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The Media Consortium — Seeking Immigration Blogger — application deadline July 15

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The pay for this gig isn’t great, but might be a good part-time opportunity for someone. Apply fast – they’re looking to fill the position by July 26!
-mia

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TMC is searching for a blogger that can quickly take the reins on the Weekly Diaspora. The ideal candidate has experience writing about immigration issues with clarity and verve. They are also excellent at meeting firm weekly deadlines and have a love of independent media.

I’ve included a job description for the position below. Please pass this information on to individuals that might be a good fit. Since our turnaround time is tight, cover letters, resumés and references for this part-time position must be emailed to erin@themediaconsortium.com by COB on Friday, July 15.

*Women and people of color are especially encouraged to apply. The ideal starting date for this position is July 26.

Thanks, Erin

*Job Description*

*Where:* Telecommute

*Status:* Freelance blogger/buzz-builder for “Weekly” news summary blogs, Contract is 3 months with option to renew.

*Who:* The Media Consortium

*Compensation:* Weekly stipend of $150 for approx. 10 hours/week ($15/hour)

The Media Consortium, a network of leading progressive independent journalism organizations, announces a freelance blogging and promotions position for a web and independent media savvy journalist with strong background in immigration and immigration reform.

This work is a key component of The Media Consortium’s MediaWire project–an aggregation and distribution initiative intended to spotlight, build traffic and generate buzz for Media Consortium members’reporting on the nation’s most critical issues including health care, immigration and the economy. For background on the project, visit www.themediaconsortium.org.

Media Consortium bloggers write weekly syndicated “best of” roundups highlighting exemplary content from our members. Blog posts will be based on content aggregated from the economy, environment, health care, immigration feeds aggregated on Delicious. Opportunities for longer, feature-length articles may arise later on. Articles and blog posts written by Media Consortium bloggers are featured in leading blogs and progressive journalism outlets across the country.

*Job requirements include:*

* Writing one weekly blog of 800-1000 words that rounds up and key stories from Media Consortium members for syndication across the net.

* Using social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter to draw attention to weekly posts/blog.

* Helping identify online communities and sites to promote and place blog posts.

* Joining scheduled calls with Media Consortium staff to plan outreach and coverage.

*Qualifications:

* At least 2 years experience as an issue-based or political blogger or reporter

* Familiarity with progressive media organizations and the political/issue-based blogging community.

* Comfortable with the concept of adding multimedia elements to reporting.

* Self-starter and team player with a sense of humor.

*Note that this is a contract position. Send a cover letter, resume, and links to your work to: erin@themediaconsortium.com. No phone calls please. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.*

Erin Polgreen

Senior Program Associate
The Media Consortium
erin@themediaconsortium.com
Twitter: @tmcmedia / @erinpolgreen
Skype: ErinPolgreen
Cell: 312.841.055

Freelance Cafe East

Now accepting applications for the UnionDocs Collaborative for 2010-2011

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Hey folks. Very cool opportunity for multimedia folks. Details below.
-mia

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The UnionDocs Collaborative (UDC) is a one to two-year program for twelve emerging media producers. It is both a rigorous platform for exploring contemporary approaches to the documentary arts and a process for developing an innovative group project. The program focuses on providing what we believe are the most effective educational resources for individuals at the beginning of their careers.

This year, two AIR members were a part of the program: Tina Antolini (currently a producer for State of the ReUnion) and Shawn Wen (currently an intern at This American Life). They collaboratively produced pieces with 10 other participants from a wide variety of backgrounds: social justice filmmaking, 16mm film production, a PhD candidate from Portugal focusing on "Interactive Documentary", theater, photography and other fields. This year, the collaborative's work has been shown at MoMA in New York City and the Harvard Film Archive, as well as other venues.
Right now, we're accepting applications for our 2010-2011 program. We are looking for both resident and non-resident collaborative members to begin this fall. The program will consist of master classes with visiting filmmakers, audio producers, artists, and professors, in addition to producing a year-long project.
For an overview of the program, please visit: http://www.uniondocs.org/uniondocs-collaborative/

And feel free to pass this along to anyone who you think may be interested. 

