Caty Borum Chattoo

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Opportunities and questions abound in the shifting marketplace for documentaries

By Caty Borum Chattoo, Executive Director (Center for Media & Social Impact) | September 8, 2020

In an excerpt from the new book “Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change,” Caty Borum Chattoo considers how the expanding documentary marketplace might affect the stories served up to audiences.

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What America do public TV’s documentaries represent?

By Caty Borum Chattoo, Executive Director (Center for Media & Social Impact) and Patricia Aufderheide, Senior Research Fellow (Center for Media & Social Impact) | July 14, 2017

A new study finds that documentaries co-produced and funded by the Independent Television Service are made by women and people of color more often than other forms of media.