Neil, Can you distribute the following item about a new effort to reinvigorate and restructure public broadcasting on IGC lists? Thanks for any help. This item has already gone out on the IAJ futuremedia list. --Jeff Cohen, FAIR PLEASE POST AND DISTRIBUTE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting is a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit education/advocacy group being established to promote a restructuring of U.S. public broadcasting as an independently-funded public trust, free from corporate and political influence. The goal is to revitalize public broadcasting and resist commercialization. CIPB is currently hiring two positions: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The candidate should be an experienced coalition-builder and media-savvy advocate with knowledge of public broadcasting and a passion for truly noncommercial and independent public TV and radio. A legislative or public interest lobby background is helpful. The ability to inspire activism is a must. Generous salary, based on experience, plus health benefits. The Executive Director’s job will include the following tasks: * to build a broad coalition among educational, cultural, religious, public interest, labor and civil rights groups * to recruit national figures as advisory board members and co-chairs, and win support among individuals and groups within the public broadcasting system * to project the reform effort into mass media * to generate public broadcasting accountability groups and activism at the local level * to promote reform and oppose commercialism in meetings with public broadcasting officials, the FCC, Congress and other bodies * to set-up an office, direct staff, exercise fiscal authority, work with corporate board ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Candidates should have backgrounds similar to that required for the Executive Director position. The Associate Director (salary $35,000-40,000 plus health) will work closely with the Executive Director in accomplishing the tasks listed above. SEND RESUMES/cover letter to: CSSE, Job Search, 901 Old Hickory Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15243; fax 412-341-6533. People of color/women urged to apply. CITIZENS FOR INDEPENDENT PUBLIC BROADCASTING is being launched with foundation support by a group that includes public broadcasting figures, academics and activists at a time when commercials and commercial values are ever more common on public TV and radio. CIPB proposes to unite a broad coalition around the concept that America needs a restructured, independently-funded, participatory public broadcasting system one that can serve our country’s educational and democratic needs. The goal of independent, commercial-free public broadcasting is especially crucial in this era of media monopolization and especially reachable due to recent economic and technological developments.