Hi friends 💜,
If you're reading this, you're already part of the story we've been dreaming into being.
For a long time, we've watched the makers we love do beautiful, essential work in relative isolation. Filmmakers, journalists, podcasters, photographers, writers, musicians, publishers... pouring their gifts into the world one project at a time. Often stretched thin. Often wondering who else out there is fighting the same fight. 🌱
We wanted to change that.
Today, we get to. 🌅
Welcome to the Positive Media Association, it’s officially open 🎉. ✨The PMA is a global industry association, the professional home for every positive media maker on the planet. Not a chat room. Not a feed to scroll. A real association of thousands of makers and organizations, gathered under one virtual roof, with support for funding and distribution, access to experts, and lending each other craft and the kind of hard-won wisdom that usually takes a career to earn. 🌍🤝
We built this for you...
We built this because we believe, in our bones, that the work of we goes further than the work of one. That your reach multiplies when it's woven with everyone else's. That the media we make becomes the world we all live in. 💛
Come create with us. Bring your work, your questions, your fierce ideas, your hard-earned lessons, your best failures. Amplifying reach. ⚡Multiplying voices. That's what happens in a room this full of the right people. 🎉
Joining is simple, and it matters. Every voice added to this collective multiplies what's possible for all of us. 🌍
Stronger together, never alike. Imagine what will happen as we all start working together.
Because media shapes the world we wake up in tomorrow.
With love and radical hope,
Roger Briggs & Amanda Sanders
Positive Media Association 💜➕🎥🎙️🎮📱📰📺🎸💜
The Benefits of Membership
When you join the Positive Media Association, you become part of a global collective working to amplify media that informs, inspires, and illuminates. Your membership opens the door to:
A spotlight on your work — seen by fellow creators, distributors, and funders looking for exactly what you make.
A listing in the Association Directory — your place among the makers shaping positive media worldwide, discoverable to collaborators and supporters.
Live webinars with people who've done it — learn directly from experts across every corner of media making and distribution.
First access to the Positive Media Lab — leading-edge insight and research as it's created.
Real collaborators, not just contacts — share resources and join forces to amplify one another's reach.
Media Campfires — open-ended gatherings built for real connection and fresh ideas.
Social Media Workshops — swap the best practices and hard-won tricks that are moving the needle right now.
Distribution channels you couldn't unlock alone — PMA-facilitated relationships with distributors, platforms, and outlets that put your work in front of audiences most makers can't reach on their own.
A real path to funding — education on where the money is, a living database of active funding sources, direct relationships with funders, and pooled-project opportunities that unlock initiatives too big for any one maker to fund alone.
Stronger together, never alike. Imagine what could happen if we all started working together. We can't wait to welcome you in.
Who the Association is for…
The Positive Media Association [PMA] is built for makers and media organizations of every size and every discipline. You’ll find yourself here if you’re a:
Creator — writer, filmmaker, journalist, podcaster, photographer, illustrator, showrunner, songwriter, game designer, animator, XR and immersive artist, social-first storyteller
Producer — studios, production companies, indie shops, in-house content teams, newsrooms
Distributor — publishers, platforms, networks, aggregators, syndicators, festival programmers, exhibitors, booksellers
Funder — grantmakers, foundations, patrons, investors, sponsors, crowdfunders
Educator — journalism and film schools, media-literacy programs, university faculty, K-12 teachers, workshop and camp leaders
Researcher or Scholar — academic and independent researchers, critics, media analysts, ethicists, historians of the craft
Ally — associations, unions, guilds, nonprofits, policy advocates, tech partners, service providers, and anyone whose work makes positive media possible
Membership is the door, not the gate.
Events
The PMA is opening its doors with regular virtual events designed to support every member: expert sessions, craft roundtables, and member spotlights. No airfare, no gatekeepers, no cameras-off silence. Just the room you've been looking for, on a schedule that fits your work. First dates land in the next issue.
On Air
Meet On Air, our new expert seminar series. Live conversations with the makers, thinkers, and builders shaping positive media, and a seat saved for you.
2nd & 4th Wednesdays of every month
starting in October
8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 3 PM UTC
time moves with daylight savings for Pacific time zone
Every On Air session is built to be useful, not just interesting. Expect an honest conversation with an expert guest who knows their craft, room for your questions, and a few ideas you can carry straight into your own work. Come to listen, come to ask, or come to meet the people doing the work alongside you. Every seat is a good one. Bring a question. Bring a friend. We'll see you On Air.
Know an expert who should be On Air? Reply to this email and tell us who and how to contact them.
Member Spotlight
Every event, we hand the mic to one member of the PMA. The Member Spotlight is a short profile of a maker or organization doing the work: what they're building, who it's for, what they've learned along the way, and the one hard-won lesson they'd want other members to steal. It's peer to peer, and the point is to make sure the wisdom that usually stays in one studio, one newsroom, or one head gets shared across the whole association.
Every Spotlight also produces something the member takes with them: a short, curated profile video that lives on in the Association Directory. It makes the Directory smarter about who's here and what they're building, so the association can match members with the tools, resources, and other makers that would actually move their projects forward. Featured once, findable forever.
Positive Media Community Update
2nd Tuesday of every month
9 AM PDT / Noon EDT / 4 PM UTC
time moves with daylight savings for Pacific time zone
Zoom link https://dub.sh/communityupdate
Join us for our next Positive Media Community Update on Tuesday, October 13 at 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern / 5 pm UK. It's a 60-minute gathering, and we hold it on the 2nd Tuesday of every month — same time, every time, so it's easy to make it part of your rhythm. Get a front row seat to everything that’s happening in the Positive Media Lab, Positive Media Association, and overall positive media community.
Why September 13?
We're launching on September 13th because it's Positive Thinking Day, a holiday established in 2003 to encourage people to cultivate an optimistic outlook and notice how it changes their day, their relationships, and their health. It's a small, cheerful holiday with a serious idea underneath: what you feed your mind shapes what you make of your life.
That's the whole thesis of positive media. Fear-driven content is easy to make and easy to sell, but a steady diet of it wears down the people who take it in. Positive media does the opposite work. It informs without cornering you, inspires without lying to you, and illuminates instead of alarms. Positive Thinking Day is one day. Positive media is what makes it possible to think that way the other 364.
#PositiveThinkingDay #PositiveThinking #ThinkPositive #PositiveVibes #PositiveMedia
So today, we open the doors. If you make media, fund it, teach it, study it, distribute it, or stand with the people who do, the room is finally here. Come find your people.
