Via Broadcast Newsroom, “American University’s Center for Social Media and has issued a follow-up to the groundbreaking 2006 study, The New Deal. The New Deal 1.5, timed to coincide with the opening of the SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, urges independent documentary makers and public broadcasters to take advantage of the frontier nature of the online video environment to ensure a future for public media. The study was co-produced with the Independent Television Service (ITVS).” Read the entire article>>