Freelance Cafe East, Workshops

Transom Story Workshop spring session, application deadline Jan 2

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I heard phenomenal things about this radio training workshop offered by the folks at Transom in Woods Hole, MA. The deadline for their spring session is Jan 2. If you want to learn radio storytelling with the best of the best, check this out!

-mia

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* NEW SHOW: Transom Story Workshop – Class of Fall 2011 *

For seven weeks, students from all over the US (plus Canada and Australia) came to Woods Hole to immerse themselves in radio. They were led by Rob Rosenthal, with help from all of us at Transom, WCAI, and visiting friends–Ira Glass, John Barth, Kelly McEvers, and many others. They were beginners when they arrived, some with no experience at all, but they all left with completed radio pieces good enough for broadcast on our station and nationally.

They lived and ate together. They worked on their stories until dawn. They actually looked different when they left, filled with new energy. They were a wonderful, coherent, lively group of people and we loved having them here on Cape Cod. Audiences are already benefitting from the stories they told. We hope you'll drop by Transom to read about their experiences, listen to some of their work, and ask them questions.

http://transom.org/?p=21825

And, by the way, the application deadline for the Spring Session (April-May 2012) is January 2nd.
http://transom.org/?p=21642

Drop over any time,

Jay Allison
Atlantic Public Media
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
www.transom.org

Freelance Cafe East, Gigs

ten fellowships and one job opportunity from the Metcalf Institute

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Two opportunities for journos from The Metcalf Institute. Details below!
-mia

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METCALF 14TH ANNUAL SCIENCE IMMERSION WORKSHOP FOR JOURNALISTS
Metcalf will award ten fellowships to professional journalists from across
the globe to attend the weeklong intensive program on impacts of global
change in coastal ecosystems at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography.
Fellows will learn about state-of-the-art research methods and topics in
environmental science. Applications must be postmarked by February 13,
2012. Details and the downloadable application form are available at
www.metcalfinstitute.org.

METCALF JOB OPENING
Metcalf Institute is accepting applications for the part-time position of
publicity coordinator. Details on candidate requirements and how to apply
are available through the University of Rhode Island's Human Resources
website at jobs.uri.edu. Search postings and view the posting for Marine
Research Specialist at the Graduate School of Oceanography.

Freelance Cafe West

27th Annual James Madison Freedom of Information Awards, Deadline Jan 6

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For Northern CA journos and community groups – award for advancement in freedom of info. Good luck!
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    27th Annual James Madison Freedom of Information Awards

     
    The James Madison Freedom of Information Awards recognize Northern
    California organizations and individuals who have made significant
    contributions to advance freedom of information and/or expression in the
    spirit of James Madison, the creative force behind the First Amendment.
     
    The awards are presented annually by the Freedom of Information
    Committee of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of
    Professional Journalists. There is no fee for submitting an entry. An
    awards ceremony and dinner is planned in mid-March, during National
    Freedom of Information Week, near Madison's birthday.
     
    Eligible for nomination are Northern California journalists, citizens,
    media organizations, or community groups who, during 2011, have defended
    public access to meetings, public records, or court proceedings or
    otherwise promoted the public's right to know, publish and speak freely
    about issues of public concern.
     
    Award Categories (awards may not be given in every category):
    Professional Journalist, Nonprofit Organization, Source/Whistle Blower,
    Career Achievement, Citizen, Public Official, Educator, Cartoonist,
    Legal Counsel, Student Journalist, Electronic Access, News Media.
     
    * The Professional Journalist and Student Journalist awards recognize
    journalists who have been involved in fights for access to records,
    meetings or court proceedings, who have made exceptional use of public
    records in their reporting or who have promoted education on FOI issues
    through stories, editorials or other advocacy.
     
    * The Public Official award is given to a governmental official who has
    demonstrated extraordinary commitment to keeping public records or
    meetings public, or otherwise has taken exemplary leadership on FOI or
    First Amendment issues.
     
    * The Beverly Kees Educator Award recognizes extraordinary efforts by
    educators to cultivate a devotion to the values of freedom of information.
     
    The Norwin S. Yoffie Career Achievement Award is named in honor of a
    stalwart supporter of the chapter's Freedom of Information Committee,
    who died in November 2000 after many years of distinguished service to
    SPJ and the cause of freedom of information.
     
