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  1. Better This World: POV Film Examines Plot Behind a Protest

    September 6, 2011

    By Hari SreenivasanThe ITVS-funded doc Better this World airs Tuesday, September 6 on POV. PBS NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan, who regularly moderates live chats on BTB,  profiles Katie Galloway's and Kelly Duane de la Vega's acclaimed film. This post first appeared on Hari's daily news blog, The Rundown. "Better this World" is the name of a film airing on…

  2. Murdoch Meltdown Solidifies the Value of Public Media

    September 5, 2011

    Sally Jo Fifer calls on public media leaders to put “new technology to work for a public interest free from the gravity of profit.”Information is valuable. It’s valuable to those of us working in public media and it’s valuable to Rupert Murdoch, who started out owning a single Australian afternoon tabloid newspaper and ended up building the $33 billion News…

  3. Now on Indies Showcase: A Panther in Africa

    September 2, 2011

    The documentary by filmmaker Aaron Matthews is streaming free until Sunday, September 4 as part of ITVS's Indies Showcase. Pete O'Neal founded the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panthers before leaving America for Tanzania, where he has lived in exile for over 30 years. As he struggles to reconcile his future and the past, O'Neal has committed his life to…

  4. Filmmaker Johnny Symons on Public Media

    August 31, 2011

    Filmmaker Johnny Symons dropped by ITVS earlier this year and described his experience working with the organization as an independent producer of Public Media. His documentary Daddy & Papa is currently streaming free as part of ITVS's Indies Showcase.

  5. The FCC Report on Information Needs of Communities: A Moment of Truth, Part II

    August 29, 2011

    Sally Jo Fifer explores how the FCC’s latest report on media and technology affects ITVS, independent producers, and the public media ecosystem.In Part One of this post, I talked about the Federal Communication Commission’s significant report on the impact of technology on the media landscape, ending with the question: What should we do?  And how does…

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