Alan Dachman

Alan Dachman received the ACM's Dirk Koning-George Stoney Award for Humanistic Communication in 1994, recognition that placed his work in the tradition of people who argued for public access television as a civic and democratic practice rather than simply a cable franchise requirement. The Dirk Koning-George Stoney Award in that era went to practitioners, advocates, and scholars whose contributions gave community media its intellectual and civic grounding, and Alan's receipt of it in 1994 reflects work during the field's formative expansion years.

The specific details of his station affiliations and organizational roles are not well documented in publicly available sources, but the award places him in a significant cohort: the people the field chose to honor in the years when public access was becoming a national movement with shared values and professional infrastructure.