We are hiring! Please check out our post-doctoral researcher call!

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6/30 deadline

Great symposium on labor and the labor beat hosted by MIC Center at Rutgers. Pictured: Sarah Jaffe facilitating a great panel.

happening tomorrow!

New piece with David Elliot Berman in Tech Policy Press about how the impending end of the American Connectivity Program calls for a radical rethink of US internet policy.
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Our upcoming 5/2 on Rutgers campus! Check out the full lineup of folks, incl Sarah Jaffe Chenjerai Kumanyika
Todd Wolfson. Keynote by Chris Keyser REGISTER👇
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Happening tomorrow!

Tomorrow (4/10) at 12:15pm - join Media@Risk & MIC Center or a talk from Des Freedman of Goldsmiths, University of London - 'Capitalism and the Political Economy of Risk' bit.ly/3xmJLXa

Next week! Join #ASCMediaRisk & MIC Center for a colloquium from Des Freedman on capitalism and the political economy of risk at Annenberg School. He'll explore the ties between capitalism and problems facing media practitioners & audiences. Register here: bit.ly/3xmJLXa

Was honored to serve as a judge for this year's Izzy Awards. So many exemplars of courageous journalism -- they all are doing such vitally important work!

We have an incredible lineup of speakers at our 2024 seminar in Vienna, along w/a great crop of emerging scholars who will be joining us from around the🌎to discuss AI's promises & pitfalls for journalism, activism, & democracy. 👇
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You won't want to miss this book talk w/ Kate Wright Kate Wright on 4/11. Rare interviews and declassified docs from Trump's (& Michael Pack's) US Agency for Global Media abuse of power & mismanagement 2020-2021. Pack is back w/ 2024 visions.
Media at Risk cosponsoring
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Join us for a conference on the current state of labor journalism at Rutgers University on 5/2 Register below. Full agenda coming soon! tinyurl.com/4t5b24h2

Short parable on the need for local journalism: My wife and I live in a small town (~25,000 people) in Middlesex County, NJ, where we recently had a referendum on whether or not to increase the fire department budget by about 60% (🧵 continues)

Media companies cut thousands of jobs so far this year. They're not coming back. finance.yahoo.com/news/media-com… via Yahoo Finance

.Resolve Philly's Documenters program pays & trains Philadelphians to attend & take notes at public meetings. Making these meetings accessible is an important part of our democracy.

Be a part of this critical effort, attend the upcoming 1/31 orientation: ow.ly/PIQ150QvA1i.

Gannett reported just 10,000 employees in its annual report filed Thursday—down from 21,255 when it merged with GateHouse in 2019.

Happening at 5pm today! Come warm up in Annenberg's room 500.

Happening this week!
Cosponsored with Media@Risk
Food and drinks at 5pm, event at 5:30
Join us!

'It’s worth noting that U.S. investment in public media is a smaller percentage of GDP than in virtually any other major democracy in the world.' Rodney Benson

🛜 Really proud of our Pennsylvania Broadband Research (PBR) Institute team at MIC Center and Penn State Bellisario College

Victor Pickard Christopher Ali David Elliot Berman @[email protected] Pawel Popiel PSU Bellisario COMM Grad Ed Annenberg School