In case you missed it, here’s some video from the event (with more to come!) and pictures.

Keynote Presentation from Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps

1st Panel on the issue of LA Times Ownership with Ian Masters, Robert Scheer, Kathleen Miles and Angelo Carusone

You can see pictures by visiting the album of this event at California Common Cause’s Facebook page here. 

You’re invited to the 6^th Annual LA Media Reform Summit at Occidental College

Good Grief – Who’s Going to Cover LA Now?

We wanted you to be the first to know about this year’s event. We’re focusing on a local issue: the LA Times. With the paper possibly looking at new ownership as its parent company emerges from bankruptcy, will a rumored buyout by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. or the Koch Brothers improve the paper’s news coverage? Would a different merger, sale, or consolidation better serve the community? If not, how will Angelenos get their local government news coverage – what will be the consequences of that shift?

This half day summit will study these issues and bring to light new ideas for how to make LA news better.

Speakers include:

She is one of the most recognizable foreign correspondents on network television today. But did you know Christiane Amanpour’s journey to the front lines of reporting included a stint as a graphics coordinator at a local NBC station?

In this episode of My First Big Break, Christiane Amanpour talks about how first big break, escaping the Iranian revolution with her family, started a journey that took her from WJAR in Providence, RI, all the way to the front lines of the first Gulf War as a reporter for CNN.

Professional skate photographers Grant Brittain (The Skateboard Mag) and Mike Blabac (DC Shoes) talk about how they have embraced Instagram. Note: This was filmed BEFORE the policy change announcement on December 17, 2012.

Photos featured are from the Instagram feeds of Brittain (@grantbrittain) and Blabac (@blabacphoto)

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Radio Rookies is a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world.

Read more here:

• Fishbowl LA: LA Media Catch Up to Huell Howser Retirement Story
• LA Observed: Well would you look at this: Huell Howser to retire *
• Los Angeles Magazine: Look At This! Oh My Gosh! Huell Howser Retires

Our love affair with public radio burns bright on the big screen. Do you have a deep affection for your little radio friend? If so, you should support us.

Video by Mae Ryan and Grant Slater

Movies feature in order of appearance:

• Casablanca
• Say Anything
• When Harry Met Sally
• Romeo + Juliet
• Love Actually
• Jerry Maguire
• Officer and a Gentleman

Tuesday, November 13 and Wednesday, November 14 Pacifica Radio Stations KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, WBAI and WPFW will devote their broadcast days to historic programs from the Pacifica Radio Archives.

Adrienne Rich reads her poems, twenty year old Bob Dylan introduces his new songs, James Baldwin, Dolores Huerta, Malcolm X, Ray Bradbury — the real and crazy mix and mash up of the latter half of the twentieth century.

It’s history. It’s inspiration. It’s revolution. Don’t miss excerpts from the 1974 marathon reading of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with the voices of Henry Fonda, Penny Marshall, Jack Klugman, George Segal, Tony Randall, Rob Reiner, and many others: http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org

If you’re inspired to donate, know that you are matching NEA and other funds to preserve and digitize exceptional programs (maybe even your own). A contribution to the Campus Campaign brings a collection of key historic tapes to the public library or college of your choice, and a copy for you to keep.  Help save the past of Public/Community Radio for the Future!

The internet didn’t kill radio, commercial radio is killing itself.  Ever wonder why über-corporations like Clear Channel can take over local radio stations, fire your favorite DJ and ignore the local music movements?  How can they make money when fewer and fewer people listen?  Private Equity firms such as Bain Capital have destroyed radio and made handsome profits along the way.

In the spirit of furthering understanding and communication within and between our many communities LA Indymedia brings Film-Night back with the film “Precious Knowledge”.

 Oct 14, 2012 at 7:00pm

“Precious Knowledge” is an important documentary that exposes the blatant racism that the State Superintendent of Education in Arizona recently displayed in cutting out the successful ethnic-studies program at Tucson High School. The film follows the lives of four students and several teachers as they fight to save their classes and the program that became an educational lifeline for them.

The disenfranchised high school seniors became academic warriors and community leaders in the face of losing a successful program that has become a national model of success. In a climate where the national average of Mexican-American drop-outs is 45 percent, 100 percent of the students enrolled in the Tucson High ethnic studies classes graduated from high school and 85 percent of them went on to college.

The filmmakers spent an entire year in the classroom filming this innovative social-justice curriculum, documenting the transformative impact on students who become engaged, informed, and active in their communities. This story is important to all of us; as Americans and as Angelinos. In our city Ron Gochez, a high school social studies teacher and important activist, currently running for city council, was recently fired for teaching ethnic-studies courses in his South LA classroom.

Come join LA Indymedia, in conjunction with the Gateway-Portal in West LA for our screening of the film with a discussion afterward. We will pass the hat …but of course everyone is welcome.  Feel free to bring a snack to share