Answers about Positive Space Media, founder Hunter Haselrig, the company's structure, operating companies, editorial standards, and governance.
High school students are considered through referrals or direct invitations from Positive Space Media. The program team reviews candidates and issues personal codes to invited applicants. The application includes a personal statement, an introductory video, and examples of creative work where available. Candidates advancing through review are invited to an interview before admission decisions are made.
Read how admissions workPositive Space Media is a communications and information company. It develops, acquires, and operates businesses across news, technology, entertainment, and strategic communications that help people turn information into understanding, participation, and opportunity. Communication is infrastructure: what people know shapes the decisions they make and the opportunities they can pursue.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Positive Space Media operates Axis News Network, HUMAN Ideas Company, and Positive Space Productions. Each company has a defined role across news, strategic communications, creative work, and original production. Specialized technology and software solutions supplied by 1210 Technology support selected activities across the ecosystem.
Axis News Network is a news and information company producing original reporting, research, analysis, video, data, and digital products. Its editorial coverage examines developments across public affairs, science, industry, finance, and society. The network also develops local reporting and journalism education initiatives, advancing its central belief that credible journalism is essential public infrastructure.
Axis operates eight principal editorial areas covering Politics, Technology, Climate, Space, Health, Finance, Sports, and Education. Each develops specialized coverage while contributing to a broader understanding of the relationships between government, scientific research, industry, economic activity, and public life. HBCU-focused reporting remains an important part of the network's education coverage.
Axis Politics covers government, public policy, elections, international affairs, and the exercise of political authority. Its reporting examines how public decisions are developed and implemented, with attention to their consequences for economic activity, government programs, and communities.
Axis Technology covers artificial intelligence, advanced computing, software, cybersecurity, robotics, digital infrastructure, and emerging research. Its reporting follows technological development across universities, industry, government, and the commercial environments influencing innovation.
Axis Climate covers environmental science, energy, natural resources, conservation, and infrastructure resilience. Its reporting examines how changing environmental conditions influence economic development and how public agencies, researchers, and industry respond through policy, investment, and technology.
Axis Sports covers athletic competition and the organizations surrounding professional and collegiate sports. Its reporting follows athletes, teams, leagues, and major events alongside developments in sports business, technology, media, medicine, and culture.
Axis Health covers biomedical research, public health, healthcare systems, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical innovation. Its work connects scientific developments with the organizations, policies, and resources influencing healthcare delivery and human well-being.
Axis Space covers exploration, aerospace, scientific research, satellite systems, national security, and the space economy. Its reporting follows the organizations, technologies, and investments advancing space activity and examines their wider significance for infrastructure, scientific discovery, and economic development.
Axis Finance covers financial markets, banking, investment, economic policy, capital allocation, and developments across business and industry. Its reporting examines the movement of financial resources and the conditions influencing economic activity across public and private sectors.
Axis Education covers schools, universities, academic research, education policy, workforce development, and the relationship between learning and economic opportunity. Its work includes dedicated attention to historically Black colleges and universities and their contributions to research, professional development, culture, and community life.
Axis HBCU is the network's focused editorial coverage of historically Black colleges and universities. It examines academic development, research, athletics, alumni achievement, and the economic and cultural contributions of HBCUs within the broader education landscape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pathways is a product family developed by 1210 Technology for intelligence, government procurement, and applied education. Its three platforms connect relevant knowledge with analytical tools, professional workflows, and learning environments designed to support informed participation.
Pathways Intelligence organizes sources, entities, events, relationships, historical records, and emerging signals within a connected analytical framework. It supports research into organizational activity, industry developments, public investment, and the relationships influencing economic and institutional decisions.
Pathways Pursuit is a procurement and government contracting operating system. It supports opportunity discovery, solicitation review, pipeline management, proposals, deadlines, documentation, and compliance, bringing the work involved in pursuing government contracts into a coordinated environment.
Pathways EDU is an applied education and workforce-development platform supporting guided learning, research, practical exercises, and professional preparation. Its applications connect academic knowledge with real-world processes, including public procurement and institutional operations.
1210 Technology provides software, data infrastructure, digital systems, and related technology solutions supporting selected products and operations across the Positive Space Media ecosystem. Its work includes newsroom technology and information services for Axis News Network, alongside the development of its own Pathways product family.
Technology supports the production, distribution, organization, and practical application of knowledge. Digital publishing makes reporting accessible, while structured information systems help people examine developments across sources. Complementary software and educational platforms extend relevant knowledge into research, professional activity, and learning.
Local reporting helps communities understand the public decisions, organizations, and economic developments affecting their lives. Sustained coverage establishes a record of events and provides context for evaluating change over time. Its value extends into accountability, economic understanding, and public participation.
A news desert is a community with limited access to consistent, original local reporting. Such conditions can arise when newspapers close, newsroom resources decline, or important local subjects receive insufficient coverage. The resulting gaps reduce the availability of reliable information about public affairs and community development.
Axis develops local reporting initiatives and collaborates with universities, community organizations, and other partners to strengthen coverage and professional capacity. Its approach connects reporting with research, digital information services, and programs supporting the development of emerging journalists.
Axis Fellows is a journalism and workforce-development initiative connecting students with professional newsroom experience. The program establishes a pathway beginning in high school and extending through HBCUs and other universities into reporting and related media careers. Participants develop skills through mentorship, research, reporting assignments, and digital production.
Reporting helps communities understand investment, public spending, infrastructure, regional industries, and workforce conditions. Coverage of these developments contributes to the knowledge available to residents, businesses, educators, and organizations making decisions about economic participation and growth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.