OPEN MEDIA exists to promote effective, human-centered communications prioritizing public benefit over profit. We make cutting-edge strategic communications accessible to those working to shift public awareness and expand civic engagement
Our expertise enables nonprofits and governments, to shift the media conversation (and thus social awareness) from the corporate interests of our commercial media system towards the human interests of an open, diverse, engaged public.
To accomplish our mission, we begin with providing affordable, high-end media and technology services. We follow up by ensuring that our clients are empowered to leverage the tools we create.
In 2001, Tony Shawcross, Executive Director of the Open Media Foundation, co-founded a non-commercial website called [denverevolution] in order to promote independent arts and non-commercial community events overlooked by the local media. In 2003, members of the denverevolution collective began producing video as the [denverevolution] production group, borrowing gear from friends at KBDI (PBS 12), Free Speech TV, and Denver Community Television. FSTV provided them with their first editing station in an office donated by Little Voice Productions'. In 2004 they significantly expanded their media and technology training services, and formed a board, incorporating as "the [denverevolution] production group." In 2005 they changed their name to Deproduction and with the closure of Denver Community Television, they submitted a proposal to re-launch Public-access television in Denver under an entirely new model, leveraging emerging web 2.0 technologies and business models into community media. In 2006 they launched Denver Open Media (DOM), with an independent brand and name that could be owned by the community. In 2008, after winning a Knight News Challenge award, Deproduction merged with Civic Pixel, the local web development firm who had built the DOM website, resulting in 3 or 4 disconnected brands. In 2009, the parent organization changed its name to the Open Media Foundation, dropping Deproduction and Civic Pixel. Denver Open Media remains an independent, community-run project of the parent company, Open Media Foundation. Since 2008, the Colorado Channel has be managed and operated by the Open Media Foundation. The Open Media Foundation and the Colorado Channel aim to adhere to broadcast production values that accurately convey the business of the General Assembly’s proceedings without editing, interpreting, or distorting the proceedings.
At Open Media, we recognize that we are the respectfully chosen and trusted individuals to steward our donors’ money and time. Our commitment to you, our valued stakeholders, is that board and staff will be individually accountable and our organization will be accountable agency-wide. Thank you for your continued trust and support.
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