Center for Asian American Media
The Diversity Beat - NMC Election Initiative 2008
In anticipation of the 2008 Presidential Election, the National Minority Consortia (NMC) presents the Diversity Beat - a multi-platform initiative to incorporate diversity in public media as a central premise to covering a national news event, while also signaling public media’s commitment to diversity in public affairs reporting.
The Initiative will bring to public broadcasting and public radio election-related stories from different communities within the growing minority electorate. The initiative is structured around cross-collaborations with broadcast and online news outlets (most notably the Online Newshour and Frontline/WORLD), community partners (such as New American Media, Scribe and Reznet), and young diverse journalists.Watch the latest stories produced by the NMC fellows below.
The NMC’s goal is to reframe the political conversation as viewed through the communities and provide the context and perspectives not covered by mainstream media.
The NMC introduced our election-year partnership in June 2007 on the All-American Presidential Forums on PBS moderated by Tavis Smiley.
The NMC are five national media organizations funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to deliver programing that brings minority voices to the public airwaves. Members include the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), headquartered in San Francisco; Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) in Los Angeles; National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) in New York; Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) in Lincoln, Nebraska; and Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) in Honolulu.
