http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cmfe  will host the live stream

PLENARY SESSIONS: BRIEFS 

PLENARY SESSION 1 

The State of Community Media in Europe 

 Community media journalists are, in essence, "filling in the gaps" left by mainstream news outlets. Forde's extensive 10 year study now develops an understanding of the journalistic practices at work in independent and community news organizations. Challenging the News provides an inside glimpse into alternative and independent media journalism in the UK, US and Australia and is the first work to focus on providing practice-based examples of alternative journalism.

L.A. to draw a finer line on murals as art, not ads

Tthanks to Dara Greenwald for sending this CNN story.

Checking out the vacant Oil Street Artist Community for squatting potential.

From a history of the organization by Kaarle Nordenstreng and Cees Hamelink:

The history of the IAMCR goes back to the first years of Unesco. Its Committee on Technical Needs in the Mass Media drafted in 1946 a constitution for an “International Institute of the Press and information, designed to promote the training of journalists and the study of press problems throughout the world............

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Selling DVDs of Nollywood Films: Photography by Will Connors from Esquire