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Preserving Democracy
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Preserving Democracy is a multi-platform public media initiative produced by The WNET Group, a nonprofit public media producer based in New York, New York.[1] According to its website, "The initiative supports, coordinates, and disseminates innovative reporting from public media across all platforms on a national level, tracking efforts both to limit and to protect voter participation at all levels of government."[2]
Work
According to its website, "Preserving Democracy aims to facilitate an unprecedented level of collaboration and partnership among PBS programs and platforms, and perhaps most importantly, to build collaboration, capacity and infrastructure among member stations to facilitate local reporting, encourage local engagement across the political spectrum and stimulate dialogue among diverse voices."[2]
Films and video
As of August 2023, the Preserving Democracy initiative had released four films:[3]
- Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court released in May 2023.
- Michael Flynn's Holy War released in October 2022.
- Lies, Politics, and Democracy released in September 2022.
- Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union released in January 2022.
Preserving Democracy also produces shorter-form video content on select topics.
News, resources, and tools
The Preserving Democracy initiative aggregates select news and opinion stories related to issues of elections and democracy and provides links to external resources, such as research reports, on these same topics. The initiative also publishes a newsletter, the States of Democracy podcast, and an online tool that provides news stories and voting information on a state-by-state basis.
Funding
According to its website, the initiative received principal funding from the Chang K. Park Foundation and major funding from:[2]
- William Ackman and Neri Oxman
- Ronnie and Lawrence D. Ackman
- The Dorothy Y. Pacella Fund
- The Anderson Family Charitable Fund
- Janet Prindle Seidler
Recent news
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