Media Impact Funders is a membership organization that advances the work of a broad range of funders committed to effective use and support of media in the public interest.
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Looking forward to the Journalism Funders Convening where I will join Eloy Ortiz Oakley of College Futures Foundation on a panel discussing the backlash against racial equity, moderated by Lea Trusty of the Democracy Fund. #jFunders24
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Presented by The Redford Center & DCEFF - Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital Join directors Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris, former West Virginia State Health Officer Dr. Ayne Amjad, Professor of Environmental Ethics Cara Greene, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Community Involvement Coordinator Lisa Trakis for a conversation about working with rural Appalachian communities and Impossible Town, a film that chronicles Dr. Amjad’s audacious plan to relocate a southern WV community that has been exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/earc_A65
We're 1️⃣ week away from #JFunders24! 🎉 Here's a look at our main stage plenary on redefining documentary storytelling, moderated by ITVS's president and CEO Carrie Lozano, featuring documentary filmmakers Lucas Guilkey and JoeBill Muñoz. Together, they'll explore ITVS's groundbreaking research, sparked by concerns about sensationalized "true crime" content on streaming platforms and the subsequent deeper conversations within the documentary community about power dynamics, authorship, and journalistic ethics. Secure your seat at #JFunders24 or grab a livestream ticket today: https://lnkd.in/eutc-Qkv
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We’re thrilled to share that we’ve rebranded! Meet Chicken & Egg Films, complete with a new visual identity, website, expression of our mission and vision, and beyond. But wait—does this mean we’re a whole different organization? Absolutely not. And yet, we took on this effort for a reason. It’s time to reintroduce ourselves to our community as the radically tender champions for women and gender-expansive filmmakers that we proudly are. We also hope that our brand evolution invites more and more people into our work and our mission—more filmmakers who will see themselves and feel welcome, more industry who recognize the need for care and disruption in our ecosystem, and more partners and funders who value our mission as critical and want to play a part in it. Learn more about our rebranding effort and what’s changed in this blog post (bit.ly/CEfilms) written by CEO Jenni Wolfson. Also, while you’re there, feel free to peruse our brand spankin’ new website, chickeneggfilms.org. Thanks as always for your support. Cheers, The Chicken & Egg Films team
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The Fund continues our investments in how NC gets the news and information we need to thrive with an additional $535,000 to 31 organizations. I'm particularly proud that we're: - Welcoming new partners and adding support for existing ones - Moving urgent funding to teams serving in Western NC - Investing $1.16 million total in 2024 More on the people and organizations we're supporting, the work Jagmeet Mac and I are doing, in the full announcement.
🆕Today, the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund announced $535,000 in new grants to 31 local news and community organizations. On the heels of Hurricane Helene and days before early voting begins in North Carolina, we’re sharing expanded support for organizations in Western NC, along with a statewide network of trusted communicators. This latest round of grants will provide grant recipients with flexible funding to best meet their communities’ needs, from providing life-saving information during the emergency response to helping people across the state navigate their local elections. A quarter of the organizations awarded in this grant cycle are based in or have a local reporter in Western North Carolina. We’re proud to support trusted communicators across the state who drive understanding and share essential information in this moment and beyond. Read the announcement to learn more about our latest cohort and how they ensure their communities can find, trust, and use the information they need to make decisions impacting their daily lives: https://lnkd.in/eJenYMZe
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Free idea for climate funders: if you’re giving a grant to a major news org for climate reporting, a condition of that grant should be that said paper’s internal marketing studio doesn’t make advertorials for fossil fuel companies. Why? Peer-reviewed research indicates that *at most* 1 in 3 people can differentiate between editorial and advertorial, which means fossil advertorials directly undermine climate reporting (and thus directly erode the impact of your grant). Lots of data and background research here: https://lnkd.in/dFgkSKAe
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Looking forward to sharing more about the California Truth & Healing process and how the story we tell about the work is just as important as the work itself—especially when we are reframing the dominant narrative around Native people. If we can't find ways to make ourselves more visible on our terms, we will continue to struggle as we seek to catalyze large-scale change that addresses the unique nuances of a history of survival for California Native Americans. We must seize opportunities to bring others along to better understand our communities' strengths, struggles and hopes for a better future--authentic partnership and support of Native peoples and issues requires that robust understanding as well as a lifelong commitment to listen, learn and adjust as we continue to reclaim space in the lands our ancestors left for us.
