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Not much on this site yet, but I found it by googling "public media". This is most of the text on the site: "The new Public Media Service will be based in Los Angeles and will involve the testing and development of a new radio and multimedia service directed to an ethnically diverse and underserved 25-40 year-old demographic and, initially, will target the fastest-growing population group in the region, Latinos."

Website for Native Public Media. From their mission statement: "Native Public Media Strengthening and Expanding the Voice of Native America The struggle of Native America has long been the struggle for freedom.  Fundamentally, the freedoms that are so important to all Americans are the same freedoms that are important to Native people:  to be able to make our voices heard and make our own decisions about issues affecting our lives, our health, our safety, our governments, and our homes.  The effort to secure these freedoms, however, has time and again been undercut by a centuries-long legacy of economic and cultural exploitation and the resulting socio-economic conditions that have long kept Native people poor and powerless. " Found by googling "public media"

Publicity was once the exclusive property of men of rank. They alone, by virtue of their stations, could make things public. During the eighteenth century it became meaningful to talk about public opinion as something formed outside the state. Today anyone with a Twitter account can make a public. In this series Ideas producer David Cayley examines how publics were formed in Europe between 1500 and 1700, and how these first publics grew into the concept of the public that we hold today.