Company
What is Positive Space Media?
Positive Space Media is a communications and information company. It develops, acquires, and operates businesses and platforms across news, technology, entertainment, and strategic communications, while creating content and intellectual property of its own. The organizing idea is that communication is infrastructure: what people know shapes the decisions they make and the opportunities they can pursue, so Positive Space Media builds the companies, platforms, tools, and stories that make what matters easier to find and use.
What is the mission of Positive Space Media?
The mission is expressed in three commitments: inform, inspire, and connect. Inform means making useful knowledge easier to find and understand. Inspire means creating stories that expand what people believe is possible. Connect means building pathways between people, institutions, ideas, and opportunity. Every company and platform in the group is measured against those three commitments.
What does Positive Space Media actually do?
Positive Space Media operates a portfolio of companies rather than a single product. Across that portfolio the work falls into four areas: news and media, where editorial platforms help people understand the industries and institutions shaping the world around them; technology and intelligence, where tools organize knowledge and clarify choices; communications and creativity, where stories, campaigns, intellectual property, and experiences make important ideas visible; and emerging economies, where the company builds pathways into sectors such as space, climate, and health that are creating new forms of work and participation.
How is Positive Space Media structured?
Positive Space Media is the parent company. Its operating companies sit beneath it, each with its own focus, leadership, and audience: Axis News Network for news and editorial, HUMAN Ideas Company for communications and creative work, and Positive Space Productions for film and video production. Axis News Network in turn operates a set of subject-focused verticals. The companies are run as distinct businesses, and they share standards, infrastructure, and a common mission rather than a single editorial voice or client roster.
When was Positive Space Media founded?
Positive Space Media was founded in 2017 by Hunter Haselrig. Since then it has grown through successive phases of program development, technology investment, and portfolio expansion. The current multi-company structure reflects deliberate long-term development rather than rapid diversification.
Who founded Positive Space Media?
Positive Space Media was founded in 2017 by Hunter Haselrig, an American entrepreneur focused on media, communications, technology, and economic participation. He is the company's Founder and leads the development of its businesses, platforms, content, and intellectual property. More information is available on the Founder page.
What industries does Positive Space Media operate in?
News and journalism, media and entertainment, strategic communications and advertising, film and video production, technology and decision-support tools, and the emerging sectors its editorial verticals cover, including space, climate, and health. The company operates across these sectors deliberately, on the view that they are structurally interdependent: technology without communications context, or media without economic infrastructure, delivers less than either achieves in combination.
Where is Positive Space Media headquartered?
Positive Space Media is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois; Birmingham, Alabama; and Las Vegas, Nevada. Chicago anchors the company's media, communications, and technology work. Birmingham anchors its Southern market presence and community-focused programs. Operating from three cities reflects a commitment to building institutional infrastructure in more than one American market at a time.
Is Positive Space Media a nonprofit?
No. Positive Space Media is a for-profit company. The structure is intentional: durable infrastructure and sustained impact require economic models that do not depend on philanthropic subsidy. The company generates revenue through its media, communications, production, and technology businesses and reinvests in portfolio development from that base, while running programs with civic and community benefit goals.
Our Companies
What companies operate under Positive Space Media?
Three companies operate under Positive Space Media. Axis News Network is the news and editorial company, and it runs five subject-focused verticals: Axis Climate, Axis Sports, Axis Health, Axis Space, and Axis HBCU. HUMAN Ideas Company is the communications and creative company. Positive Space Productions is the film and video production company. Each is a distinct business with its own focus and audience, operating under a shared set of standards.
What is Axis News Network?
Axis News Network is the news and editorial company of Positive Space Media. It builds editorial platforms that help people understand the industries, institutions, and developments shaping the world around them. Rather than operating as a single general-interest newsroom, Axis News Network is organized into subject-focused verticals, each covering a sector deeply enough to be genuinely useful to the people working in it and affected by it.
What are the Axis News Network verticals?
Axis News Network operates five verticals: Axis Climate, covering energy, the environment, resilience, and the industries responding to a changing climate; Axis Sports, covering the business, culture, and institutions of sport; Axis Health, covering health systems, research, care delivery, and the health economy; Axis Space, covering the space economy including launch, satellites, and exploration; and Axis HBCU, covering Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Each vertical is a distinct editorial brand sharing the network's standards, infrastructure, and corrections process.
What is Axis Climate?
Axis Climate is the Axis News Network vertical covering energy, the environment, resilience, and the industries and institutions responding to a changing climate. Its focus is on making a technically complex and fast-moving sector understandable to the people making decisions inside it, and on the economic and community consequences of those decisions.
What is Axis Sports?
