music
    • SaveWNYC — protesting elimination of classical music programming at the New York station

Pubcasters' blogs and personal sites

Blogs

  • Ernesto Aguilar / Rolas de Aztlan — p.d. of Pacifica's KPFT-FM in Houston
  • Jonathan Ahl — news director of WCBU, Peoria, Ill., and PRNDI officer
  • Kurt Andersen — novelist, commentator and host of Studio 360
  • Bill Baker — c.e.o. and former president of Thirteen/WNET in New York
  • John Barth / Now Cough — John Barth, managing director of the Public Radio Exchange
  • Ken A. Bode — CPB ombudsman, journalism professor at DePauw University, former PBS host and network correspondent
  • Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth — senior product manager for online communities at NPR
  • Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely — analysis of high-tech developments, PBS.org
  • DEIdea Lounge — from Development Exchange Inc.
  • Andrew D. Collar / Digital TV Conversion for the Cotlar Household and Other Musings on Digital TV — associate general counsel for America's Public Television Stations
  • Mike Feder / The Feder Files — essays and reviews by monologuist and program host on New York's WBAI-FM
  • Adam Felber / Fanatical Apathy — Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! panelist
  • Bob Garfield — Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR's On the Media and columnist for Advertising Age
  • Michael Getler — PBS ombudsman
  • Mark Glaser / MediaShift — about new media for PBS.org
  • Dennis Haarsager / Technology360 — g.m. of Northwest Public Radio and KWSU/KTNW-TV in Pullman, Wash.
  • Betsy Harman / Betsy's Blog — development consultant and advisor to the Development Exchange Inc.
  • Stephen Hill / Spatial Relations — producer of Hearts of Space
  • Laurence Jarvik — conservative critic of public broadcasting
  • Christopher Lydon — Open Source host
  • Jonathan Menjivar — independent producer
  • Jonathan Mitchell / ear crack — independent producer
  • Todd Mundt / Converge — director of content and media, Iowa Public Radio (and former NPR talk host) blogs about technology, pubcasting and personal productivity
  • Eric Nuzum — author and program and acquisitions manager for NPR
  • Dean Olsher / The Next Best Thing — Dean Olsher, host of public radio's The Next Big Thing
  • Open Source Broadcasting — several pubcasters work "to facilitate sharing of produced content and content elements between local and national producers for online publishing"
  • ptvGuy — by a web designer for Southern Oregon PTV and KIXE-TV in Redding, Calif.
  • Public Broadcast Musings — anonymous group blog
  • Public Radio Slave — anonymous public radio station employee blogs about fielding calls from listeners
  • Steve Robinson — senior v.p. and g.m. of WFMT-FM in Chicago
  • Ben Roe / Ben's Blog: A Day at the RoeDeo — media consultant and producer, former NPR music chief
  • Jake Shapiro / Obligatory Blogatorium — executive director of the Public Radio Exchange
  • Julie Shapiro / lissenup — managing director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival
  • Terence Smith — special correspondent for the NewsHour and former media reporter and senior producer for the show
  • Mike Soper / Rare Medium — fundraising consultant (Team Soper) and former PBS v.p.
  • Kate Sullivan — former Pop Vultures host blogs about music and life
  • John Sutton / RadioSutton — public radio consultant
  • Bruce Warren / Some Velvet Blog — p.d. at Philadelphia's WXPN-FM, blogs and shares music
  • Keith Weston / Art of Darkness/Deeper into Music — producer and webmaster at WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Flickr pages

  • All Songs Considered — NPR's web-only music show
  • John Barth — managing director of the Public Radio Exchange
  • Andy Carvin — senior project manager for online communities at NPR
  • Tim Eby — chair of the NPR Board and radio station manager at WOSU in Columbus, Ohio
  • Brendan Greeley — blogger-in-chief at Open Source
  • Jonathan Menjivar — associate producer with Fresh Air
  • Todd Mundt — chief content officer at Michigan Public Media in Ann Arbor
  • Open Source — public radio show
  • Robert Paterson — consultant who engineered NPR's New Realities process
  • Public Radio Exchange
  • Jake Shapiro — executive director of the Public Radio Exchange
  • Spokane Public Radio, Washington
  • JJ Sutherland — NPR producer
  • Andrew Walsh — producer of The Front Porch on New Hampshire Public Radio
  • WFMU-FM, Jersey City, N.J.
  • WXDU-FM, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
  • WYEP, Pittsburgh

Other personal sites

  • Blues and Jazz Sounds — web page of Bob Putignano, host of Sounds of Blue on WFDU-FM in Teaneck, N.J.
  • Bob Boilen — All Things Considered director and All Songs Considered host shares his own music
  • Box Set Authentic — musical collective that includes NPR's Rick Karr; Karr also pitches a pubTV show at TechnoPop
  • Oscar Brand — folksinger, Sesame Street creator and WNYC host
  • Paul Brown — NPR newscaster, reporter and old-time musician
  • Alan Chartock/The Berkshire Ramblers — executive director of WAMC-FM, Albany, N.Y., and sometime banjo player
  • Chris Douridas — deejay and former music director at KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif.
  • David Garland — musician and WNYC host
  • Geoffrey P. Gaudreault — senior web designer for NPR
  • David Giovannoni — influential audience researcher in public radio, now retired
  • Handemonium — puppets by Barry Gordemer, writer, producer and director for NPR's Morning Edition
  • HandleySail.com: The Voyage of Windbird — Mark Handley, retired g.m. of New Hampshire Public Radio, documents his sailboat trip around the world
  • Dale Hobson — poetry and a blog from the web manager of North Country Public Radio in Canton, N.Y.
  • Ellen Kushner — host of WGBH's Sound and Spirit
  • Matthew Lasar — Pacifica historian
  • BJ Leiderman — composer of theme songs for public radio shows
  • Andrew Morrell — programmer for NPR, Michigan Radio and others
  • Christopher O'Riley — pianist, host of public radio's From the Top
  • Cash Peters — Marketplace contributor
  • Charles Pierce — writer and Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! panelist
  • Bill Radke — co-host of public radio's Weekend America
  • Nora Raum — attorney and NPR newscaster
  • Jay Ungar and Molly Mason — hosts of a monthly folk music show on WAMC-FM, Albany, and performers of music for Ken Burns films
  • The XPN All About the Music Blog — for the on-air and programming staff at Philadelphia's WXPN-FM