    Click here to submit a nomination online.
    <https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGZva3dwUUVQNTVZVHdlN3hySlc2WGc6MA>
     
    Questions: Please contact Geoff King or Rebecca Bowe at
    spjnorcalfoi@gmail.com <mailto:spjnorcalfoi@gmail.com>.
    Please include "James Madison Awards Question" in the subject line.

Freelance Cafe East

NYS Technical Assistance Funding – Deadline Jan 1 + Cage Open Call – Deadline Mar 1

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For New York State arts and media folks: one grant and one call for submissions from free103point9. Deadlines Jan 1 and March 1. Details below.

-mia

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BOOK CELEBRATION AT ISSUE PROJECT ROOM IN BROOKLYN &

FUNDS FOR NEW YORK STATE MEDIA ARTISTS & ORGANIZATIONS

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Technical Assistance Applications due January 1.

Cage Centennial Open Call Proposals due March 1.
As 2011 draws to a close, free103point9 is gearing up for an exciting year ahead. 2012 will mark free103point9's 15th Anniversary. Stay tuned for the launch of the newly designed and expanded  Transmission Arts Archive, exciting updates about the opening of the Wave Farm Study Center, and new guidelines for the AIRtime Visiting Artist program.

In these final weeks of this calendar year, we hope that New York State Media Arts Organizations will pursue support from the Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund, and that Transmission Artists from around the globe will submit proposals for our John Cage Centennial project, presented in collaboration with the John Cage Trust.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Next Deadlines: January 1, 2012; April 1, 2012

The Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund is designed to strengthen media arts organizations in all regions of New York State by providing funds with which media arts organizations can hire outside consultants to address capacity and technology needs in three specific areas:

  • Organizational Development
  • Professional Development
  • Conferences and Convening

NEW for 2012 and 2013!

The Fund’s current funding priorities include:

  • Projects that deepen and expand organizational online public presence and capacities.
  • New approaches to organizational management, through strategic utilization of web-based tools and platforms.

The Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund is a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, adminstered by free103point9. The maximum grant award is $4,000.

Guidelines, Deadlines, and Application Instructions: www.free103point9.org

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The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is dedicated to preserving and expanding the rich and diverse cultural resources that are and will become the heritage of New York's citizens. NYSCA's Electronic Media and Film funding is dedicated to furthering artistic growth and public engagement in old and new technology. NYSCA has a long-standing commitment to creative exploration and exhibition in all aspects of the media arts – including a variety of activities that enable diverse constituents in the development, exhibition and appreciation of film, electronic media and sound as an art form.

The Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund was previously administered by Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY), who ended their granting programs this past July 2011. Two other previous ETC programs, Presentation Funds and Finishing Funds, will now be managed by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
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free103point9 and the John Cage Trust are pleased to announce:

120 Hours for John Cage

An open call for works celebrating Cage's radio compositions.

In conjunction with a staggering array of events celebrating the John Cage Centennial in 2012, we are pleased to announce an open call for proposals around Cage's compositions with, for, and about radio. Selected proposals will be broadcast on free103point9's FM radio station (WGXC 90.7-FM in upstate New York) and streamed online thoughout a month-long program September 2012.

Submissions are due on March 1, 2012, and may be made in three categories:

  • recordings of a specific Cage radio composition (old or new)
  • live performance of a specific Cage radio composition (presented remotely or on-site)
  • works in homage (original projects inspired by Cage's radio work.)

Click here for more info …

Pictured above: John Cage, San Francisco, 1969. Photo: James Klosty.

 

This email should be received by individuals who have expressed interest in free103point9 programs including: the Transmission Art Archive; WGXC 90.7-FM, creative and community radio in Greene and Columbia Counties; and the Distribution Regrant for New York State media artists.

Our mailing address is:

free103point9

5662 Route 23

Acra, NY 12405

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LA based freelancer needed for a half day this weekend

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Short gig for LA-based audio producer, this weekend. Details and contact info below.
-mia

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We're looking for someone to attend a conference for 2-4 hours in Los Angeles this Friday or Saturday. The pay is $250.00 and you'll get into the conference for free. It's health conference organized by Vision y Compromiso, an organization that trains Promotoras throughout California — really interesting work. Here's the website — http://www.visionycompromiso.org/. You may need google to translate the site.

It's being held at the LA Marriott Hotel & Convention Center at 5855 West Century Boulevard.


