From the start, Benton makes media education and capacity building for non-profit organizations central to its mission. Communicating in the '80s: New Options for the Nonprofit Community is a primer on new technology applications.
Benton collaborates with the Council on Foundations to produce the video, We Don't Fund Media, and the publication, How to Fund Media, to encourage and challenge foundations to support media projects.
National Highlights
- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Mark Fowler (1981-1987) famously declares TV is nothing more than a "toaster with pictures."
- The "network of networks" model is born, and the term “Internet” is used for the first time.