Mercado, PBS Newshour, Center for Investigative Reporting and Cooperation in productions Homelands “food for 9 billion”
St. Paul, Minnesota (Nasdaq) 24 January 2012
Marketplace American Public Media, PBS Newshour, the Center for Investigative Reporting and patriotic productions are based on a multi-media communications platform together, “food for 9 billion.” The project examines the challenge of feeding the world in a time of growing demand, changing diets, rising food and energy prices, lower land and water resources and accelerating climate change.
both hard on the merits, “food for 9 billion” will appear to further research into the global issues of food security in the public media.
The main elements of the project “Food for 9 billion,” offers an annual series of radio features in the Bazaar, a series of one-year duration of the video features and a PBS News Hour on-line use by the Center for Investigative Reporting managed in foodfor9billion. org. Specialists at Cornell University, Franklin & Marshall College and PBS Newshour are designing web interactive features and materials for teachers and students.
Monday 23 Market in January and the PBS News Hour features of each edition on the ways in which rapid population growth contributes to deepening food crisis in the Philippines. Both were reported by the Los Angeles Independent journalist Sam Eaton. Before properties investigated the role of science in the promotion of global food production, the roots of the famine in East Africa, and the debate in Egypt on food policy and prices.
“The struggle is for food on the table lay a fundamental human history”
said Jonathan Productions Patrias “Miller, executive producer of” food for 9 billion. “” We see this in families, the gain in the Philippines, who are determined to have some control over their future. There is also a complex social history, mixed economy, science, ethics, politics and culture. “
“Feeding the world have to produce much more food,” said Sharon Tiller, who runs digital media at the Center for Investigative Reporting. “The stories that occur across multiple platforms – including television, radio, animation and interactive capabilities – as such diverse factors as population, climate, politics and world trade reveals interact, what to make our three-dimensional portrait of the enormous challenge that we are. “
“” food for 9 billion “based on the underlying qualities that the public media, the value of public higher quality journalism and storytelling with powerful possibilities of response and participation in the story” Jon McTaggart, President and CEO of American Public Media. “With all the available media technologies enables us to support a global issue with global coverage.”
“food for 9 billion” was made possible by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation part, the funds for a new company and the Grantham Foundation with additional support from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Atkinson Centre for Sustainable Future at Cornell University. To learn more about the “food for nine billion,” foodfor9billion.org visit.
Contacts:
Tara Schlosser
Phone: (651) 290-1436
Colossians ch (a) American Public Media (dot) org
Jonathan Miller
Phone: (607) 266-8128
jon (a) country of origin (dot) org
Anne Bell
Phone: (703) 998-2175
Abell (a) NewsHour (dot) org
Christa Scharfenberg
Phone: (510) 809-3171
cscharfenberg (a) cironline (dot) org
About CIR:
The Center for Investigative Journalism, is the oldest national non-profit investigative journalism. It appears as exciting multi-media stories to engage and inform the public, its distribution across hundreds of news agencies, such as Frontline, NPR, The Washington Post and The Daily Beast. CIR California Watch launched in 2009, now the largest research team in the state. CIR reports are congressional hearings and legislation, UN resolutions, the public interest demands and changes in business strategy led policy.
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home:
patriotic Productions is a collective term non-profit journalism specializing in radio programs and documentaries, especially in developing countries. Since its founding in 1990, Homelands has produced eight big series for public broadcasting, reports of more than 50 countries and winner of 22 national and international awards.
About PBS Newshour:
PBS Newshour is seen by more than 5 million viewers weekly and is available online, via public radio in select markets and as a podcast. The program is produced in association with WETA Washington, DC, and WNET.org in New York. Essential means for PBS NewsHour is provided by Corporate BNSF Railway, television viewers with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public. PBS NewsHour Extra, a web resource for students and teachers offers current events and curriculum resources are to national standards.
About the market:
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