By Caty Borum Chattoo, producer and communication strategist for Link TV, assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and media fellow with the AU Center for Social Media.
Back in September of last year – around the 18th, to be exact – a student in a media class I teach blogged about something she was picking up on Twitter and in the blogosphere. But although she was pretty sure that “something” was happening, she wondered why she wasn’t reading or hearing more about it in media coverage. I recall tweeting back to her, “you can find stories on indie and public media, like Link TV, Democracy Now!, NPR…”