International broadcasting

  • Australian Broadcasting Corp.
  • Association for International Broadcasting — the trade association of the cross-border broadcasting industry
  • British Broadcasting Corp.
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
  • PublicBroadcasting.ca — group blog about strengthening "the independent and emerging Canadian voice"
  • Caribbean Broadcasting Union — the association of broadcasters in the Caribbean region
  • Channel 4, United Kingdom
  • Commonwealth Broadcasting Union — the association of broadcasters in former British colonies
  • European Broadcasting Union — the association of major European broadcasters
  • Granada Media International Distribution, United Kingdom
  • INPUT— the annual international public television screening conference and its links about public broadcasting overseas
  • International Telecommunications Union — the United Nations agency that oversees broadcasting
  • ITV network, United Kingdom
  • National Film Board of Canada
  • North American Broadcasters Association — the ITU-recognized body, based in Toronto, that represents U.S., Canadian and Mexican networks
  • Public Broadcasters International
  • TVOntario — Canada's largest independent educational broadcaster and a major instructional program distributor
  • World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters — AMARC [E-mail]
  • World Radio Network — London-based satellite broadcaster that relays NPR and PRI programs as well as non-U.S. national radio services

Broadcast history, museums and archives

  • Black Film Center Archive at Indiana University
  • Encyclopedia of Television — Horace Newcomb's 1997 edition, online at Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago
  • The Cable Center (National Cable Television Center and Museum) — (Denver area)
  • Library of American Broadcasting (formerly the Broadcast Pioneers Library) — University of Maryland, College Park
  • Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago)
  • Museum of Television & Radio (New York and Los Angeles)
  • National Public Broadcasting Archives — with descriptions of much of their collection at the University of Maryland, College Park
  • Preserving Digital Public Television — a project funded by the Library of Congress
  • Public Broadcasting PolicyBase — key documents in the field
  • Television History — engineer Tom Genova's site with emphasis on receivers
  • TV Dawn — Scottish engineer Don McLean's site about very early mechanical TV and disc recording developed in Britain

Academia — media studies

  • AFI Online, from the American Film Institute
  • Broadcast Education Association — college-level professors of broadcasting (new web address)
  • Center for Social Media, American University, Washington, D.C.
  • Freedom Forum — Free!, the website of the former Gannett Foundation
  • Media Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley
  • MediaStudies.Com
  • Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Media technology and engineering

  • American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — union that represents NPR's on-air talent and others in the biz
  • American Society of Cinematographers — publisher of American Cinematographer magazine
  • Association of FCC Consulting Engineers
  • Audio Engineering Society
  • ETV Cookbook — How-to guide to enhanced (interactive) television, site produced by public TV's Local Enhancement Collaborative
  • EU Online — NPR's Journal of Public Radio Technology
  • The Guild of Television Cameramen — an international group based in Britain
  • National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET) — major technical union
  • NPR Labs
  • Society of Broadcast Engineers
  • Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Media periodicals and websites

British media

  • BroadcastNow — from Broadcast Magazine
  • ProgrammeNews — website listing British TV programming, subscription only

Canadian media

  • Broadcaster Magazine, Toronto

Journalism

  • American Journalism Review
  • Columbia Journalism Review
  • Editor & Publisher — newspaper industry
  • Romenesko — the Poynter Institute's weblog, gleanings from and about media
  • JournalismNet — using the Internet for research

Media

  • Hollywood Reporter
  • MediaWeek — media for marketing and advertising
  • Variety
  • Warren Communications News — Communications Daily and sister newsletters

Media technology

  • Broadcast Engineering
  • Electronic Design — design of things electronic
  • Spectrum — award-winning magazine from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Television Broadcast
  • TV Technology
  • Video Systems

Radio

  • Billboard — about the recording and radio industries
  • FMQB — Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report
  • M Street Journal — subscription only
  • Radio and Records
  • Radio Magazine — tech-heavy radio trade magazine
  • Radio World — tech-heavy trade tabloid

Television

  • Broadcasting & Cable Online
  • Television Week
  • TV Guide Online

Video programming and films

  • Animation World News
  • Doculink — site for documentary filmmakers
  • Filmmaker magazine
  • indieWIRE — site about independent filmmaking
  • KidScreen — magazine about children's programming
  • Real Screen — magazine about documentaries and nonfiction programming

Webcams

Public radio

  • KCRW, Santa Monica, Calif. Studio Cam
  • WQED-FM, Pittsburgh, Byham studio in Theater Square, downtown
  • WXDU-FM, Duke University, Durham, N.C., DJ Cam

Public TV

  • This Old House, Cambridge house site
  • WGBH headquarters construction, Brighton area of Boston
  • Dakotacams, including Mt. Rushmore, courtesy of South Dakota Public Broadcasting

Other countries

  • BBC, London Radio Studio 2 and other London sites

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