Axis Sports is the Axis News Network vertical covering the business, culture, and institutions of sport, including the organizations, venues, media rights, and local economies built around them. It approaches sport as an institutional and economic subject rather than only as competition coverage.
What is Axis Health?
Axis Health is the Axis News Network vertical covering health systems, research, care delivery, and the health economy. Its emphasis is on making complex health information understandable and useful. Axis Health publishes journalism about health; it does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and its coverage should not be used as a substitute for care from a qualified professional.
What is Axis Space?
Axis Space is the Axis News Network vertical covering the space economy: launch, satellites, exploration, and the industries and forms of work forming around them. It reflects a broader interest across Positive Space Media in emerging sectors that are creating new pathways into participation and economic opportunity.
What is Axis HBCU?
Axis HBCU is the Axis News Network vertical covering Historically Black Colleges and Universities: their institutions, research, athletics, alumni networks, and economic footprint. It exists because these institutions are consequential and persistently under-covered, and because sustained, specific coverage of an institution is itself a form of infrastructure for the community around it.
What is HUMAN Ideas Company?
HUMAN Ideas Company is the communications and creative company of Positive Space Media. It works on brand strategy, institutional communications, campaigns, and intellectual property for organizations that need to communicate with clarity, authority, and scale. It serves external clients as well as supporting the group's own platform development. HUMAN Ideas Company has no role in Axis News Network editorial decisions, and a client relationship with HUMAN Ideas Company does not produce, prevent, or shape coverage.
What is Positive Space Productions?
Positive Space Productions is the film and video production company of Positive Space Media. It develops and produces film, video, and original content, and maintains the production capability behind the group's storytelling work. Its projects run from documentary and branded work to original intellectual property developed inside the company.
How do the companies connect to each other?
They share infrastructure, standards, and a mission, not a common editorial voice or a shared client list. Positive Space Media provides the platform layer the companies operate on, the governance framework they all answer to, and the long-term capital and strategy that let them build past a single project. Where the companies work together it is through arm's-length arrangements that are disclosed: production work commissioned from Positive Space Productions is credited, and any commercial relationship that touches editorial is labeled on the work itself.
Do the companies operate independently?
Operationally, yes. Each company sets its own priorities, makes its own day-to-day decisions, and is accountable for its own work. What is not independent is the standard: every company carrying a Positive Space Media brand is expected to meet the same requirements for accuracy, disclosure, privacy, accessibility, and responsible use of technology. Independence in operations and consistency in standards are the two halves of how the group is meant to work.
Standards + Compliance
What requirements come with a company being associated with Positive Space Media?
Every company that carries a Positive Space Media brand is expected to meet a shared set of internal standards: editorial independence from commercial relationships; accuracy, sourcing, and a published corrections practice; clear labeling of advertising, sponsorship, and any paid arrangement; disclosure of material uses of AI and human review of published work; responsible handling of personal information; accessibility of digital experiences; cleared rights and consent for production work; and disclosure of conflicts of interest, including conflicts arising between companies in the group. These are standards Positive Space Media holds its companies to. They are described here so the people who read, hire, and partner with those companies know what to expect and what to hold them to.
How is editorial independence protected across the group?
Axis News Network and its verticals make their own editorial decisions. Advertisers, sponsors, clients of HUMAN Ideas Company, production partners, and the parent company do not decide what is covered, what is published, or how a story is framed. Commercial teams do not have advance review of editorial coverage, and a commercial relationship is not a reason to publish a story or to withhold one. Where a story concerns Positive Space Media, one of its companies, or a party with a commercial relationship to the group, that relationship is disclosed inside the story.
What are the accuracy and corrections standards?
Editorial work is expected to be sourced, verifiable, and attributed, with claims traceable to a person, document, or dataset a reader could evaluate. When something published is wrong, the standard is to correct it promptly and visibly on the piece itself rather than silently amending it, with a note describing what changed and when. Corrections requests and factual disputes can be sent to legal@positivespacemedia.com and are routed to the responsible editorial team.
How are advertising, sponsorship, and sponsored content handled?
Paid content is labeled as paid content. Advertising, sponsorship, sponsored segments, branded content, and affiliate arrangements are expected to be identified clearly and close to the content itself, in language a reader understands without having to infer it. Sponsored work is visually and structurally distinguishable from editorial work. Sponsors do not receive approval rights over adjacent editorial coverage.
What are the standards for using AI across the companies?
AI is used across the group as a capability layer for research, production, and operations, under three requirements: a person is accountable for anything published; material AI involvement in a published work is disclosed; and AI output is not treated as a source. Generated text, imagery, audio, or video used in published work is expected to be identified as such. AI is not used to fabricate quotes, sources, imagery presented as documentary, or the appearance of a real person without consent.
What privacy and data standards apply across the companies?
