Center for Media Education

The Center for Media Education (CME) is a national non-profit 501(c)(3) "organization dedicated to improving the quality of the electronic media. CME fosters telecommunications policy making in the public interest through its research, advocacy, public education, and press activities."

Personnel

 * In 1998 Kathryn Montgomery, Ph.D. was their President
 * Jeff Chester co-founded and served as executive director (until 2000) of the Center for Media Education.
 * Debra Roth, Center for Media Education National Education Project Will Inform Parents How To Use The V-Chip And TV Ratings, Kaiser Family Foundation, accessed July 7, 2007.
 * Amy Aidman Former Research Director for CME
 * James M. Giglio former research assistant at CME
 * Shelley Pasnik, Former Director of Children's Policy at CME
 * Jorge Reina Schement Advisory Board Member
 * Tracy Westen Board Member
 * Nicholas Johnson - Advisor or Director

Funding

 * In 1995 they received $50,000 from the Nathan Cummings Foundation for "EDUCATION about the information superhighway and the arts."


 * In 1999 they received $150,000 from the Smith Richardson Foundation for their Teens and Digital Media project: "Kathryn Montgomery will research and write a report on how digital media shape the culture of American teenagers. She will analyze the content of Internet services created for teens and assess the economic and technological forces that are shaping the media culture for teens."


 * In 1999, they received a three-year grant of $600,000 from the Carnegie Corporation "as a final grant toward public education and advocacy on behalf of children’s interests in the electronic media."


 * According to the Foundation Center in 2000, CME received just over $1.6 million in foundation grants (ranking number 43 among Recipients of Foundation Grants for Media and Communications, circa 2000.


 * In 2000, they received $125,000 from the Ford Foundation "For public education and local constituency building on policy issues related to high-speed networks."


 * In 2002 they received a $40,000 grant from the Open Society Institute "To support youth media groups' education and engagement around open-access issues on the Internet."

Projects
"The Center's two current projects are the Campaign for Kids' TV, aimed at improving the quality of children's television, and the Future of Media Project, dedicated to fostering a public interest vision for the new media and information superhighway of the 21st century."

Contact

 * Center for Media Education, 2120 L Street,
 * NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20037
 * Tel: (202) 331-7833
 * Web: www.cme.org/cme (not working)