Month: July 2021

The Gig Economy’s Health Toll

The Gig Economy’s Health Toll

July 27, 2021 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. The Headlines The Edge The Health Effects of the Gig Economy Pegasus...

Media’s Opioid Crisis and ‘Critical Race Theory’

Media’s Opioid Crisis and ‘Critical Race Theory’

July 20, 2021 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. The Headlines The Edge Why Media Is Complicit in the Ongoing Opioid...

About The Media Consortium

About The Media Consortium

View the full Media Consortium archive here.   Background In the wake of George W. Bush’s second-term victory in 2004, several left-leaning news outlets met with the goal of forming a coalition to encourage collaboration between independent news media and...

Reparations and Disinformation

Reparations and Disinformation

July 13, 2021 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. The Headlines The Edge On White Grief and Reparations Media’s Vaccine...

PCIM Sponsors Summer Internships For Eight Students in 2021

PCIM Sponsors Summer Internships For Eight Students in 2021

Each year, the Park Center for Independent Media sponsors students to work with independent media outlets and immerse themselves in non-corporate media production and distribution systems. Through the center’s internship program, students get the opportunity to...

Canada’s Indigenous Genocide Is Ongoing

Canada’s Indigenous Genocide Is Ongoing

The recovery of mass and unmarked graves at former Indian residential school sites in recent weeks has released a deluge of outrage and grief across the settler colony known as Canada. Horrifying truths are being unearthed that reveal the treachery by which Canadian...

Exxon Lobbyist Undermines Climate Action

Exxon Lobbyist Undermines Climate Action

July 6, 2021 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. The Headlines The Edge Exxon Lobbyists “Look out for Shareholders” as...