Our Work

The Fight for Better Media Begins Here

A strong democracy depends on media that inform and engage. Free Press is building a nationwide movement for media that serve the public interest. Through education, organizing and advocacy, Free Press promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, hard-hitting journalism and universal access to communications.

Money, Media, and Elections

Learn More »

Fighting for your right to communicate online. Connecting everyone to high-speed,
affordable Internet.

Learn More »

Working to strengthen journalism, expand public media and fight media consolidation

Learn More »

The Latest

Subscribe via RSS

citizensinundated_paper2.jpg

Democracy Under Threat

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has already picked a winner in the 2012 elections: TV broadcasters.

Companies like CBS Corp., News Corp. and Sinclair Broadcast Group are already dividing the spoils of an election year that will see unprecedented spending on political ads.

The Onslaught Is Coming to a TV Near You

If Minnesotans flip on their TVs right now, they're likely to see at least one — a political ad slinging mud at a presidential candidate.

After Outcry, ASU Lifts Blocking of Change.org

On Friday night, Arizona State University (ASU) responded to thousands of complaints from ASU students and Free Press activists and stopped blocking student access to the popular petition website Change.org.

Media Minutes_2009 logo

Media Minutes: February 3, 2012

Six months into Comcast’s FCC-mandated program to provide low-income households with affordable broadband, communities are finding it difficult to access the offer. And police in Oakland, Calif., arrested seven credentialed journalists during an Occupy protest.

Public Media: Still on the Chopping Block

Last November Free Press released On the Chopping Block: State Budget Battles and the Future of Public Media, an inventory of dramatic state-level funding cuts to public broadcasting.

Take Action

Money, Media, and Elections

Don't Let Broadcasters Keep You in the Dark!

Act Now

University of Censorship

Victory! Arizona State Stops Blocking the Internet

Learn more

broadcast policy

The FCC is reviewing its media ownership rules and needs to hear from you. Tell the FCC we need rules that serve the public, not big broadcasters.

Act Now

NCMR2013

Our next National Conference for Media Reform will be held in Denver on April 5–7, 2013.

Please mark your calendar; we can't wait to see you in Colorado!

Learn More

Freepress.net is a project of Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund. Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund do not support or oppose any candidate for public office, and we are a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media.
Massachusetts Office: 40 Main St., Suite 301, Florence, MA 01062 – Ph 877.888.1533 – Fax 413.585.8904
Washington Office: 501 Third St. NW, Suite 875, Washington, DC 20001 – Ph 202.265.1490 – Fax 202.265.1489