Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century
Channel: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Date: 05/11/2009

Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media's role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate and organize. The two investigate whether the United States has a system of public media that is able to support the kinds of widespread, high value, noncommercial, and productive communications essential for democratic functions.