And if you have any questions, feel free to email me off-list.
Thanks all! 
Kara 
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Kara Oehler

Program Director
UnionDocs Collaborative
617.909.7782

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Sound Travels Intensive Aug 10-13, Toronto

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Cool conference for sound nuts. Details below.
-mia

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NAISA launches the second annual SOUND TRAVELS INTENSIVE
August 10 – 13, 2010, $150 registration fee (note registration fee
also includes a free Sound Travels concert pass)

The Sound Travels Intensive is an opportunity for artists from across
Canada and around the world to create and present new work in Toronto,
exchange ideas with others, and hone electroacoustic skills with the
guidance of a diverse group of world-renowned instructors. Four
intense days of workshop sessions, private instruction and creative
activity culminate in a public concert presentation at Toronto's
Artscape Wychwood Barns. Participants must apply by Thursday July 30
at 12 noon Toronto time to be eligible for a limited number of
scholarship and billeting possibilities.

On-line registration www.naisa.ca/eshops/eintensive.php

Intensive Instructors:

Marcelle Deschênes – composition and multimedia: A celebrated figure
in the development of electroacoustic music and art, Marcelle
Deschênes is a composer, multimedia artist, pianist and teacher. Her
oeuvre is important not only for its pioneering nature, but also its
diversity: multimedia performances, photography, video art;
instrumental, mixed, acousmatic and application music; radio art,
installation art, and animation/creation for non-musicians. Over the
past 35 years she has concentrated primarily on the development of new
forms of artistic expression that integrate music, new technologies,
performing and visual arts and multi-disciplinary teamwork.

Satoshi Morita – experimental recording and transducers: Berlin-based
sound artist Satoshi Morita deals with issues of inter-sensory sonic
experience. His sonic object "Sound Capsule" received an honorary
mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2008 and has been exhibited
internationally (currently at the Science Gallery in Dublin,
Ireland). At the Sound Travels Intensive, Morita will deal with the
use of transducers, and experimental field recording techniques.

David Ogborn – interaction and programming: David Ogborn is the
President of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and teaches
digital audio and physical computing at McMaster University, where he
also directs the Cybernetic Orchestra. Recent artistic highlights
include Metropolis (live electronics + silent film), Opera On The
Rocks (opera with live electronics and video) and Waterfall (a
collaboratively-produced interactive video sculpture at the 2010
Olympic Games).

Eldad Tsabary – electroacoustic ear-training: Eldad Tsabary is a
professor of electroacoustic music at Concordia University in
Montreal, where for the past five years he has been developing a new
aural training method for electroacoustics, based on perceptual and
educational research. His compositions have received prizes and
mentions in several international competitions including Bourges,
Miniaturas Electroacousitcs, ZKM, Harbourfront, and others. Recent
artistic highlights include From My Home to Your Home (a telematic
duet with David Eagle for Deep Wireless 2010), Tikkun Nefesh for
trombone and electronics (commissioned by trombonist Haim Avitsur),
and Homo Religiosus (an interreligious piece containing prayers and
interviews from five places of worship). Eldad is the Treasurer of the
Canadian Electroacoustic Community.

Darren Copeland – sound recording and transformation: Darren Copeland
is a soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer and concert
producer. He has studied electroacoustic composition under Barry Truax
(Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Jonty Harrison (University of
Birmingham). His concert works have received mentions in competitions
(Vancouver New Music, Luigi Russolo, Hungarian Radio, La Muse en
Circuit, and Phonurgia Nova) and appeared on compilation CD releases
(Storm of Drones, Radius #3, DISContact I & II, Lieu – Non Lieu, and
Soundscape Vancouver). The CDs Rendu Visible and audio DVD Perdu et
retrouvé, devoted to his work, are available on the empreintes
DIGITALes label.

