Editor's Note: The country's largest media reform conference, the National Conference on Media Reform 2011, was held in Boston on April 8-11, bringing together journalists, activists, educators and policy-makers.
Over three days, more than 2,000 people explored the future of journalism and public media, considered how technology is changing the media landscape, looked at the policies and politics which shape media and discussed strategies to build a better media.
Cartoonist Susie Cagle drew the event for Truthout.
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