Incorporated in 1990 and led by award-winning filmmaker Robert Clem, New Media is a publicly supported nonprofit organization whose purpose is to develop and produce educational and cultural programming for public television and radio broadcast, with subsequent distribution in video format for educational users. New Media productions have been supported by a wide range of foundations,
corporate sponsors, individuals, the National Endowment for the Humanities(NEH), the Southern Humanities Media Fund, and nine state programs of the NEH, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.