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The projects “will bring vitally needed fresh perspectives and new voices to public media,” said the executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium.
April 28, 2015 | https://current.org/2015/04/four-projects-aimed-at-african-american-audiences-win-pilot-funds-at-inaugural-pitch-black-event/SPONSORED
Select films by the 2024 Trailblazer Award recipient will stream free during BPM’s PitchBLACK season.
April 22, 2024 | https://current.org/black-public-media-hosts-sam-pollard-film-retrospective-during-pitchblack/SPONSORED
Select films by the 2023 Trailblazer Award recipient will stream free for two weeks during BPM’s PitchBLACK season.
March 20, 2023 | https://current.org/black-public-media-to-host-yoruba-richen-film-retrospective-during-pitchblack/SPONSORED
International field of Black storytellers will pitch artificial intelligence, virtual reality and projection-mapping projects
Creative technologists from Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States will compete for $75K in funding on Wednesday, April 27th, at the 2022 PitchBLACK Forum: Immersive.
April 15, 2022 | https://current.org/black-public-media-announces-lineup-for-its-global-immersive-pitch-competition-with-75k-in-prizes/Four documentaries and an animated short exploring the Black experience received over $400,000.
April 16, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/04/black-public-medias-pitchblack-commits-largest-ever-funding-pool-to-five-documentaries/The grants were announced at the 2024 PitchBLACK Forum in New York.
April 29, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/black-public-media-awards-610000-to-filmmakers-honors-sam-pollard-with-trailblazer-award/A legal nonprofit that challenges the use of race in university admissions alleges that a partnership to support Black filmmakers violates federal law.
August 10, 2023 | https://current.org/2023/08/civil-rights-complaint-targets-black-public-medias-residency-at-university-of-nebraska/The grants were announced Thursday during BPM’s PitchBLACK Awards.
May 1, 2023 | https://current.org/2023/05/black-public-media-awards-225000-for-films-on-queer-artists-figure-skaters-and-more/“Our handling of story ideas can have built-in defenses against the biases that all of us bring to work every day.”
October 7, 2022 | https://current.org/2022/10/how-to-fix-the-unconscious-biases-in-your-newsrooms-pitch-process/The grants were announced Thursday night at the PitchBLACK Awards.
April 29, 2022 | https://current.org/2022/04/black-public-media-awards-225000-for-three-film-and-technology-projects/With cash prizes of $75,000 as completion funds, producers expect to release their shows for broadcast later this year.
January 30, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/01/apt-pitchfest-kickstarts-pledge-shows-starring-rangan-chatterjee-and-les-stroud/Attendees at the Black Public Media event this month said virtual reality offers a chance to stamp the emerging medium with black stories and sensibilities.
April 17, 2018 | https://current.org/2018/04/at-pubmedia-summit-filmmakers-cite-promise-of-vr-production-for-seeding-black-voices/The National Black Programming Consortium has narrowed the field for NBPC 360, its ambitious new incubator program, to eight projects.
March 18, 2015 | https://current.org/2015/03/black-programmers-announce-new-content-incubator/Doing yoga, going green and enjoying winter sports sound like innocuous topics for a public media web series — that is, until they’re preceded by “Black folk don’t…”
Now midway through its third season, the web series Black Folk Don’t aims to spark frank discussions of racial identity in modern-day America.
December 23, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/12/web-series-explores-what-black-folk-dont-do/Broadcasters in Nebraska, Texas and Florida are learning how to engage viewers with immersive media productions.
March 7, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/03/experiments-with-360-video-prepare-stations-for-next-wave-of-innovation/Nate DiMeo will produce 10 podcasts focused on objects in the museum’s American Wing.
September 12, 2016 | https://current.org/2016/09/memory-palace-creator-joins-met-npr-board-welcomes-watson-and-other-comings-and-goings-in-public-media/These 14 groups are tasked with goals that support diversity in public media content.
July 21, 2016 | https://current.org/2016/07/a-guide-to-organizations-bringing-diversity-to-public-media/“Independent producers really do need this support.”
March 7, 2016 | https://current.org/2016/03/360-incubator-aims-to-amplify-diverse-voices-in-public-media/Doing more than her share for public TV’s $6 million outreach project surrounding Ken Burns’ National Parks series, Shanda Roberts lost her shoe in the muck of the Everglades.
May 29, 2009 | https://current.org/2009/05/15047/Younger hosts and reporters in public media discuss how they’ve honed their delivery and the personalities who inspire them.
September 11, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/09/how-early-career-public-radio-journalists-learn-to-shape-their-on-air-voices/