Internews Network's Persephone Miel, a recent fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, thinks taxpayer-funded media -- PBS, NPR, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- should increase their online presence to more effectively serve the American people and their communities.
"There's a really strong sense both within the system, and certainly from a lot of critics, or not even so much critics, but people who want public media to succeed, and value it -- that public broadcasting has a huge potential role to play, as the media landscape shifts and as we shift into more and more online delivery and platform-Agnostic content," she said in an interview with reclaimthemedia.org. "But there's a really good chance that they're not going to seize that opportunity, and that [public broadcasters] could end up being completely irrelevant to the next wave of journalism -- which would be sad."
Miel also supports not-for-profit funding of public media: "Public media is supposed to be going where the people are, regardless of whether there's money there or not. So the fact that they don't seem to be looking for partnerships with local nonprofit-place bloggers or other things, trying to bring in that new stuff, now that they can -- it's kind of depressing."
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