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Just Media Jury
The following media policy experts, selected the winners of the first annual Just Media Awards.
Sandra Braman
Sandra Braman is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Chair of the Communication Law and Policy Division of the International Communication Association. Her research focuses on the effects of digital technologies and their policy implications with the goal of helping policy-makers, activists, advocates, and citizens understand the relationship between often-obscure regulatory issues and the political, social, economic, and cultural world of our experience. Current work includes Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power (in press, MIT Press) and the edited volumes Communication Researchers and Policy-Making (MIT Press, 2003), The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004).
Mark Lloyd
Mark Lloyd is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches communications policy and conducts research on the relationship between communications policy and strong democratic communities. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a nonprofit, non-partisan project he co-founded to bring civil rights principles and advocacy to the communications policy debate. Previously, Mr. Lloyd worked as General Counsel to the Benton Foundation, and as a communications attorney at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, D.C. representing both commercial and non-commercial companies. He also has nearly twenty years of experience as a print and broadcast journalist, including work as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN, and is the recipient of several awards including an Emmy and a Cine Golden Eagle. He has served as board member of dozens of national and local organizations, including the Independent Television Service and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. He has also served as a consultant to the Clinton White House, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the Smithsonian Institution. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth Peters recently stepped down as Executive Director of the national Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers in order to concentrate on her own creative work. As director of AIVF and publisher of The Independent Film and Video Monthly from 1999-2004, Elizabeth oversaw the retooling of AIVF's Information Services programs, initiation of internet-based support services, expansion of The Independent magazine, and ongoing media advocacy work. Elizabeth previously directed the Austin Film Society where she created programs including Free Cinema, the Texas Documentary Tour, and the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund, an annual grant award. She has produced and directed short advocacy pieces (Women's Action Coalition), assistant-edited documentaries (The Maine Coast) and studio features (Office Space), and taught various production classes for schools and community groups in Boston, Austin, and New York. Elizabeth has a background in photography and graphic production, and has also coordinated grassroots distribution efforts for clients ranging from indie-label bands to organic family farms.
Monroe Price
Monroe Price is a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and, from next year, will be at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. While most of his work now is on international and comparative media law, he was an early writer on community involvement in cable television and public access channels. His most recent book is Media and Sovereignty: The information revolution and its challenge to state power (MIT 2003).
Anthony Riddle
For more than 25 years Riddle has worked in the many forms of media for the purpose of effecting positive social change. For the past 22 years, he has concentrated his efforts in the emerging field of community media. Riddle’s work has been on all levels, from technician to policy-maker, from producer to political advocate, from community-based teacher to international representative, including: Press Secretary and Speech Writer for Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, National Chair of the Alliance for Community Media, Executive Director of Manhattan Neighborhood Network where he started the first nationwide Youth Channel, Executive Director of Minneapolis Telecommunications Network, and Member of President Carter's Commission on Radio and Television Autonomy in the Former Soviet States. Riddle has served as a presenter to conferences and commissions in Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Caribbean and throughout North America for the purpose of sharing information on community media. He is currently a Program Consultant at the Media Justice Fund of The Funding Exchange.