Category:Media

"We can't have a democracy as we know it without a free press...."

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Big Picture Media

https://greenpolicy360.net/w/BigPicture_Media

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GreenPolicy360 Media Kit

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Media_Announcements

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2025

Statement from Katherine Maher, NPR President & CEO, on Closure of Corporation for Public Broadcasting

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g-s1-80660/statement-from-katherine-maher-npr-president-ceo-on-closure-of-corporation-for-public-broadcasting

WASHINGTON, D.C. — August 1, 2025 — Today, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced that it will begin a "wind-down of its operations" and ultimate full operational closure following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee's FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill.

In response, Katherine Maher, President & CEO of NPR, issued the following statement:

"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has been a cornerstone of public broadcasting in the United States for more than half a century. It has served as a vital source of funding for local stations, a champion of educational and cultural programming, and a bulwark for independent journalism — enabling organizations like ours to deliver essential news and culture across the nation.

CPB upheld the core values of the Public Broadcasting Act, including support for diverse voices, promotion of excellence and creative risk, and advancing service for the unserved and underserved. It empowered countless journalists, producers, and educators to create programming that has enriched lives, fostered understanding, and held power accountable. The ripple effects of this closure will be felt across every public media organization and, more importantly, in every community across the country that relies on public broadcasting...

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2024

As the media world experiences the shocks of cyber-disruptions and information technology cutting across global networks delivering New Media, Social Media, Shock Media and Dis- and Mis-info, we recall an old-timer who believed in story telling, terse and vivid sentences, and writing with a wooden pencil.

This would be Hemingway.

A Hemingway-esque way, a simpler way of seeing, remembering, and telling tales in the midst of turbulence would be a welcome lesson to recall in 2024.

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Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data

- Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
- Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
- Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information
- Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
- Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
- Mass media, all means of mass information and communication
- Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
- New media, a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology
- News media, mass media focused on communicating news
- Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
- Published media, any media made available to the public
- Recording medium, devices used to store information
- Social media, media disseminated through social interactions