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Voter Funded Media

Lecture | November 17 | 4 p.m. | Moses Hall, Harriss Room #119

Featured Speaker: Mark Latham, Founder, VoterMedia.org

Sponsor: Governmental Studies, Institute of

We can support public interest journalism with our tax funds, by letting voters allocate the funding to competing media organizations. This would prevent the government from controlling the publicly funded media and their messages. Such a system has been implemented for three years at the University of British Columbia's student union, and tested in Vancouver's 2008 civic election. Each voter community can fund its own media: each municipality, state, country, student union, labor union, corporation etc. The city of Berkeley may be a good fit for the next implementation.


*BIO* Mark Latham received his PhD in Finance from MIT in 1984, supervised by Fischer Black and Robert C. Merton. He was Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley, until 1989. From 1989 to 1995 he worked for the New York investment banks Salomon Brothers and Merrill Lynch, mainly on derivatives arbitrage trading in Tokyo equity markets. Funded with his Wall Street earnings, he has dedicated himself since 1996 to improving the governance of corporations and democracies. He currently serves on the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission's Investor Advisory Committee, as a representative of individual investors.

Event Contact: 510-642-1474

Documents: Sample ballot on beta test website, PAPER: Global Voter Media Platform