mission
vision
purpose
The mission of Equal Access Public Media and its associated publications is to enrich the lives of the diverse community of disabled and chronically ill community, allies and caregivers through accessible news products and publications, and to create accessible jobs through those products and publications in the journalism industry.
To accomplish our mission and purpose, Equal Access Public Media will publish and distribute news products in accordance with high nonpartisan journalistic standards and as a public service to our members and our community. We will represent our audience and our community in the mission and in the common purpose of educating and informing the public through producing high quality accessible news and creating high quality, stable accessible jobs in the news industry.
To serve this broad community, Equal Access Public Media news products and publications will cover a variety of news topics of interest using accessible technology, accessible design, and web accessibility principles. In keeping with our mission, EAPM will create accessible jobs through those products so that both our newsrooms and leadership positions are accessible to people with disabilities, chronic illness, caregivers, and allies.
What does
“make news accessible”
actually mean?
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Some people read the news. Some people watch the news. Some people listen to the news. Using text, audio, and video together – making a piece multimedia – to convey the same piece of news so the audience has options of how to access that piece of news allows more people to get that news. Some people also need closed captioning on video. Some people need sign language translation.
Some people need simple quick facts pulled out from a news story. Some people need a transcript of audio or video. Some people need an audio translation of an article.
When EAPM includes all these other ways to access news, it’s called being multimodal.
Together, this is multimedia
multimodal news.
And EAPM will never put it behind a paywall, because accessibility also means everyone, regardless of their ability to pay, should be able to get the news.
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What our publications do:
• Produce national news coverage that takes a deeper look at questions and answers about what’s going on in society, government, and our communities. Our goal is to educate and inform our audience.
Big news stories are hard to digest, and we believe our audience deserves a quality breakdown and understanding of the news, especially with big, breaking news stories. That means, we may not always be first to cover it, but we’ll be there to inform.
When it comes to deep investigations, EAPM believes our duty is to get to the bottom of the subject and reveal the facts. It means being careful and cautious. Facts won’t please everyone, and we know that. But our audience deserves a watchdog who will get those investigations done.
• Redistribute news from partnered local or niche publications using the EAPM multimedia multimodal model.
• Use technology, including AI, in a transparent way to produce multimedia multimodal news.
What our publications don’t do:
• Put news behind a paywall.
• Opinions and editorials.
• Advocacy.
• Political endorsements.
• Product endorsements.
• News authored by artificial intelligence.
Interested in partnering with us?
Nonprofit news entities interested in using our model of news accessibility can reach out to us for more information.
As we begin publishing our news products, we may also seek partner nonprofit publications.