Azimuth Media and Pulitzer Center produce second interactive website on HIV AIDS in Caribbean

Since last August, Azimuth Media's Steve Sapienza has been working in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and bluecadet interactive to produce two flash-based web reporting projects that focus on HIV in the Caribbean. The two projects were funded with grants from the MAC AIDS Fund and involved the collaboration of many talented hands -- from writers and editors, to flash designers, videojournalists, photojournalists, translators, and even musicians (check the credits.)

The latest website, HOPE: Living & Loving with HIV in Jamaica, features the work of award-winning poet and writer Kwame Dawes, who recently made five trips back home to Jamaica to explore and write about the impact of HIV/AIDS on the island. The result of his visits is a powerful collection of stories told through poems, videos and photographs inspired by the people he met along the way.

Daljit Dhaliwal joins FOREIGN EXCHANGE as anchor

Accomplished international television journalist Daljit Dhaliwal is the new anchor of public television's FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

"It's increasingly difficult for Americans to get in-depth coverage of what's going on in the rest of the world unless it's a big breaking news story," said Ms. Dhaliwal. "The trend is to give audiences less of a global perspective precisely at a time when they need more. I'm thrilled to be the program's anchor."

FOREIGN EXCHANGE is a weekly half-hour international affairs public television series that began in 2005 and is entering its fourth season. The program was originally hosted by Newsweek International's Fareed Zakaria, who will be leaving the show to pursue other broadcast opportunities. We wish him the best

Muslim Comics Stand Up

Azimuth Media's Glenn Baker produced and directed "Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age" for the PBS series America at a Crossroads. It airs nationwide on May 11, 2008.

visit the film's website here --> http://standupthemovie.com/

Azimuth Media and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting produce interactive website with the Palm Beach Post

Twenty-five years after the AIDS epidemic was given a name, it is a plague with tangled ties between the wealthiest and the poorest countries in the hemisphere. In a three-part multi-media series, Palm Beach Post reporter Antigone Barton examines some of those ties, in the Dominican Republic, in Haiti and in Palm Beach County.

The Pulizter Center on Crisis Reporting and Azimuth Media teamed up with web design company Bluecadet Interactive to produce this flash-based web reporting project with the Palm Beach Post.

CPB ?rossroads Initiative Awards Grant for Film on Muslim and Arab Comedians

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has awarded producer Glenn Baker a production grant for STAND UP: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age (working title.) The program will explore the emergence of Muslim-American and Arab-American comedians in the wake of 9/11 by showcasing their humor and the everyday tribulations that provide material for their acts. It will chronicle their struggle to enter the American comic mainstream as they take on stereotypes about Middle Easterners and terrorism. ?heir stories offer unique insights into an alternate take on the American Dream, says Baker. ?ut mostly these guys will make you laugh.

Ranging from devout Muslims to secular provocateurs, these comics embody the diversity of America? large Middle Eastern population. Following in the footsteps of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and Margaret Cho, they are using stand-up comedy to make a case for their inclusion in the American public square.

STAND UP will be broadcast on PBS in 2007 as part of the ?merica at a Crossroads series.

For more information contact Glenn Baker: glenn[at]azimuthmedia.org or 202.797.5265

FOREIGN EXCHANGE with Fareed Zakaria Broadcasts to Top Ten TV markets in U.S.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE, a half-hour, weekly, global affairs series was picked up this week by PBS stations in Los Angeles (KCET,) Detroit (WTVS,) and Washington, DC (WETA.) The series currently airs on 131 PBS stations nationwide, including nine out of the top 10 television markets in the US.

Visit the FOREIGN EXCHANGE website - www.foreignexchange.tv - to find out where to watch the series in your area.

The series is produced by Azimuth Media in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting.

For more information contact Mark Sugg: mark[at]azimuthmedia.org or 202.797.5272

Azimuth Receives R&D Grant from CPB's ?rossroads Initiative for Show on Muslim and Arab Comics

Azimuth Media has been awarded a research and development grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for STAND UP: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age (working title.) The program will explore the emergence of Muslim-American and Arab-American comedians in the wake of 9/11 by showcasing their humor and the everyday tribulations that provide material for their acts. It will chronicle their struggle to enter the American comic mainstream as they take on stereotypes about Middle Easterners and terrorism. Ranging from devout Muslims to secular provocateurs, these comics embody the diversity of America? large Middle Eastern population. Following in the footsteps of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and Margaret Cho, they are using stand-up comedy to make a case for their inclusion in the American public square.

Read the CPB Crossroads press release anouncing R&D grant recipients here

For more information contact Glenn Baker: glenn[at]azimuthmedia.org or 202.797.5265

Azimuth Media producing new TV Series with Fareed Zakaria

Azimuth Media in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting is producing the forthcoming PBS half-hour weekly series called Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria . Visit the FOREIGN EXCHANGE website - www.foreignexchange.tv - for more information and to watch our promotional reel.

For more information contact Mark Sugg: mark[at]azimuthmedia.org or 202.797.5272