September 28, 2021 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Trauma Porn: A Media Obsession Worth Eradicating What Can Black Storytellers Do About It? Trauma porn is ubiquitous in today’s media. Footage of Haitian refugees living in squalid conditions beneath Texas’ Del Rio International Bridge. Images of desperate Afghan families risking everything …
September 21, 2021 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz What We Can Learn from the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards This weekend’s Primetime Emmys made it official: streaming networks are now television’s dominant player. We all saw this coming. But it’s worth noting that subscription services have eaten network TV’s lunch at breakneck …
September 14, 2021 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz A New Era’s Dawn? New Peabody Awards Recognize Digital Storytellers When BPM launched its New Media Institute more than a decade ago, we knew we were on the front edge of what would become a storytelling game changer. At the time, our program …
BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA GUEST DISPATCH September 7, 2021 By Michèle Stephenson Photo from the 2011 short film series Haiti: One Day, One Destiny, Goudougoudou: Will We Learn from the Past? When the 2010 earthquake — now infamously called Goudougoudou by locals — hit Haiti, Facebook was my lifeline. For weeks, it was how I stayed …
September 7, 2021 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Leveling the Still Tilted Playing Field A couple of weeks ago, I and several dozen other New York City nonprofit arts leaders worked with the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York Arts Foundation to select the final group of grantees …