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What a scholarship is good for

We received this from Danielle Maloney from Germantown NY and PANDA 23 , who went to “Be More,” the national ACM conference last July on a Paul Berg Scholarship from ACM Northeast. I had a great experience attending the 2018 ACM National Conference in Baltimore. I learned a lot from the panel sessions I attended. Also of equal importance to […]

A Convo with our Friends at BRIC

logo for BRIC of Brooklyn NY

Anthony Riddle has been Vice-President of Community Media at BRIC Media Center in Brooklyn, NY for over 5 years.  Many remember him from years past as Executive Director of the national Alliance for Community Media. Erica Jones, ACM-NE Chair, pitched a few questions at this dynamite community media leader…. What new projects/initiatives is BRIC taking […]

Updates from States

VAN of Vermont is quietly transitioning into summer.  Policy activity, like the lawsuit from Comcast, is in a wait-and-see period.  VAN uses Slack (slack.com) as their communications/forum tool. Check the VAN website here or contact VAN’s representative to the Northeast board. NHCCM of New Hampshire have had good attendance at the member meetings with a […]

Why he went to Minneapolis

Marc Gronich is Director of Legislative Affairs for the state affiliate, ACM New York and Vice-Chairman of the Oversight Board for Channel Albany in the state capital.  With decades of experience as a community access intern and producer, he went to the Rivers to Cross conference to seek the policy and technological tools to help […]

ACMNY goes to Albany

This is adapted from a report by Tony Arrien, chair of the New York state chapter: ACM New York had a “Community Media Advocacy Day” in Albany back on March 29, 2017. In addition to most of our ACMNY Board members, more than a dozen Community Media representatives from all over the state went to the capital for […]

What’s New in the Northeast?

At the monthly meeting/conference calls, members of the ACM Northeast Board exchange news from our states, much of it about policy matters at state level.  ACM-NE can’t work on policy at a regional level, with all the variation among the states, but we all learn from each other how things work and might work for […]

April in New York State

(adapted from Maryann Arrien’s report to ACM-NE) ACM New York’s six current board members had monthly meetings in February and March. We have started the work of our Public Policy Committee & Public Relations Committee and discussed plans for a video to be produced at a PEG center in either Westchester or NY City to further […]