Madeleine Bair

Founding Director

Madeleine Bair is an award-winning journalist and media developer. She is the founder of El Tímpano, a Spanish-language reporting lab designed in collaboration with Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrants. Madeleine has taught radio production to teenagers, worked on a morning show at Chicago Public Radio, produced multimedia for Human Rights Watch, and collaborated with media activists from around the world with the organization, WITNESS. Her stories have appeared in The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, ColorLines, MediaShift and Orion, and broadcast on public radio programs including PRI’s The World and Independent Lens.

Participating Sessions

LOCAL JOURNALISM: OF DESERTS AND REGROWTH

“All journalism is local” goes the old saw, but if so, then all journalism is in trouble. In the last seventeen years, a quarter of all American newspapers have gone under, with local papers in small communities disappearing fastest. With them goes accountability. Where once there were vital avenues for reasoned public debate, there are now news deserts, lacking any ongoing press presence. The Storm Lake Times, captured in the...