The appetite for a “public service” approach is strong but the on-the-ground challenges in newsrooms are real Report for America has grown rapidly. The program—which places emerging journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities—went from 13 corps members in 2018-19, to 59 in 2019-20 to 250 in 2020-21 (starting in June). […]
Article · March 10, 2020 by Steven Waldman
As senior adviser to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Steven Waldman was the lead author of “Information Needs of Communities: the Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age.” Below, Waldman writes about a report recently released by the Foundation Center—and supported by Knight Foundation—on the growth in foundation funding for media. Photo credit: Flickr user […]
Article · November 18, 2013 by Steven Waldman
Steven Waldman was Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the FCC and the lead author of the report “Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age.” He is now Visiting Senior Media Policy Scholar at the Columbia Journalism School. The following is crossposted from Poytner. Steven Waldman With little fanfare, the Federal […]
Article · December 14, 2011 by Steven Waldman
Steven Waldman was Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the FCC and the lead author of the report “Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age.” He is now Visiting Senior Media Policy Scholar at the Columbia Journalism School. The following is crossposted. During the FCC’s consideration of the Comcast-NBC merger, Comcast […]
Article · December 7, 2011 by Steven Waldman
Earlier this month, Knight Foundation announced several new efforts to help ensure that important public policy recommendations in the FCC’s Information Needs report become fully realized. Included was the appointment of Steven Waldman, the report’s lead author, as a senior media policy scholar at Columbia University. Today, Waldman writes about other exciting developments regarding the […]
Article · October 27, 2011 by Steven Waldman