Our great global conversation, and my part in it.

It's nice to be encyclopedia-ized. Thanks Suzanne.

Eleven years, almost 100 productions, several thousand participating companies and innovators from all corners of the media world.

I launched AFI's website in 1995. In 1996 we started streaming video with the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's THE RINK. Today's version is filled with video.

An excellent overview of one year in the life of the AFI program. Additional articles as PDFs on download page

This link provides a summary, giving a flavor of the conversation.

ITVT's Tracy Swedlow interviews Suzanne Stefanac and me about the AFI Digital Content Lab shortly after she became the program's third director.

Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting, which I co-authored

My ground-breaking study of how new technology could have saved public media. Oops.

A speech I gave summarizing my report advocating the creation of a "Center for Independent Teleivision," charting the formation of what became the Independent Telvision Service (ITVS), America's principal funder of independent voices on TV.