Building a Progressive Echo Chamber?

posted by Jen Soriano

Just heard about a new project by the Media Consortium - the USSF media wire. With this, the People's Media Center, the Allied Media Conferene and the Progressive Communicators Network, MAG-Net, and CMJ/SmartMeme/Praxis' Change the Story PMA all poppin off at the USSF - I'm feeling a little giddy watching the growth of a more coordinated progressive media sector in support of our growing movements. Ima try to keep close tabs on how all these elements unfold here...

Meantime check out Erin Polgreen of the Media Consortium's description of the USSFwire - this is the kind of coordinated media infrastructure that I really think we need more of to build the communications power of our movements:

*The USSFwire project will provide media and non-profit organizations with
breaking reporting and fresh multimedia content to engage their
constituencies at no cost. *The Media Consortium is launching unique
collaborative effort to cover the US Social Forum next week. Over a dozen
media outlets and non-profit allies will participate in USSFwire, delivering
a stream of breaking news and collaborative reporting. And you can join the
fun. This is an excellent, no-cost opportunity to engage and inform your
audiences!

*We've got media producers like People's Media Center at the USSF, *
Colorlines*, Public News Service, *Yes! Magazine*, FreeSpeechTV, *GRITtv*,
Inter Press Service, *The Progressive*, Truthout, the National Radio
Project, *In These Times* and more participating!

Here's how you can benefit:

1. Host a *USSF headline widget* on your site, or use the USSFwire to
share media content for syndication/republishing. Headline feeds and stories
will be hosted on the People's Media Center NewsHub, among other places as long
as it credits the original source.

2. Sign up for our *daily top story alerts by emailing **
erin@themediaconsortium.com* . Alerts will
arrive in your inbox at noon everyday from June 22-26. This content will be
available for any organization to syndicate, so long as it credits the
original source.