Free Speech TV — Dish Network 9415

Found buried in my in box – a call for video journalists to collaborate with Free Speech TV at the US Social World Forum in Detroit next week.

Dear Colleagues,
Free Speech TV is proud to provide live coverage of the upcoming 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit, June 22-26. Extensive daily coverage will be broadcast both on the network and online at www.freespeech.org. Our USSF reporting will reach into millions of homes across the country. We want to collaborate with you by providing a platform to share your voice and interviews directly from Free Speech TV’s US Social Forum headquarters.

Free Speech TV will provide the space, equipment, and crew for you to conduct your interview and report directly from the People’s Media Center in Cobo Hall. FSTV will promote your story on Facebook & Twitter in real time, your video stories will be archived (so you can access them after the event, and all content is shared, so you can embed the video feed into your social network and onto partnering Web sites.

Bonnie Gross, Outreach & Member Services Manager for Free Speech TV, says they have spots available for reporting at the Forum. If you’d like to contribute to the reporting please contact Gross at bonnie@freespeech.org or cell 415. 531. 9078. In your email give a quick one liner on what you are planning to cover or attend.

“We will be covering plenary sessions with C-Span-like coverage,” Gross said. Free Speech TV is interested in “Any workshops that journalists think will translate well on TV.”

Gross said: “We have 13 journalists as part of our editoreial team. I have slots that we are looking to fill of about 10 minutes long.” All the content generated will be shared and you can get an embed code from the Free Speech TV.

Web: www.freespeech.org
DISH Network Channel 9415