Rob Cruickshank – DIY electronics and circuit-bending: Rob Cruickshank
is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose works often include
custom electronics. He has developed many workshops to assist artists
with learning technology, and is the creator of the NAISAtron
instrument kit for New Adventures in Sound Art. He plays in the audio/
visual collective i/o media and is a long-time member of the Board of
Directors of InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre. Recently he
has been working with MusicWorks magazine to create a series of DIY
articles.

www.naisa.ca/eshops/eintensive.php
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NAISA Inquiries & general information:

Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Managing Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
Address: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON
M6G 4C7
Tel 416 652 5115
www.naisa.ca

Events, Freelance Cafe West

When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things book reading, July 6, 6pm, SF

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Hey folks. One of our own has just released a book – please come out in support at her next reading. Details below!
-mia

Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things

July 6th
Book Passage in SF’s Ferry Building
6 pm

http://www.bookpassage.com/event_detailed.php?id=3353


An eye-opening exposé of America’s torture regime

Myths about torture abound: Waterboarding is the worst we’ve done. The soldiers were hardened professionals. All Americans now believe that what we did was wrong. Torture is now a thing of the past. Journalist Justine Sharrock’s reporting reveals a huge chasm between what has made headlines and what has actually happened. She traveled around the country, talking to the young, low-ranking soldiers that watched our prisoners, documenting what it feels like to torture someone and discovering how many residents of small town America think we should have done a lot more torture.

Tortured goes behind the scenes of America’s torture program through the personal stories of four American soldiers who were on the frontlines of the “war on terror,” including the Abu Ghraib whistleblower. They reveal how their orders came from the top with assurances that those orders were legal and how their experiences left them emotionally scarred and suffering a profound sense of betrayal by the very government for which they fought.

  • Based on the firsthand accounts of young, working-class soldiers who were forced to carry out orders crafted by officers, politicians, and government lawyers who have never answered for their actions
  • The Department of Justice may still launch an investigation into torture under Bush—and Sharrock argues it must be done
  • Shows how it feels to torture, and how people back home reacted to their revelations

If reading Tortured doesn’t make you angry, nothing America does to tarnish its reputation as a beacon of fairness and freedom ever will.

You can pre-order it from Amazon here or at your local indie bookstore here

Wiley, June 2010, ISBN: 978-0-470-45403-9

You can also preview it through Google

Freelance Cafe East, Gigs

Far-flung producers sought for quick turn-around audio demo project

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Anyone traveling at the moment and can handle this request from Radio Lab? Or know someone who can? Details below.
-mia

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Radiolab is looking for a few folks to help us with a demonstration of a study.

We're seeking reporters in Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East who are either FROM that region (and sound like it) or can work with a local collaborator. (We've already got Europe and Australia covered.) Must have good equipment (i.e. flash recorder and shotgun) and be able to upload tape to an FTP by the end of the week. Should be an hour of recording plus transfer/upload time. We'll pay $150.

Contact me today and include your location and the recording equipment you'd use. Write to EHorne@wnyc.org.

Thanks!

Ellen

Events, Freelance Cafe West

next FC gathering at Beer Revolution, 7/24, 6:30pm Oakland

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Join Freelance Cafe For A Beer Revolution Next Thursday

Please join the Freelance Cafe on June 24 in celebrating the 2010 summer with a relaxing social event at Beer Revolution in Oakland. We'll toast to long, warm nights, meeting our deadlines, and any exciting new projects we're working on. 

Located in Old Oakland, one of our favorite neighborhood districts, Beer Revolution features outdoor seating, a fine craft beer selection, and reasonable prices. Since there's no food menu, feel free to bring your own munchies. Also, the spot is surrounded by restaurants. A vegan soul eatery next door, Souley Vegan, delivers orders right to your table upon request (yay!). Beer Revolution is located at 464 3rd Street (between Washington St & Broadway). The 12th Street BART station is but a stone's throw away.

Check them out at: www.beer-revolution.com

See you at 6:30 p.m.!