It'd be terrific if you speak Spanish too, but it's not necessary.

If you're interested, please contact me and I'll give more details.

Cheers!
Tena
NPR's Latino USA
Managing Editor/Senior Producer
trubio@futuromediagroup.org

Freelance Cafe East

get your film funded in 2012 – Announcing Documentary Journalism Fund

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Oh happy day! Info on a new fund to support documentary filmmakers below. Yay!
-mia

 

The Bertha BRITDOC Documentary Journalism Fund – for filmmakers from around the world working at the intersection of film and investigative journalism. For films that break the important stories of our time, exposing injustice, bringing attention to unreported issues and cameras into regions previously unseen. £250,000 a year for 3 years is available to filmmakers as a mixture of grants and investments. Soniya Kirpalani's We The People, about a miscarriage of justice against migrant workers in Dubai, is announced as the first production grant. Jess Search said, "This fund is urgently needed. Documentary is becoming an increasingly important medium for breaking stories which require long term investigation and the commitment to gather evidence and amplify voices. 'We The People' is just such a film and we are proud to be supporting it."

for more info
http://britdoc.org/real_funds/documentary_journalism_fund

The new Bertha BRITDOC Fund for Journalism is an international film fund dedicated to supporting long form feature documentaries of a journalistic nature.

We are looking for films that break the important stories of our time, expose injustice, bring attention to unreported issues and cameras into regions previously unseen.

This new fund recognises such films are often delicate and protracted, making them difficult to fund. With a mission to enable in-depth analysis of issues through long-form investigative filmmaking, we are particularly looking to work with filmmakers with a journalistic background or those who are collaborating with journalists.

It is key that the journalistic intent is embedded within the film itself rather than the film simply being about a journalist or journalistic institution.


Elements we can support:

  • In-depth research & development

  • Production funding for longitudinal investigations

  • Editorial support for long-form documentary structure

  • Hostile Environment Training

  • Emergency transportation

  • Legal Advice during production and post production

  • Legal advice for complex E&O policies

pdf iconBertha BRITDOC pressrelease FINAL.pdf

Events, Freelance Cafe East

Media Justice/Criminal Justice Mix & Mingle, NYC, 11/29, 6pm

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For you NYC folks – looks like an interesting event.
-mia

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MEDIA JUSTICE/CRIMINAL JUSTICE MIX & MINGLE

Where: Colors, 417 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10003

When: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 6-9PM

A networking event for criminal justice and media justice activists.

Appetizers provided.  Please forward to folks who you think would be interested in the mix & mingle.

Sponsored by: Thousand Kites, Center for Media Justice, and Prison Legal News

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grants available from the New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative, deadline Jan 27

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Great opportunity for innovative women in journalism from j-lab. Details below.
-mia

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http://www.newmediawomen.org/site/new_funding_for_women_media_entrepreneurs/

New Funding for Women Media Entrepreneurs

For release:            Contact: Jan Schaffer
Nov. 15, 2011         202-885-8100

Washington, D.C. – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University has been awarded $250,000 from the McCormick Foundation to fund eight innovative women-led news startups over the next two years.

Under the grant, eight winners (four in 2012 and four in 2013) will each be given an initial $12,000 to launch their ideas. The winners will receive an additional $2,000 in the second year if they match it with $2,000 from other sources.

The deadline for 2012 proposals is Jan. 27. See the proposal guidelines and apply here: http://www.newmediawomen.org/site/proposal_guidelines/

The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative is part of a unique effort to address issues of opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism.  To date, 14 projects have been funded since the program started in 2008. See them at www.newmediawomen.org.

Next year’s awardees will be the first group required to raise a small match. The change is designed to encourage women entrepreneurs to reach out for advertising, donations, sponsorships, events and other revenue streams that can help make their ventures sustainable, said Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab, which administers the project. The matching dollars will be awarded as soon as winners document the match.

“Sustainability is the lifeblood of innovation,” said Clark Bell, McCormick's Journalism Program Director. “We look forward to seeing more of our women media entrepreneurs survive and thrive.”

NMWE grant funding is available for news websites, mobile news services, apps or other ideas that offer interactive opportunities to provide news and information locally, nationally or among a community of interest. These can be solo ideas or team projects spearheaded by women. Early beta versions of projects are eligible to apply.

