Does CML sponsor a national conference?
National conferences require a huge commitment of an organization’s staff time, energy and funding. CML cannot undertake such an effort every year alone so in 1997, CML was one of four founders of the Partnership for Media Education (PME), a coalition of organizations and individuals whose goal would be to organize and raise funds for a regular national conference. Following successful events in Colorado Springs (1998), St. Paul (1999) and Toronto (2000), the PME evolved in 2001 into the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA), a national professional membership organization established to advance the field of media literacy education in the United States, including the holding of a national conference every two years. CML invites all persons interested in media literacy to join the AMLA and attend the national conference.
