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InvestigateNY
Infrastructure Project

InvestigateNY will  protect and inform New Yorkers by telling unique and provocative stories with journalistic integrity and skill.

We are a regional, non-profit  investigative journalism center, soon to partner with WNET-TV (PBS in NY) and other partners. We are the only such center in New York State providing superior investigative reporting for the television, radio, print and digital media in the New York region.
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Women Aloud Videoblogging for Empowerment (WAVE)
Infrastructure Project
WAVE's mission is to encourage women around India to voice their perspectives on social change using a shared digital platform and collectively strive for positive change.
Maine Public Interest News Service
Infrastructure Project
Using Radio and Online News Media to Build the Social Change Movement in Maine.
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MediaWire: Aggregating and Distributing Independent Media With New Media Tools
Infrastructure Project
MediaWire is showcasing the first-rate journalism produced by the country's leading independent media outlets, bringing their work to larger audiences and building the influence of their journalism through new media tools and distribution opportunities. This project is also highly beneficial to organizations looking to inform, engage and activate their constituencies.
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Database, Survey & SUMMIT of Women’s Social Justice Media Organizations
Infrastructure Project
From Issues for Your Tissues radio to Make/Shift magazine 300+ women centered social justice media outlets produce blogs, radio shows, newspapers, TV shows, etc on a regular basis throughout the US.  Media Equity Collaborative is coalescing these isolated groups via a survey and a SUMMIT (July 16) to prioritize program needs, strategize networks and build a sustainable fund to ensure stability and growth for this vastly under resourced community.
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Open Video Infrastructure for Democratizing Media: Miro and our Social Programs
Infrastructure Project

As TV becomes online video, there is an opportunity to put control in the hands of the creators.  The large media companies are trying to repeat massive centralization with gatekeepers.  We make democratic media infrastructure called Miro, an open source HD video player, with over 7 million downloads globally.

With this new phase of our project, we want to directly address the needs of communities in developing countries by making video sharable in low bandwidth conditions, rich with subtitles, and synchronized with any low cost mobile device. 

New Business Model for Community Journalism
Infrastructure Project
This groundbreaking project is building local wireless Internet infrastructure and services that expand Internet access in underserved areas and simultaneously supports community journalism.
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Mapping the Media Arts Field
Infrastructure Project
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) requests funding to analyze the data and publish the key findings from our Mapping the Media Arts Field survey.  This comprehensive national census measures the field’s economic, community, and creative indicators and will live as a searchable database on NAMAC’s website.  Mapping the Field demonstrates the value of the media arts and public media fields and the important role they plan in the free flow of information in our society.
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Community News Production Institute (CNPI)
Infrastructure Project
The Community News Production Institute (CNPI) is a People's Production House program that trains members of grassroots organizations to make media about the communities they come from and to get their stories broadcast over the air and on the Internet.
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