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Join me and Tracy for a conversation with three high-impact independent media producers about how social media platforms are powering vibrant, diverse journalism experiments. On hand will be Steve Katz, the publisher of award-winning investigative magazine Mother Jones; Kevin Weston, the Director of New Media and Youth Communications at ethnic news network New America Media, and Susan Mernit, editor and publisher of community news hub Oakland Local. Learn how these pioneers are thriving in the rapidly shifting media environment and shaping independent journalism for the future.

Time: 6:00-7:30 PM Thursday, March 18th
Location: The Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room, 3543 18th Street

Special thanks to our co-sponsors:

Media Alliance, G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, Bay Area Video Coalition, Mother Jones, New America Media, Oakland Local

It’s been a bit of a crazy first week out, what with blizzards, postponements and lurking laryngitis. But our DC network turned out, and we’ve been making a splash online as well. Here are this week’s highlights if you missed them:

• We kicked off our launch week on Sunday with a lively book salon on Firedoglake. “Beyond the Echo Chamber is infused with [a] proactive spirit and sense of potential, grounded in a subtle understanding of networked politics,” wrote our host, Matthew Kerbel. (Thanks–we couldn’t have put it better ourselves.)
• On Tuesday, The American Prospect published our op-ed, “Where Will We Get the Next Rachel Maddow?” in which we highlight three strategies that progressive media outlets can adopt to succeed.
• Despite the snow, we also managed to pull off an online panel at the New America Foundation, Making Media Work–the webcast is available here. Thanks to all of our colleagues around the country who weighed in with challenging questions via Twitter
• C.W. Anderson also posted a thoughtful piece at the Nieman Journalism Lab, “Institutions, networks, and policy directions for a healthy journalism.”
• The discussion at yesterday’s book party was also quite engaging–we’ll post a video shortly.
• Today, the Free Press featured an interview with me on the book in their weekly Media Minutes podcast

We’re learning a lot from our interlocutors as we talk about the book–watch this space for new insights from the field.

While the “in-person” event was canceled, we still had an amazing successful webcast of New America Foundation’s Making Media Matter event. Below’s the video if you want it to check it out and if you want to see some of the questions/comments about the panel on twitter, search the hash tags #beyondecho and #mpinaf.