Every company in the group is expected to collect only the information it needs, explain why it is collected, keep it no longer than necessary, and protect it appropriately. Personal information is not sold. Requests relating to personal data can be sent to privacy@positivespacemedia.com. The Privacy Policy describes how information is handled across Positive Space Media websites and platforms.
How are sources and confidential information handled?
Confidentiality commitments made to a source are honored by the editorial team that made them and are not overridden by commercial or parent-company interest. Confidential source material is handled on a need-to-know basis within the responsible newsroom and is not shared across the group's commercial companies. Anonymity is granted for a reason that is explained to readers, not as a default.
What standards apply to production and creative work?
Production work is expected to carry cleared rights before it is distributed: releases from participants, licenses for music, footage, and stills, and permissions for locations and trademarks that appear on screen. Documentary and non-fiction work is expected to represent participants and events accurately, and to disclose reenactment, composite, or generated material where it appears. Rights and licensing inquiries can be sent to licensing@positivespacemedia.com.
How are conflicts of interest between the companies managed?
Operating a news network alongside a communications company and a production company creates real conflicts, and the group's position is that they are managed by disclosure and separation rather than treated as nonexistent. Editorial teams are separated from commercial teams. Relationships that could reasonably affect how a story is read — a client relationship, a production credit, a shared investor, a personal interest — are disclosed within the work. When a conflict cannot be adequately disclosed or separated, the standard is to decline the work.
What accessibility standards apply?
Digital experiences across the group are expected to be usable by people with a range of abilities and assistive technologies, and accessibility is treated as ongoing work rather than a finished state. The Accessibility Statement describes the current commitment and how to report a barrier so it can be fixed.
Can other organizations use the Positive Space Media or Axis brand names?
No. The Positive Space Media, Axis, HUMAN Ideas Company, and Positive Space Productions names, logos, and marks may not be used to imply affiliation, endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship without written permission. Being covered by an Axis vertical, appearing in a production, or holding a commercial relationship with one company does not grant the right to use these marks. Permission and licensing requests go to licensing@positivespacemedia.com.
How do I raise a concern, correction, or complaint?
Corrections, factual disputes, governance questions, and legal or intellectual property matters go to legal@positivespacemedia.com. Privacy and personal-data requests go to privacy@positivespacemedia.com. Accessibility barriers can be reported through the Accessibility Statement page. Please include the specific page, story, or production involved so the concern reaches the responsible team.
Founder
Who is Hunter Haselrig?
Hunter Haselrig is the founder of Positive Space Media, a communications and information company operating across media, technology, entertainment, and strategic communications. He leads the development of businesses, platforms, content, and intellectual property designed to make complex subjects more understandable, useful, and accessible. His work is centered on the relationship between information, participation, and opportunity.
What is Hunter Haselrig's role at Positive Space Media?
He is the Founder of Positive Space Media and leads the company's overall direction. Through Positive Space Media he is building an integrated portfolio that includes news and editorial platforms, decision-support technology, creative production, strategic communications, and businesses focused on emerging sectors.
What areas does Hunter Haselrig work across?
Four. News and media: building editorial platforms that help people understand the industries, institutions, and developments shaping the world around them. Technology and intelligence: developing tools that organize knowledge, clarify choices, and help people move from discovery to informed action. Communications and creativity: creating stories, campaigns, intellectual property, and experiences that make important ideas visible and understood. Emerging economies: building pathways into sectors such as space, climate, and health that are creating new forms of work, participation, and economic opportunity.
What is the thinking behind the companies he builds?
In his own words, he is interested in the systems that determine what people can understand, what they can access, and what they are able to pursue, on the view that clear and useful knowledge can expand participation, improve decisions, and introduce people to possibilities they may not have known existed. The companies operate at different points within that system — some gather and distribute news, some turn knowledge into tools that guide decisions, others develop stories, communications, and experiences that move ideas into public life — and each is guided by the same mission: inform, inspire, and connect.
Where can I read Hunter Haselrig's writing?
Hunter publishes Ideas at positivespacemedia.com/founder/ideas, writing about information, participation, entrepreneurship, technology, media, culture, emerging economies, philanthropy, and the practical work of building companies and institutions. Ideas is personal writing from the founder. It is not Axis News Network reporting and is not subject to the network's editorial process.
What does Positive Space Media mean by communications infrastructure?
It refers to the underlying systems, platforms, channels, and institutional relationships that let information move between organizations, communities, and individuals with accuracy and scale. That includes publishing and distribution platforms, media channels, institutional messaging systems, and the technology layers beneath them. The premise is that the quality of communications infrastructure determines the quality of public understanding, which makes building it as consequential as building any other kind of infrastructure.
Why does Positive Space Media frame its work as infrastructure?
