Anthony Riddle

Tony Riddle is a longtime community media leader whose career has moved through some of the country's most important urban access centers and national field organizations. Before joining BRIC in Brooklyn, Tony served as executive director of three major-market public access organizations: People TV in Atlanta, Minneapolis Telecommunications Network, and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. He later served as executive director of the Alliance for Community Media, representing the field nationally at a time when public access centers were navigating policy change, digital transition, and the continuing need to explain why local media access matters.

Tony's work belongs to the movement-leader side of community media. His career has connected station leadership, public access advocacy, producer support, media justice, and neighborhood-based storytelling in cities where access television gave residents a way to speak from inside their own communities. At BRIC, where he served for more than a decade as senior vice president of community media, he helped support one of the country's most visible community media programs, rooted in Brooklyn's cultural life, public conversations, and creative production.

His leadership matters because community media has always needed people who can hold both the local and national picture at once. Anthony's work has helped producers, organizations, and field leaders understand access not simply as channels or facilities, but as public space for voice, culture, accountability, and community power. In that sense, his career helps tell a larger story about community media as a justice-centered practice: built in neighborhoods, defended through policy, and sustained by people who believe communities should have the means to represent themselves.