The application fee is $25. Awardees will also be required to blog at least once a month for the newmediawomen.org website. Under the grant, women media entrepreneurs will showcase their work at a daylong summit.

The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative is a project of J-Lab, a center of American University’s School of Communication. J-Lab is a journalism catalyst that funds new approaches to journalism, rewards innovations, researches what works and shares practical insights with news creators and news gatherers.

The Robert R. McCormick Foundation is committed to fostering communities of educated, informed and engaged citizens. Through philanthropic programs, Cantigny Park and museums, the Foundation helps develop citizen leaders and works to make life better in our communities. The Foundation was established as a charitable trust in 1955, upon the death of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the longtime editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The Robert R. McCormick Foundation is one of the nation's largest foundations, with more than $1 billion in assets. For more information, please visit www.McCormickFoundation.org.

Freelance Cafe East, Workshops

Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma FREE workshop – covering youth violence, Philly 12/9-10

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Columbia's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma is hosting a FREE workshop on youth violence, Dec 9-10 in Philadelphia. Deadline to register is Nov 23. Details here and below.

-mia

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On behalf of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, I invite you to participate in a special workshop on covering youth violence, being held on December 9 & 10 in Philadelphia.

Even as crime rates hit record lows in cities across the country, gun homicides, gang violence and dating abuse among young people remain stunningly high. Last year, there were more than 4,000 violent incidents in Philadelphia's schools, the majority of them involving students not yet in high school.

Youth violence represents a serious public health problem for all communities. It challenges health professionals and educators, law enforcement and courts, community organizations and government agencies.  It also challenges news professionals, whether health and education reporters, cops and court reporters, feature writers, investigative reporters or journalists covering schools, families and neighborhoods. To help journalists and news organizations in the greater Philadelphia area strengthen their coverage of this crucial public health issue, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma based at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is presenting a two-day workshop: “Getting it Right: Reporting on Youth Violence.”

The workshop, supported with funding from the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation and additional support from the Stoneleigh Foundation, will take place at WHYY in Philadelphia. It will feature a range of local and national mental health and policy experts, award-winning journalists and violence prevention advocates. It will include background briefings as well as specialized reporting skills training to enhance journalists’ capacity to report on youth violence knowledgeably, ethically and effectively.

The workshop is open to working reporters, editors, photographers, producers or bloggers for print, broadcast or online media based in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas. Staff, contract and freelance journalists are eligible.

The registration deadline is November 23, 2011 at 5 p.m. EST. More information can be found at bit.ly/dartcenteryouthviolence


I hope you’ll register for this FREE workshop. I also hope you will pass along this invitation to colleagues.


Best,

Bruce Shapiro


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Bruce Shapiro
Executive Director
Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

work: 212.854.8056

cell: 203.843.4390

Freelance Cafe East

Fellowship in Immigration Coverage in 2012, application deadline Jan 17

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The Institute for Justice and Journalism is seeking applicants for their Immigration Reporting Program happening in April 2010. Deadline is January 17. Details below!
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 http://www.justnews.org/page.asp?EntryID=413

 Apply for IJJ's 2012 Immigration Reporting Program

 Fellowship Application Deadline: January 17

IJJ is accepting applications for its 2012 professional fellowship program, which will examine the contentious immigration issues playing out across the country on local, state and federal levels and their role in the 2012 election campaign.

 

Twelve Fellows will be selected to participate in the professional development program, which will help reporters cover legal, political and demographic developments involving immigration.

 

The program will provide journalists with facts, figures and perspectives to move beyond the typical campaign rhetoric on immigration. It also will examine the anticipated electoral impact of immigrants who have become newly eligible to vote.

 

The program, “Immigration in the Heartland: the 2012 Elections and Beyond,” will take place April 20-25 at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and its Institute for Research and Training, which are partnering with IJJ in this program.

 

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation is the program’s funder.

 

The deadline for receipt of applications is Jan. 17.

 

Click here for program details and application form. 

                             Questions may be directed to ijj@justnews.org

 PLEASE SEND NAME AND EMAIL OF POTENTIAL APPLICANTS

TO ijj@justnews.org AND WE WILL FOLLOW UP.

 

Visit our website: www.justnews.org

          See previous Immigration in Heartland projects:http://immigrationintheheartland.wordpress.com/