Media Policy Initiative

This page on media mapping has been developed to serve both as a repository of the data the Media Policy Initiative is generating as well as a place to indicate other complementary resources available on the web. We hope you find it useful. Please let us know if you have additional links or entities you think we should map.

• Journalism and Communications teaching across the United States (Raw data available here.)
• National Federation of Community Broadcasters Stations
• Detailed map of Seattle
• Free community papers across the US.[Under development]

Other Ecosystem Efforts

• Community Information Toolkit from the Knight Foundation
• Waves of Change, Community Media around the World compiled by Deep Dish Waves of Change
• Mapping the Media Arts Field (Project of the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture)
• Ali Modarres’ work mapping in California for the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs: "In Search of Digital Equity: Assessing the Geography of Digital Divide in California" and "Technology and the Geography of Inequality in Los Angeles"
• The New Journalism Ecosystem (Project of The Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University)
• Inothernews
• News Frontier Database (Columbia Journalism Review Project)
• News that Matters: An Assessment of Chicago's Information Landscape by the Chicago Community Trust

Other Maps

• Community Media Database
• Citizen Media Sites from the Knight Citizen News Network at J-Lab
• Community Informatics Initiative (at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) broadband mapping of Illinois
• Public Media Maps (Project of the National Center for Media Engagement)

• Online Media Guide of Washington State (not publicly available)

• College radio map

Other Tools

• Managing News Drupal Module
• Embed Congressional District Overlays/Shapes on Your Own Maps (Tool of GovTrak)

• OpenHeatMap.