Because infrastructure is durable in a way products are not. Products are consumed; infrastructure is used and built upon. A campaign is a product, and a communications platform is infrastructure organizations rely on for years. A story is a product, and a functioning local news ecosystem is infrastructure that sustains participation across generations. The infrastructure frame is what makes the company's long time horizon coherent.
How does Positive Space Media approach storytelling?
As infrastructure. Stories are the systems through which communities understand themselves, institutions earn credibility, and participation becomes possible. The company invests in production capability, distribution systems, and audience relationships so that stories travel with their context intact rather than arriving stripped of it.
What technology is Positive Space Media developing?
Technology at Positive Space Media falls into two categories. The first is decision-support: tools that organize knowledge, clarify choices, and help people move from discovery to informed action. The second is platform infrastructure: the publishing, distribution, and operational systems the group's companies run on, including this site's interactive globe environment. Technology is treated as the material through which the media and communications work is delivered, not as a separate product line.
What role does AI play across the companies?
AI is used as a capability layer supporting research, content development, platform operations, and data analysis. The company's position is that AI amplifies the work of human communicators and producers rather than replacing them, and its use is governed by the group's AI standards: a person is accountable for published work, material AI involvement is disclosed, and AI output is not treated as a source.
What powers the Positive Space Media website?
The site is a standard web application built with React and Vite, using Three.js and React Three Fiber for its 3D environment and GSAP and Framer Motion for animation. The interactive globe runs on WebGL in any modern browser, with no download or special hardware required. It serves as both a navigation interface and a demonstration of the kind of spatial, experiential communication the company builds.
Ecosystem + Regions
What is the Positive Space Media ecosystem?
The ecosystem is the connected set of companies, platforms, and markets that make up the company's full operational scope. It has two dimensions. The first is the portfolio: Axis News Network and its verticals, HUMAN Ideas Company, and Positive Space Productions. The second is geographic: the markets where the company holds an active presence or a defined development program. Each part is meant to create value for the others through shared infrastructure, shared audiences, and shared standards.
What is the interactive globe on the homepage?
The globe is how Positive Space Media represents its geographic footprint. Each node corresponds to a market where the company holds an active presence or a defined development program. It functions as a navigation interface and as a statement of scope — an expression of the same idea the company sells, which is that communicating something well often means building an environment for it rather than describing it.
What regions does Positive Space Media operate in?
The current map includes Chicago and Birmingham as the company's two headquarters, along with Indianapolis, Washington D.C., and Las Vegas. Markets are selected on the basis of existing institutional relationships, program fit, and long-term strategic opportunity, and are activated when the conditions for building durable infrastructure are in place.
Does Positive Space Media operate internationally?
The current ecosystem map focuses on markets in the United States. The long-term intent is a platform with genuine institutional relationships and operating presence in significant markets, developed in depth rather than by planting flags.
General
How can organizations work with Positive Space Media?
Partnership, collaboration, and program development inquiries can be sent to partnerships@positivespacemedia.com. The company works with media organizations, technology companies, civic institutions, educational organizations, and economic development entities, and evaluates opportunities on alignment with its portfolio, the potential to create durable infrastructure value, and the quality of the institutional relationship. Note that a partnership or client relationship with any company in the group does not produce or influence Axis News Network coverage.
How can journalists and media organizations get in touch?
Journalists, researchers, documentary filmmakers, and media organizations seeking information about Positive Space Media, its companies, or its founder can reach the company at press@positivespacemedia.com. Please include your affiliation, the nature of the inquiry, and any relevant deadline.
Is Positive Space Media hiring?
The company periodically seeks people whose skills and values align with its work across news, communications, production, and technology, with particular interest in candidates drawn to infrastructure-oriented work. Introductions can be sent to careers@positivespacemedia.com with a description of your background and interests.
How can someone contact Positive Space Media?
General inquiries go to info@positivespacemedia.com. Partnerships go to partnerships@positivespacemedia.com, press to press@positivespacemedia.com, legal and corrections to legal@positivespacemedia.com, privacy requests to privacy@positivespacemedia.com, and rights and licensing to licensing@positivespacemedia.com. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and Birmingham, Alabama.
Where can I follow Positive Space Media and Hunter Haselrig?
The primary institutional presence is positivespacemedia.com. Positive Space Media maintains accounts on LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, and Medium, linked at the bottom of this page. Hunter Haselrig's own channels are linked from the Founder page at positivespacemedia.com/founder.
Where can I find the legal, privacy, and governance documents?
The Trust Center at positivespacemedia.com/trust-center collects them in one place: the Governance Framework, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Accessibility Statement, and this FAQ. The documents are maintained and updated as the company and its platforms evolve. Legal, privacy, compliance, and intellectual property questions go to legal@positivespacemedia.com.