Program Overview
Over three days, the conference will feature 60 fascinating panel discussions and workshops plus inspiring speeches, multimedia presentations, film screenings, roundtable meetings with policymakers, regional caucuses for you to meet media reformers from your home state, and dozens of receptions and parties. We will focus on broadening the media reform movement, envisioning the future of our media system, harnessing new technology for change, and achieving concrete policy victories through sustainable organizing.
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The conference is organized around five themed tracks:
Media Policy
Sessions in this track will overview media policy issues, discuss media problems and their policy solutions, convey the history of media policy, compare alternative regulatory systems, etc.
Media Reform Activism and Movement Building
Sessions in this track will include how-to workshops, "best practice" case studies in media reform activism, models for successful campaigns, strategies for engaging key constituencies, histories of media activism, etc.
Journalism and Independent Media
Sessions in this track will focus on the state of journalism, look at how media reform impacts working journalists, and survey the diverse landscape of public, community, ethnic, alternative and new media.
Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Media
Sessions in this track will discuss linkages between media and social and economic justice issues (for example: media rights as civil rights; media and voting rights; disparities in access to and control of media).
Media and Democracy: The Next Frontier
This track will explore future directions in media reform activism in a world of changing technology, evolving policy paradigms and emerging social change strategies. Sessions will focus on innovative concepts in media reform.
Self-Organized Sessions
Conference participants are invited to self-organize workshops, discussions, or meetings at the conference on relevant media reform issues that may not be adequately covered in the formal conference program. If you’re interested in organizing a session or meeting, please plan to sign up for a meeting space and a time slot at the information booth in the convention center. We will post signs next to the information booth that advertise times and locations for self-organized sessions. Organizers of on-site workshops and meetings may also want to produce fliers or handouts to promote your gathering. We are confident there will be plenty of space for everyone who is interested in generating a self-organized meeting to do so.
Check out the NCMR07 Web page, which includes video, audio, photos and transcripts, from our last conference.
Call for Suggestions
We conducted an open call for suggestions which is now closed. But if you submit informal topic suggestions or speaker suggestions, we may still be able to consider them.