📣 JFunders24 is less than 2️⃣ weeks away! Here's a look at our closing plenary, moderated by KQED's Mina Kim, featuring Jake Kornbluth, Christina Snider-Ashtari, and Elena Chavez Quezada. Together, they'll take the main stage to discuss a documentary project of the California Truth & Healing Council—established by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to reexamine and strengthen relations between the state of California and Native Americans. The documentary aims to educate and engage wider audiences about the diverse histories and nuances of California Indian Country, all while highlighting the importance of reversing cultural erasure. Grab your seat at #JFunders24 today: https://lnkd.in/eutc-Qkv
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Nonprofit and newsroom leader who builds teams and delivers impactful journalism and storytelling.
As someone who’s been working in local journalism for two decades plus, I’m excited to add my voice and insights as to what can be accomplished when vision, talent, leadership and resources come together. I’ll be on a panel at #JFunders24 and am really looking forward to being in community with people who value #journalism …or who might have questions on what it’s really like to lead a newsroom. Can’t wait to meet a whole bunch of people and bonus: it’s being held at KQED and, the agenda includes a performance by SFJAZZ Collective. Yes, yes, yes please.
The final agenda for #JFunders24 is here! Get ready for two days of top-notch programming, collaborative sessions, and networking opportunities with fellow journalism funders 🤝 Check out the agenda below and start planning your attendance today. We can’t wait to see you there! https://lnkd.in/ehbS2_-F
📣 JFunders24 is less than 2️⃣ weeks away! Here's a look at our closing plenary, moderated by KQED's Mina Kim, featuring Jake Kornbluth, Christina Snider-Ashtari, and Elena Chavez Quezada. Together, they'll take the main stage to discuss a documentary project of the California Truth & Healing Council—established by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to reexamine and strengthen relations between the state of California and Native Americans. The documentary aims to educate and engage wider audiences about the diverse histories and nuances of California Indian Country, all while highlighting the importance of reversing cultural erasure. Grab your seat at #JFunders24 today: https://lnkd.in/eutc-Qkv
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I am deeply thankful and humbled by the work being done by public broadcasting station staff, who help ensure that their neighbors living in the path of severe weather and emergencies have the information they need to stay safe. Even when folks evacuate for safer ground, station staff stay close, to tend to the information needs at home. Digital networks can be fickle and broadcast remains the number one source of public safety information. Keep those hand crank radios close!
One thing that’s become undeniable in the wake of Helene: public radio is a singular news and information lifeline in the first 48 hours+ of major disasters. When everything else goes down—power, cell service, internet—the one thing people can count on is the broadcast signal. I’ve heard countless stories from WNC where folks had Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) blasting from their car or battery powered radio for all their neighbors to hear, because it was the only source of information when they needed it most. It is a testament to the incredible work that BPR has done, and a call to action to all of us in public media. The narrative in news has been that broadcast is dying as money has flowed to digital start-ups, but this isn’t just a wake-up call—it’s a reminder of how critical local public radio is. We need more investment from initiatives like Press Forward to support stations, and we need to strengthen the infrastructure behind them. Public radio stations must band together, share resources, and build redundant systems with crisis plans that keep news/info flowing no matter what happens. We focus so much on content sharing, but we need to invest more in network building. Florida has done this, and other states too, but as the danger of climate disasters, and instability in the world has grown, it has become clear we need something bigger and more innovative than The Next Gen Warning System (NGWSGP), which has been and will remain essential. We need network wide redundancy in power and security, Starlink access that can be tapped into by stations and citizen journalists in rural communities to spread information rapidly, and regional wide plans for neighbor stations to take over the broadcast signal if things get too dire locally. We also need to distribute hand cranked, and battery powered radios free of charge to listeners/members and beyond. This is about more than just technology—it’s about our role in protecting and informing our communities when they need us most.