New American Media Youth Internships

Heads up all you future Moyers’, Woodwards and Bernsteins. If you’re a young reporter or student looking for ways to expand your skills then the New American Media/Youth Outlook intern program could be right up your alley.

With over 1200 publications under it’s umbrella, NAM is the largest collaboration of ethnic and community newspapers in the country. They’re youth program is known for producing quality multimedia teams and reporters with not just the hard skills to step into any newsroom but also a community first, grassroots media outlook that’s crucial in today’s new media landscape.
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2009 DIY Book Festival Early Deadline Approaching

Attention all you indie authors, publishers and literary types. The Annual DIY Book fair is on it’s way and the deadline for early registration is rolling around in a few weeks. The DIY fair is the largest independent publishing event in the country and it’s author’s regularly go on to huge things after winning, including somewhat ironically, major book publishing deals. Check out the details below and go to www.diyconvention.com for the whole scoop.

Good Luck!

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Social Media Social Action Training

So the trainings we’ve been doing over the last few months with the Public Media Collaborative have become increasingly popular with area nonprofits and media organizations. Attendees have stated how much they enjoyed the sessions and how important these low cost trainings are for organizations doing important work but without the funding to hire full time social medial staff.

So we’re happy to announce the next round of trainings will be taking place Oct 23 & 24, 2009 at Tech/Liminal, 268 14th Street, Oakland, CA. Read more