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.