For additional information, please contact Jennifer Inez Ward at 510.393,7544 or jennifer.wrd@gmail.com

Freelance Cafe West

Short-term CWA jobs available now

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Hey all. This from the Freelance Media Workers Guild – earn a few extra bucks for journalism-type work. Details below.
-mia

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CWA is seeking people to do short-term organizing work in San

Francisco — particularly, folks conversant in Tagalog. The work is a
good fit for anyone with journalism skills and offers quite decent
pay.

It involves walking around UCSF campuses, finding offices and
departments, locating specific people and collecting their
signatures… If you've done any reporting, much of this will feel
really familiar.

Hours are pretty flexible, so you can work in freelance jobs. Also,
they will give you an orientation and some basic training. Give it a try,
and if it feels comfortable to you, you'll be asked to make a two-week
commitment.

Questions? Contact John Dugan at jdugan@cwa-union.org.

Kind regards,
Rebecca Rosen Lum
Unit Chair, Guild Freelancers
rrosenlum@gmail.com

Freelance Cafe East, Freelance Cafe West, Gigs

new podcast looking for pieces on architecture, urban planning

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Interesting opportunity from the Chicago Architecture Foundation – they're starting a podcast and are looking for stories. Pay is decent, content is pretty cool. Details below. -Mia

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One Nation Call Outs

The Chicago Architecture Foundation and radio host & producer Edward Lifson are developing and producing an ongoing weekly web and radio broadcast program tentatively titled One Nation, Under Construction. The program is about why the United States man-made environment looks the ways it does, and how that affects a person's life. It will engage people in learning the stories behind the building—conceptual and physical—of America’s spaces, places, and structures. Each week, the show will address a humanities theme through exploration of architecture, infrastructure, urban history, planning, and landscape. We are looking for producers of compelling, passionate audio stories about the built / man-made environment for the following segments:

O Pioneers! Redux? A commissioned story about the following: young people are emptying out of the center of the US. In states such as Nebraska and Kansas, only the very elderly remain as young people seek opportunity elsewhere. How is this different from the pioneer days? A few elderly guests from Nebraska, the Dakotas, Kansas discuss why they’re staying in their homes and how they have witnessed change in the rural US…

Dream House A commissioned story about the following: a family who bought what they thought would be their dream house, but it turned out to be a disaster. The dream house may be on the extreme fringe of the suburbs, in the city, etc. The story will surprise us, make us laugh, and connect humanities-based ideas about sprawl, cities, home.

Mortgage Crisis A commissioned story about the following: many people have recently lost their homes in the mortgage crisis. In this segment a diverse group of people come together to discuss the fantasies and realities of home ownership and how the mortgage crisis has affected them. The group may include: a Mexican-American family, a retired schoolteacher, a real estate agent, a firefighter, etc.

Please send your ideas, your pitches for any or all segments along with a sample of your work.

Each segment will be 4-6 minutes and $400-$600 compensation, dependent on production process.

Send all questions and pitches to Alyssa Kilroy: akilroy@architecture.org

Musings

transition to freelancecafe.org

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Thank you all so much for the great feedback on freelancecafe.org – I really appreciate it. So what I’m hearing is that you like the email subscription option and you’re much more likely to read an email than check an RSS feed. Many of you would like a daily summary of the posts, and on the whole, you think the website looks pretty good. Excellent! So I’m ready to make the leap.

Here’s how this is going to work. I don’t want to lose any of you, so I’m going to sign you all up for the email subscriptions myself. I’ll start with the folks who sent feedback and I’ll wait a week or so to make sure everything is working properly before I start adding the rest of you. Once I add your name to the subscribers list, you’ll get an email that looks like this:

Click on the link and you should be good to go. Once I see that you’ve subscribed, I’ll take you off the regular email list so you don’t get duplicate emails. Should you decide that the email subscription is not for you, you can unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of any email you receive from Freelance Cafe. Oh, and the email subscription service is automatically a daily digest. It basically takes all the posts from that day and sends them out in email form. I can’t figure out how to change the frequency, so if you want more regular updates, just check the website itself.

