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 and the Global Threat to Dissent “The Main Motor of Capitalism Is the Exploitation of Labor”—Boots […]
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 Crisis How Media Is Distorting ‘Critical Race Theory’ to Spur Outrage PCIM Launches Archive of The […]
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 increasing the impact of progressive independent media outlets in the United States. What came of […]
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 Misinformation Problem Fox News Forecasts Disinformation with New Weather Channel Raza Rumi and Sonali Samarasinghe on Survival […]
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 receive valuable hands-on experience at some of the leading independent media organizations and advocacy nonprofits in the nation. This […]
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 governments, churches and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) originally stole — […]
‘Vaccine Equity Is Urgent,’ Say Experts as Delta Variant Ravages Poor Nations
The rapid global spread of the so-called Delta variant—a highly contagious strain of Covid-19 now present in nearly 100 countries—has public health experts and advocates demanding immediate international action to distribute vaccines to unprotected populations amid growing concerns that the deadly virus is mutating more quickly than nations can administer shots. “Vaccine equity is urgent,” Madhukar Pai, an […]
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 Planet Burns (The Edge) Why Antitrust Bills Are Taking on Big Tech (The Edge) More from The […]