New Media Initiatives Announced At Mackinac
Two new media initiatives were announced Thursday at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference.
New Michigan Media and Issue Media Group today announced a groundbreaking partnership to highlight the contributions of Southeast Michigan's ethnic, minority and immigrant entrepreneurs and how their contributions impact regional economic revitalization.
The two southeast Michigan media organizations will establish the Ethnic and Minority Media Partnership, funded by the New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan will uncover, report and publicize the hard work and economic contributions of the large number of ethnic, minority and immigrant entrepreneurs in the region.
Issue Media Group's Southeast Michigan StartUp Web site has been expanded to include microsites from New Michigan Media's five largest ethnic publications -- the Arab American News, the Jewish News, the Michigan Korean Weekly, the Latino Press and the Michigan Chronicle. They'll chronicle the stories of minority entrepreneurs, for whom entrepreneurship has long been a vehicle for financial success. The companies said members of minority groups in southeast Michigan are four times as likely to start a business as the population overall.
Also, the Center for Michigan, a Lansing-based nonpartisan "think and do" tank, will launch an expansion of its coverage of statewide issues this fall with its new e-magazine, "Bridge." Center officials said the publication will combine "in-depth reporting of Michigan's public policy and economic challenges with pointed, pertinent analysis from veteran journalists."
Bridge will launch in September and will publish several times a week.
Subscriptions are free at www.bridgemi.com.
Bridge's Board of Advisers include Tom Baldini, a former adviser to Gov. Jim Blanchard and Rep. Bart Stupak; Mitch Bean, former director of the House Fiscal Agency; Kelly Chesney, former adviser to Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land; Ken Cole, former Capitol reporter for the Detroit News; Desiree Cooper, former Detroit Free Press columnist who now leads communications for Planned Parenthood of mid and Southeast Michigan; Blaine Lam, owner of the Kalamazoo PR firm Lam Associates and former reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazete; Richard McLellan, retired senior partner at the law firm Dykema Gossett; Matt McLogan, former TV reporter and government relations manager for Grand Valley State University; Helen Taylor, director of the Michigan Chapter of the Nature Conservancy; Margaret Trimmer-Hartley, superintendent of the University Prep Science & Math Academy and former Detroit Free Press education reporter; and Ken Winter, former editor and publisher of the Petoskey News Review.
