There’s a better way.

A new story begins: Information/Communications

The business model of manufactured outrage and misinformation economics has led us to a mis-informed world, ongoing battles, wars and constant crises.  In a world where all systems are interdependent (working together as a natural ecosystem) we will explore how legacy media and social media monetized division and paranoia–and how communities can restore health and prosperity through transparency, open source, democratizing wisdom and improved public interest frameworks.

How Media Broke Reality — and How We Rebuild Trust

• Focus: The business model of manufactured outrage + misinformation economics
• Description: Explores how legacy and social media monetized division and paranoia—and how trust can be rebuilt through transparency, open sourcing, and public interest frameworks.

From Content Wars to Community Media

• Focus: Local news extinction + community power
• Description: How centralized media hollowed out local democracy—and how decentralized community media hubs can restore civic health.

Journalism Beyond Extraction: Ending Trauma-Based Storytelling

• Focus: Ethics + responsible storytelling
• Description: Media often exploits trauma for clicks. This session explores trauma-informed narrative design that empowers communities instead of exploiting them.

Understanding Paradigm Change: What happened? Why did it happen? How can we create a brighter future together?

Requires open collaboration and cooperation–not proprietary thinking.

Vision (see  appropriate video) Owning Our Stories: Decolonizing Media & Restoring Cultural Sovereignty

• Focus: Indigenous + global south perspectives
• Description: Colonial narratives still dominate global media. This session explores the future of story sovereignty and ethical representation.

Public Media Without Gatekeepers

• Focus: ActivityPub + decentralized media
• Description: A crash course on how federated media can escape corporate algorithms and empower networks of trust and knowledge.

Media and Consciousness: The Truth Will Set You Free.

• Focus:  (See Stephen Bassett 
• Description: Understand perspective and how new paradigm shifts can enable healthier more prosperous coexistence.

Follow the Money: Who Funds Information — and Why It Matters

• Focus: Business models for truth + sustainability
• Description: Ad-funded capitalism broke journalism. What new funding models support truth as a public service?

Title: From Clickbait to Systems Literacy: Journalism That Solves

• Focus: Solutions journalism + system change
• Description: How systems-based reporting empowers people instead of overwhelming them with crisis narratives.

The More You Watch, the Less You Know

• Inspired by the works and words of Danny Schechter, “The News Dissector,” we will relive a presentation made by Schechter in  2002 in New York City, courtesy of The Global Entertainment and Media Summit.” 
• Danny takes us on an insiders journey to discover what happened when Wall Street took over Main Street media, creating chaos and confusion—and there is  way out of this mess, not by restoring old institutions, but instead, by building better ones.              

AI, Media and the Battle for Human Attention

• Focus: AI misinformation + ethics + regenerative media futures
• Description: AI can deepen manipulation or help scale wisdom—this session explores ethical pathways.

Media for Planetary Health

• Focus: Nature’s systems as a model for media redesign
• Description: Media has focused on fear—not future. This conversation reframes media as an ecosystem for resilience and regeneration.
• Note: We do not want to have the same presenters who hog up the convention circuit.

Launching The Global Creators Cooperative: A New Media Economy

• Focus: Cooperative media + creator independence
• Description: How filmmakers, journalists, musicians and producers can co-own distribution and build a post-Hollywood studio system.
• We will outline how the corporate system worked, reference to Roger Corman and Bob Ezrin, and what we can accomplish now.

The Media We Need — A Global Call to Build Together

• Format: Open, multilingual, town hall
• Built around: The Mobilized Exchange + collaborative media infrastructur

The Media We Need — A Global Call to Build Together

• Format: Open, multilingual, town hall
• Built around: The Mobilized Exchange + collaborative media infrastructure

Mobilized News Launch Series

Media for Human Survival: Repairing Trust • Restoring Truth • Rewiring Systems

• Launch Date: Saturday, February 21, 2025
  Format: Hybrid Global Livestream + Interactive Roundtables
  ️ Powered by: Mobilized News + The Mobilized Exchange
  10 high-impact global conversations + youth innovation showcase + partner announcement