Should you wish to comment or ask a question about any of the posts, I encourage you to click through to the site and write your comments there. I believe any replies to the subscription emails will come to me, but I’d love to generate a bit more conversation on the site itself.

As always, please continue to forward on any relevant events, workshops, award/fellowship/job opportunities, resources, anything you’d like to share with your fellow freelancers. I absolutely depend on you all to keep this thing going. And please continue to send your feedback on the site itself. I really appreciate any advice/suggestions/etc..

Finally, in addition to the email subscription, all posts are forwarded to FC on Twitter and Facebook. So follow us, friend us, help spread the word. FC has gone all social media on your ass. 🙂

Thanks guys. Hope you like the new digs.

Freelance Cafe East, Gigs

multiple, part-time AP positions available at WNYC’s The Takeaway

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This is an exciting new show, with lots of support from lots of big players. I believe you have to be in NYC for these gigs, but you never know. Details below! -mia

http://www.thetakeaway.org/
http://www.wnyc.org/jobs/listings/

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GENERAL SUMMARY
Co-producers WNYC and PRI — in collaboration with the BBC World Service, The New York Times, and WGBH Boston television and radio — are reinvigorating morning drive. The Takeaway is a new multi-platform national morning drive news program that is creating a new model for morning news and public broadcasting in the 21st century. The show is rooted in the values public radio is best known for — highly credible journalism, depth and context — but breaks out from the medium’s conventionally packaged sound. The project features live conversation, reporters in locations around the world, a cast of regular contributors, audience interaction, a website and distributed content, and video. The show is live, delivering national and international news and cultural stories through a conversational and unprecedented personality-driven format.

About the position:

The Assistant Producers will be responsible for operating all broadcast audio equipment associated with the live production of the show. The hires will be instrumental in maneuvering the fast-paced and high-intensity environment of a live national radio show. Under the direction of the Technical Director, the assistant producers will play a significant role in the sound and technical aspects of the show. Much of the work on the program will take place during early morning hours.

Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Digital editing of recorded radio segments for use in live broadcast
• Podcast production
• News/Music/Television editing for broadcast
• Assist producers with digital audio production
• Assist with show guests/live production of the show under supervision of Director and Line Producer
• Comply with all WNYC/WQXR and show policies and guidelines
• This position requires use of a computer, telephone and other office and/or broadcast equipment; ability to communicate effectively through a variety of methods
• Ability to work extended hours as needed
• Work on other special projects and other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree required
• Minimum of 1-2 years of Journalism/Media/News background strongly preferred
• Must be able to successfully problem-solve and multi-task under pressure of live broadcast
• Digital audio editing experience required; Cool Edit/Audacity, Easy Track and/or DAVID experience, ProTools, Audition, Ableton, others accepted
• Knowledge of different styles of radio programming required
• Strong audio editing skills required
• Practical knowledge of computers, computer systems, and associated audio interfaces
• Requires ability to take direction and complete tasks as assigned within specified timeframes
• Ability to meet objectives under (often intense) deadline pressure required
• Excellent communication skills—both oral and written—with an impressive reputation for building and maintaining relationships with people at all levels of an organization, across a diverse range of cultural, generational, ethnic, racial, educational and social backgrounds

• Requires the intellectual and emotional depth, maturity, self-confidence and interpersonal skills to work effectively and/or interact with the other Takeaway staff, executives at WNYC, colleagues, vendors and guests as needed

To apply for this opportunity, please submit a cover letter, salary requirements and resume online to jobs@wnyc.org with "P/T Assistant Prod, TT" and your last name in the subject line.

WNYC must receive all information requested in order to consider your candidacy.

Qualified candidates only please. No calls, no third-party submissions.

Due to the high volume of submissions, we are able to respond only to the candidates selected for interview. We appreciate your interest in employment with WNYC.

WNYC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites and encourages qualified applicants from all walks of life.