Journalism Archive

  • Learn and Use Latest Internet Technologies Here At Pannell Center

    Learn and Use Latest Internet Technologies Here At Pannell Center

    By   Charles E. Hughes  –  The Pannell Center will be working with the staff of Access Sacramento, and other community entities, to establish a Neighborhood News Service that will be built and managed by high school and college aged youth from the Pannell Center community. The Pannell Center is now in the process of [...]

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  • Access Sacramento Helps Plan Media Conference – Reno, October 15 and 16

    Access Sacramento Helps Plan Media Conference – Reno, October 15 and 16

    by Ron Cooper Friends of Access Sacramento…. have you ever wondered how public, education, and government access cable television and community media centers operate in other Western communities? Are there programming concepts, production tips, new equipment ideas, board development questions, or legislative updates you are curious about but the friendly folks at Fry’s and City [...]

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  • Watch Journalism Panel Recorded in Partnership With Sacramento Press and Sacramento Bee

    Watch Journalism Panel Recorded in Partnership With Sacramento Press and Sacramento Bee

    by Ron Cooper This photo along with several others, by Colleen Belcher, can be found at www.SacramentoPress.com Continuing in our series of collaborative media partnerships, the Hometown-TV crew documented the six person panel of local media managers entitled “Paying for Content? Searching for New Media Revenue in the Digital Age”. Please read the very thorough [...]

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  • Access Sacramento and Other Nor Cal Media Centers Seek Congressional Help from Senator Boxer

    Access Sacramento and Other Nor Cal Media Centers Seek Congressional Help from Senator Boxer

    Ron Cooper joined with executive directors from PEG Access organizations in Marin, San Jose, Monterey, Gilroy, Palo Alto and Sacramento based consultant Sue Buske asking California Senator Barbara Boxer’s office for legislative help in Congress. The leaders met with Jennifer Tang, Senior Field Representative and Hillary Bishop Pearson, Special Projects Director for Senator Boxer in [...]

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  • “Community Journalism” and Sacramento’s Neighborhood News Bureau Site

    “Community Journalism” and Sacramento’s Neighborhood News Bureau Site

    Dedicated to studying new media trends in the United States, staff members at the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, have written an article titled, “Community Journalism,” where they analyze the roles of community journalism and its relationship to traditional journalism.  They also seek to uncover the ways in which community journalism can fill gaps [...]

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  • Youth Media Forum for Social Change

    Youth Media Forum for Social Change

    Written By, bel Reyes and Kindra F. Montgomery-Block UC Davis School of Education, Center for Community School Partnerhsips May 24, 2010 Set-up began early Saturday May 22  at 7:30 a.m., with student volunteers folding t-shirts, organizing registration sign-in sheets and setting up signs that would soon direct the Youth Media Forum for Social Change audience [...]

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  • Access Sacramento and KCRA Channel 3 Host Successful UC Davis Youth Media Forum

    Access Sacramento and KCRA Channel 3 Host Successful UC Davis Youth Media Forum

      Saturday May 22 marked a new high mark in our 25 year history. Coordinated in partnership with the U.C. Davis, School of Education and hosted in Studio B of KCRA, Access Sacramento streamed a two hour Youth Media Forum direct and “Live” on KCRA.com – Channel 3′s popular web site. The event was a [...]

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  • Neighborhood News At the Neighborhood Summit

    Neighborhood News At the Neighborhood Summit

    May 21st 2010 Sacramento CA: The Sacramento Convention Center was the site of this years Neighborhood Summit.   Attended by Sacramento health and service vendors, the summit also featured a presentation from Access Sacramento’s Neighborhood News team, AccessLocal.TV. The presentation included an overview of the campaign by Ron Cooper from Access Sacramento, and Kristian Manoff from Foxyea [...]

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  • “Neigborhood News Bureaus” – Florin Creek Community Recreation Center

    “Neigborhood News Bureaus” – Florin Creek Community Recreation Center

    “Neigborhood News Bureaus” – Florin Creek Community Recreation Center By Amy Lawrence “Community members benefit from the use of this facility because it is accessible, affordable and available.” According to Courtney Black, Public Information Officer for Southgate Recreation and Park District, this is why members of the Florin Creek area benefit from the Florin Creek Community [...]

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  • “Neighborhood News Bureaus” Tipping Point Part 3 of 5.

    “Neighborhood News Bureaus” Tipping Point Part 3 of 5.

    “Neighborhood News Bureaus” Why Access Sacramento? Why Now? Part 3 of 5 By Ron Cooper Outlined in our past two newsletters, I have described (a) our five South Sacramento County partner organizations (profiled each week in this newsletter), (b) key understandings from the “Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell helping us to understand how significant change [...]

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